{"id":14762,"date":"2014-04-22T15:34:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T15:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=14762"},"modified":"2014-04-23T12:07:10","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T12:07:10","slug":"gemanns-tragedy-to-be-captured-in-upcoming-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=14762","title":{"rendered":"Gemann&#8217;s tragedy to be captured in upcoming movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"stcpDiv\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A Ghanaian filmmaker, Kofi Yeboah, has disclosed plans to produce a movie based on the tragic story of popular Highlife musician Gemann.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Gemann, born Nana Akwasi Agyemang, rose to fame as a phenomenal entertainer. His music and dancing prowess earned him the title &#8220;Michael Jackson of Ghana.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Gemann&#8217;s hit song <em><strong>Highlife in G-major<\/strong><\/em><strong> <\/strong>became an instant hit and continues to be enjoyed even in recent times.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">While he enjoyed his fame, little did Gemann know his life was going to take a heartbreaking turn.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In 1995 he shot and killed a taxi driver at Dome in Accra after disagreements over payment of taxi fare. He was however granted a\u00a0 pardon on the 9th of Jan, 2009 by President John Agyekum Kuffour.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">After his release from prison, he&#8217;s become a pastor, teacher, an international evangelist, gospel artiste\/songwriter and a Christian music producer, with his own recording label and a multi-media outfit \u2013 Christian Entertainment company (GODSBIZ).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">According to Kofi Yeboah, he hopes to draw people&#8217;s attention to anger and how it can mess up a promising life and career, with Gemann&#8217;s story.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cI will write a script and use him as the main cast (lead character). I promise it will become a blockbuster movie that can be used to educate, especially, our celebrities to caution their temper as public figures and role models.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Kojo Akoto Boateng\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Ghanaian filmmaker, Kofi Yeboah, has disclosed plans to produce a movie based on the tragic story of popular Highlife musician Gemann. Gemann, born Nana Akwasi Agyemang, rose to fame as a phenomenal entertainer. His music and dancing prowess earned him the title &#8220;Michael Jackson of Ghana.&#8221; Gemann&#8217;s hit song Highlife in G-major became an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":14770,"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":[6,246],"class_list":["post-14762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-togbe-afede","tag-togbega-kodi-adiko-vi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14762","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}