{"id":36527,"date":"2019-04-09T15:08:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T15:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africagiant.org\/?p=36527"},"modified":"2019-04-09T15:08:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T15:08:05","slug":"ghanaian-rapper-sarkodie-africagiant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulyne.wp-warriors.com\/?p=36527","title":{"rendered":"Sarkodie, an African Giant Has received 80 awards So Far"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"36527\" class=\"elementor elementor-36527\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3af73eb0 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3af73eb0\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1eb17cf6\" data-id=\"1eb17cf6\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-76b9931e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"76b9931e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africagiant.org\/who-is-an-african-giant\/\">African Giant<\/a> Ghanaian rapper and entrepreneur Michael Owusu Addo known for his stage name Sarkodie, has so far received 80 awards in his music career including MTV Africa Music Awards, Best African Act at the 2013 Nigeria Entertainment Awards, BET Awards and Best West African Act at the 2013 Caribbean American and African Nations Music Awards.<\/p><p>Sarkodie, who is known to rap often in his native language\u00a0Twi was among many who started quite early on in the music game but has overcome some of the challanges involved in the early stage in any artist career in getting that necessary recognition. He is currently one of the\u00a0most celebrated musical icons to hail from Ghana.<\/p><p>He released his 2009 debut album\u00a0<i>Makye<\/i>, with production from Killbeatz and Jayso as well as guest appearances from\u00a0Kwaw Kese, J-Town, Sway and Paedae of R2Bees. However, in 2010, Sarkodie rose swiftly to fame after his first single song &#8220;Baby&#8221;, which also featured Mugeez of the duo\u00a0R2Bees.<\/p><p>There are great acts who make less noise afterall and Sarkodie&#8217;s overall achievements reveals that he is a true star within. It is also interesting to learn that in 2015, Sarkodie was ranked the 19th most Influential Ghanaian by e.tv Ghana.<\/p><p>When the list richest musicians in Africa list was released in December 2018 Sarkodie was ranked 6th on Forbes lists of the Top 10 Richest African Artistes after Akon, Dj Black Coffee, Don Jazzy, Wizkid and Davido.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An African Giant Ghanaian rapper and entrepreneur Michael Owusu Addo known for his stage name Sarkodie, has so far received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulyne.wp-warriors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulyne.wp-warriors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulyne.wp-warriors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulyne.wp-warriors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulyne.wp-warriors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paulyne.wp-warriors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulyne.wp-warriors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulyne.wp-warriors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulyne.wp-warriors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulyne.wp-warriors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}