{"id":109499,"date":"2019-08-20T09:38:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T06:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/ke\/?p=109499"},"modified":"2019-08-20T09:12:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T06:12:57","slug":"ali-kiba-explains-ditching-music-for-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/ali-kiba-explains-ditching-music-for-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Ali Kiba explains ditching music for football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tanzanian artist, Ali Kiba recently paused music for football and he explains why.<\/p>\n<p>The bongo star took a short break off music to venture into the world of football but confirms he is still fully committed to music.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BuTS7-jhwNG\/<\/p>\n<p>It is after he went under in his song releases that got fans speculating he has ditched music for football. Others believed his Kenyan wife, Amina Khalef was behind his melt down.<\/p>\n<p>However, speaking to Burundi-based media &#8216;Fanny&#8217; he denounced having dropped music for football further stating that he remains fully committed to music.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/ByP-TESBSpN\/<\/p>\n<p>Kiba explains, football was in a bid to promote his energy drink business and also to give a chance to fellow artists to grow their brands too.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No niliji-engage na football kwa sababu ya business, am a businessman now, lakini vile vile nafanya muziki, niko serious kabisaa, am musician, am not a footballer. Niliji-engage tu na football kwa sababu ya business yangu ya energy drink<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tanzanian artist, Ali Kiba recently paused music for football and he explains why. The bongo star took a short break off music to venture into the world of football but confirms he is still fully committed to music. https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BuTS7-jhwNG\/ It is after he went under in his song releases that got fans speculating he has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6063,"featured_media":109508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[310],"tags":[106521,106522,20],"class_list":["post-109499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-ali-kiba-ditching-music-for-football-news","tag-ali-kibas-energy-drink-news","tag-ghafla-entertainment-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ali Kiba explains ditching music for football - Ghafla! 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