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FAST RISING STAR 2FRESH UNLEASHES DATE FOR NEW SINGLE The Wedding hit maker 2Fresh in an interview with Jay Smart has officially announced the date in which he is releasing his much awaited song "Obaa". The Afrobeat/HighLife singer has wet the appetite of his fans couple of months ago as he dropped a snippet of himself at the studio recording a new song.Since then, his fans have been calling for the song yet the postponment. Finding a suitable time as planned by management, 2Fresh has announced his intention of dropping the song on 22nd of February, 2020. The song which by content wise, is not too far from the brand 2Fresh. Again, addresses love issues with high sense of sentiment. The song is produced by award winning beat maker and a record producer Datbeatgod and features another music finest Genfi.  This is regarded as good news to both fans and music lovers as we all wait patiently for the song. Coming from 2Fresh, expect nothing but something well organized t...

Actress Jessica Larny strips naked publicly Ghanaian actress, Jessica Larny, has set users of the photo-sharing app, Instagram, on fire with the release of nude photos of herself. The actress flaunting her noticeable contours and butts, posed seductively on a motorbike while covering her boobs. Confidently showing off her body to her 28.5K followers on Instagram, she captioned the naked photo 'Beauty and the beast 2020.' Obviously, some of her followers who are not thrilled at the release of the naked photo blasted the 'Stalemate' actress and described her actions as an "attention-seeker". However, Miss Larny who seems not perturbed by the attacks also hit back at her critics with a stern warning. "If you do not understand art, don't come and comment crap on my post. Read more about art and learn swiftly," she posted on her Instagram page. Meanwhile, the photo which has been loved by over 750 people has colleague actresses M...

BOTH LYNX AND MYSELF HAVE THE RIGHT TO USE OUR WORKS. Multiple award winning musician, Mzvee took a sabbatical leave according to former management Lynx Entertainment. Former management in the sense that, at a point in time of her musical break, Lynx Entertainment and Mzvee announced to the public in a press statement of their mutual contract termination even though the public was not detailed why the termination of contract. The female musician who was effortfully reigning as the major female artiste in the Ghanaian music scene, in about some past six months was not loud and with it related rumours and controversies as at 2019. It was of great surprise and joy as she bounced back in January 2020 with a dancehall sensation " Sheriff" a good song by all standard just to announce her presence and coming back. Upon numerous Interviews to promote the piece she told her fans and the general public what took her away from active music even to the extent of parting ways with ...

Ama Rasta's Act at Ghamro's Office, Akosua Agyapong Is Behind. The president of the Ghana Music Rights Organization (GHAMRO), Rex Omar has asserted that the recent happening that we saw Ghanaian musician, Ama Rasta curse GHAMRO over unpaid royalties was carefully made up by disgruntled Ghanaian musician Akosua Agyapong. Speaking in an interview with Happy FM’s Dr. Cann on the Showbiz Xtra aired on Saturdays, he stated: “Akosua Agyapong was the mastermind behind this occurrence. I was present at GHAMRO’s office when Ama Rasta agreed to wait for a while to be settled. However, sometime after she had agreed, she had the media with her at the premises of GHAMRO showing clearly that this was staged”. According to him, Akosua Agyapong along with her followers are doing all they can to destroy GHAMRO’s image. He furthered that this was as a result of their frustration of not being able to set up a rival organization that will take money for musicians. “Akosua Agyapong a...

RnB singer, Akon has named Sarkodie as the only Ghanaian singer ‘at the top.’ The US singer was asked at a press conference Sunday to name three Ghanaian artistes who are putting the West African country on the map. But in response, Akon noted that the same question has been asked wherever he goes in Africa. He said there are over 50 countries in Africa and “I cannot know them all.” “I only know them when the songs get to the top, and in Ghana the one that has reached the top is Sarkodie,” he told journalists. The African-American artiste is in Ghana for the “Year of Return.” The initiative was launched by President Nana Akufo-Addo to get blacks in the diaspora to visit Ghana to appreciate the roots and the African culture. Source: Myjoyonline.com

ONE WEEKEND, THREE SHOWS, THREE REGIONS. With a critical analysis over the year under review, major artiste worked very hard making the year 2019 a challenging one. A name that wouldn't be left out when fetching out the names of musicians that really did well adding their quota to the industry and the Nation at large is Ponobiom.       A year which he toured Europe, featured couple of international artistes on his UPPNESS COLLECTION album. Further proving his capabilities this Christmas Eve, a survey indicates that Ponobiom is among the few musicians headlining and playing a lot of shows. The survey however, record that he is the only artiste that has done the ubelievable by playing three shows within one week at three substantial regions. It is very shocking as everyone asks how?? The Uptown Energy Boss over the weekend has played three shows in three different Regions. Firstly,  he performed at ALL WHITE PARTY held at Lawns in Kumasi, the Ashati R...

