{"id":107951,"date":"2015-04-13T15:04:42","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T15:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=107951"},"modified":"2015-04-13T17:24:58","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T17:24:58","slug":"im-sick-but-i-performed-at-vgma-because-i-love-ghanaians-daddy-lumba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=107951","title":{"rendered":"I wasn&#8217;t well when I performed at VGMA \u2013 Daddy Lumba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Highlife legend, Daddy Lumba has explained his &#8220;okay&#8221; stage performance at the just ended Vodafone Ghana Music Award (VGMA), saying it was due to ill health.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;zzLQgnGoUT6nZJ9cfX3aaiiAfKb1dfCy&#8221;]\u201cEveryone knows Daddy Lumba is not well and that I have been battling with ill-health for a while; and this is not my type of performance but I am not well,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking on the Entertainment Review programme on Accra based Peace FM, the highlife legend said despite his health problems, he \u201cdecided to do the show because of the huge love I have for Ghanaians and also to show appreciation for the support Ghana has given me for the past 30 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/04ad8be2979151015a8af7c9f7610246_L.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-107961\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/04ad8be2979151015a8af7c9f7610246_L.jpg\" alt=\"04ad8be2979151015a8af7c9f7610246_L\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/04ad8be2979151015a8af7c9f7610246_L.jpg 494w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/04ad8be2979151015a8af7c9f7610246_L-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Daddy Lumba has been criticized for not putting up his usual spirited performance at the VGMA awards night.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Daddy Lumba won the Highlife artiste of the year and Highlife song of the year awards is said to have also delayed before appearing on stage while wearing an oversized costume and appeared frail.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highlife legend, Daddy Lumba has explained his &#8220;okay&#8221; stage performance at the just ended Vodafone Ghana Music Award (VGMA), saying it was due to ill health. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;zzLQgnGoUT6nZJ9cfX3aaiiAfKb1dfCy&#8221;]\u201cEveryone knows Daddy Lumba is not well and that I have been battling with ill-health for a while; and this is not my type of performance but I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":107975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[38,6],"class_list":["post-107951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-togbe-afede"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/107975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}