  ANSWERS THAT CAN MAKE A LOT OF DIFFERENCE IN THE MOVIE INDUSTRY. There has been a lot of back and forth just as The Ministry of Arts and Culture announced their intention to build a film village for the movie sector.       Siting the Film Village was a bigger issue. Not that there was no space to carry out the project rather, the issue, whether it should be built in Eastern Region or Kumasi. This sparked a lot of argument between the Kumawood and the Ministry since they were of the view that Kumasi is where movie is produced more and not Eastern Region. Others were also of the view that Mr. Mark Okraku Mantey being the President of the Creative Arts wanted it built in his region. A region that is not recognized for movie making. Industry players added their voices and a lot more of issues. Eventually preventing it from happening. Just as we thought this is over, Movie Actor Kweku Elliott has added his voice generating another controversy though, he made sa...

Lady Jay releases sexy love song featuring Magnom titled “For You You You” The multi-talented   singer Lady Jay releases a hot new track and video titled For You You You. This is not your typical Lady Jay release as it brings out a new fun and sexy rhythm we have not seen her do before. Being an industry favorite, she is known for her wide range of beautiful tones and melodies which she exposes beautifully in this record. The track is produced and features multi award-winning artist Magnom which compliments her voice perfectly creating a magical hit record.  What is also more appealing is the visuals for the track. The video takes place in a house with a pool featuring some of the best female dancers we have seen in Ghana. Let us just say the video is very hot and sexy but in a cute way. You will definitely enjoy watching this video which was shot by Wahala Entertainment and directed by Wael H. To check out the video you can log on to YouTube and subscribe to ...

LiveSpot X Festival: Shatta Wale, Sarkodie, Tiwa Savage, others fail to perform Some Ghanaian and Nigerian artistes never performed on Sunday as advertised by organisers of the Livespot X Festival. The concert on December 8 had America-based rapper, Cardi B, as headline artiste. Supporting acts billed included Sarkodie, Shatta Wale, Patoranking, Tiwa Savage and a host of others. All the supporting acts were to perform before Cardi B finally climaxes the festival. However, the concert was marred by several technical hitches thus preventing Ghanaian artistes to mount the stage at their appointed times. While fans waited for close to an hour after the performance of Nigerian singer Sheyi Shay, Cardi B suddenly appeared on stage. Shatta Wale, Sarkodie, Patoranking, Tiwa Savage hadn’t performed before Cardi B was introduced. It is reported that Sarkodie and Shatta Wale refused to perform because organisers failed to go according to the plan.  Tiwa Savage and Pator...

 "Let Them That Have Ears Listen" Hip-Life artiste, Kofi Kinaata is known and have been awarded severally for his unique and inspiring style of composing. On October 18, 2019, he blessed the Ghanaian music space with another good piece titled Things Fall Apart. Another Hip-Life but content wise, seemed like a gospel. A song which has sparked a lot of controversy as to whether if a circular artiste sing a song that sound more like gospel, makes such individual a Gospel artiste too as well as other related issues. Popular Gospel musician, Celestine Donkor is asking all churches to play the song coming Sunday at their auditoriums and afterwards share benediction and close. At a post sighted by SmartNewsGh on her Instagram page, the Gospel musician explained how she at first did not regard the song until last weekend. A version of the song was covered by one upcoming talented female musician. The covered version of the song , which was making waves on social media drew h...

LADY PRAISES HUSBAND FOR STOPPING HER FROM KNEELING TO FEED HIM AT THEIR WEDDING. A Nigerian lady, Abiodun Babatunde, took to her Twitter handle this evening, to praise her newly-wed husband, Abidemi, for stopping her from kneeling to feed him during their traditional wedding. Abiodun basically has an issue with women kneeling for men and this is something her man knows and respects. She shared a video showing when her man stopped her from kneeling to feed him during their wedding and wrote This man knows! He knows my reservation about this kneeling down thing but my decision to do it because of culture. But he said No and insisted to everyone that I don't have to kneel to feed him. Ahn, I made the best choice! Watch the video shared below:

AKWABOA RELEASES VISUALS FOR NEW SINGLE "GANGSTER LOVE" Singer and songwriter, Akwaboah, is out with a new song ‘Gangsta Love’, one of the songs on his upcoming album. The video was directed by Rex and released on November 8 and has since garnered nearly 30,000 views. It is currently among the trending videos on YouTube. Before the release of the song, Akwaboah had posted a photo on his Instagram handle with the song title ‘Gangsta Love’ as a caption. The photo had sparked controversy on whether the singer had gotten married or not. Fans and some celebrity friends had rushed to the singer’s Instagram page to pour in congratulatory messages. However, the singer came out, after the release of the video to reveal the photo was shared to hint fans about the upcoming video. Akwaboah in this song plays the role of a heartbroken lover who is willing to take his lover even though she cheated on him. However, he finds his lover at the altar ready to say he...

YAA PONO WINS HIPLIFE ARTISTE AT THE JUST ENDED GHANA MUSIC AND ARTS AWARD EUROPE. Yaa Pono, one of  Ghana's finest rappers grabs an award at the just ended Ghana Music Awards And Arts Europe (GMAAE). This event took place during the weekend where Yaa Pono among those nominated for the HipLife category was ajudged the winner with his song "Obia Wo Ne Master" a song which featured his colleague artiste StoneBwoy.  This song by the out spoken Tema based rapper was a huge song just as it was released and with massive patronage from all angles especially from politicians. A good song by all standard considering the lyrics, delivery and production with the production credit going to KC Beatz. The song already has received numerous awards , noteable among them is the one he received at the Voldafon Ghana Music Awards (VGMA) and currently, that from the Ghana Music And Arts Award Europe (GMAAE) has also been added. This however tells how good and selling the p...

GHAMRO SAGA: Rex Omar is a liar!!! Veteran Musician Akosua Agyapong. Rex Omar is a liar!!! Veteran Musician Akosua Agyapong has called Rex Omar a liar!.. in a comments he made that the Attorney General rejected their offer that she (Akosua Agyapong) trying to bring out a new music Association. Speaking in an interview on Rite Chart Show on Rite Fm with Papa Attitude Akosua Agyapong disclose that the Attorney General has never rejected any offer from us that Ghana is too small but he Attorney General rather told us to come together to make peace in the music industry so Rex Omar should come again and stop deceiving the public.  T Kokoko hitmaker on her idea of putting injunction on Annual General Meeting (AGM), we can’t go to AGM without going through the new constitution, our team should have get a copy of the new constitution for us to check and bring our submissions for every mistake to be corrected before the meeting but he Rex Omar didn’t do that, she said Speaking t...

Patapaa To Headline 2019 Central Music Awards. Hiplife musician Justice Amoah popularly known as Patapaa is said to headline the 8th edition of the Central Music Awards and the 1st regional awards scheme in Ghana. Patapaa who is best known for his 2017 debut single “One Corner”, and in 2019, came up with the phrase “Sco Pa Tu Manaa” which quickly became a social media sensation and further boosted his popularity is expected to bring the stage alive with his colleague in the music industry in the Central Region. The Central Music Awards is designed to celebrate and honour the unique efforts of musicians and entertainment personalities in the Central region and also around the globe. Heritage Event Promotions is the sole organizer for CMA 19 and it is to serve humanity through music/entertainment benefits entirely from their sacrifice. This event has over the last seven editions grown to become the biggest music event in the Central Region. Conservative estimates for 2018 e...

BBNaija’s Ifu apologises for insulting Yvonne Nelson in leaked chats Ghanaian actress, YVONNE NELSON Nigerian TV reality show star, Ifu Ennanda has reacted to the leaked chat brouhaha she’s been caught in. The former Big Brother Naija housemate, in a leaked chat, insulted Yvonne Nelson in a conversation she had with Alex who told her that the Ghanaian actress discouraged her from working with Nana Akua Addo when she was in Ghana. Ifu has been accused of leaking the chat which was to expose Yvonne Nelson for sabotaging Nana Akua Addo but that came with her attracting a severe backlash, for the derogatory comments she made about Yvonne. In reaction, she has denied leaking the chat, saying that “someone I trusted leaked them," Ifu made the comments via her social media outlets where she also apologized for talking bad about Yvonne Nelson. According to Ifu, she was angry and wasn't thinking straight when during her chat with Alex, who visited Ghana for t...

Shatta Wale hands over his ‘Most Popular Song’ Award to Stonebwoy & promises their beef is over at MTN 4Syte TV Awards Shatta Wale hands over his 'Most Popular Song' Award to Stonebwoy & promises their beef is over at MTN 4Syte TV Awards Controversial African Dancehall King, Shatta Wale did what Napoleon couldn’t do by shocking all music lovers gathered at MTN 4Syte TV Awards being held at the moment. Shatta Wale hands over his 'Most Popular Song' Award to Stonebwoy & promises their beef is over at MTN 4Syte TV Awards As all thought, he was going to send the Award home, Shatta Wale shocked them by presenting over the Award to Stonebwoy who at the time was out of the Auditorium. He called on a representative of the President of the Bhim Nation to come for the plaque and send to his musical blood and partner. Attached to it, Shatta Wale declared that their beef is officially over. Earlier, he hugged Stonebwoy so tightly as he was perfo...

PROMO ALERT: GHANAIAN BASED UK GOSPEL MUSICIAN, REV.  DAVID ANTWI START  HIS RADIO TOUR TODAY P ROMOTING HIS DEBUT ALBUM. REV. DAVID ANTWI MINISTRIES A UK based Ghanaian Gospel musician Rev. David Antwi has made way to Ghana to promote  his debut album starting today 16th November, 2019 with majority  of the radio stations in Ghana. A media tour powered by klassik promotions Group. An album captioned "Yaweh Praise.(A Psalm of David, Vol.1)". The ordained Rev. Minister who again is into music, is with the Apostolic Church Gh-Uk. A religious association with an explicit moral values and dignity. As a part and leader of such an association typifies the content of his works, and how impartful they could become. As a native of the land, Rev. David Antwi has decided to premier the album in Ghana first before any other places. The commencement of the tour is Accra the capital before the sub-regions. As he starts with Atinka fm followed by Accra F...