{"id":172647,"date":"2015-12-08T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T06:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=172647"},"modified":"2015-12-07T19:30:23","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T19:30:23","slug":"celebrities-congratulate-rocky-dawuni-on-his-grammy-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=172647","title":{"rendered":"Celebrities congratulate Rocky Dawuni on his Grammy nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some Ghanaian celebrities have congratulated reggae artiste Rocky Dawuni for his Grammy nomination for Best Reggae Album.<\/p>\n<p>XO Senavoe, M.anifest, Lydia Forson, Jon Germain and Ama K. Abebrese have taken to Twitter to share their congratulatory messages.<\/p>\n<p>Although his music\u00a0appear not to have embraced much in his homeland, Dawuni has made great strides\u00a0in most parts of Africa and Europe.<\/p>\n<p>M.anifest, in his tweet, called on Ghanaians to applaud the achievement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongrats to Rocky @RockyDawuni on his Grammy nomination for best Reggae Album. Ghana applaud your own. Vim,\u201d his tweet said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Congratulations to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RockyDawuni\">@RockyDawuni<\/a> on his Grammy nom for best reggae album. Way to make Africa and Ghana proud. ???<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 El Presidente #GHOST (@XO_Senavoe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/XO_Senavoe\/status\/673922038629867520\">December 7, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>\nCongrats to Rocky <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RockyDawuni\">@RockyDawuni<\/a> on his Grammy nomination for best Reggae Album. Ghana applaud your own. Vim.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 M.anifest (@manifestive) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/manifestive\/status\/673919558890201088\">December 7, 2015<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Congratulations <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RockyDawuni\">@RockyDawuni<\/a> on your nomination for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BestReggaeAlbum?src=hash\">#BestReggaeAlbum<\/a>&#8216; 4 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BranchesoftheSameTree?src=hash\">#BranchesoftheSameTree<\/a>&#8216; at the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Grammys?src=hash\">#Grammys<\/a>. ?? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Hy0qZEVS2O\">pic.twitter.com\/Hy0qZEVS2O<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ama K Abebrese (@Ama_K_Abebrese) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ama_K_Abebrese\/status\/673912726280921088\">December 7, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RockyDawuni\">@RockyDawuni<\/a> congratulations bro.. Its happened.. GRAMMY Nomination.. Wow..<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jon Germain (@jongermain) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jongermain\/status\/673898894133223424\">December 7, 2015<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Congratulations Rocky Dawuni on your Grammy Nomination.. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheYearOfTheUnderDog?src=hash\">#TheYearOfTheUnderDog<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WorkHardInSilence?src=hash\">#WorkHardInSilence<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LetYourSuccesTalk?src=hash\">#LetYourSuccesTalk<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/arIBgEh37R\">pic.twitter.com\/arIBgEh37R<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Miss Forson (@lydiaforson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lydiaforson\/status\/673921368749117440\">December 7, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Rocky Dawuni is the first Ghanaian to be nominated for a Grammy award. Rocky made it in the \u2018Reggae Album of the Year\u2019 category with the acclaimed album, \u2018Branches of The Same Tree\u2019 under Cumbancha Label. He will be contesting with other internationally-recognized artistes like Barrington Levy, Luciano, Jah Cure and Morgan Heritage for the honor. He has been named one of Africa\u2019s Top 10 global stars by CNN. &#8211; By: Jeffrey Owuraku Sarpong\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana \u00a0 <a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OJSarpong\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @OJSarpong<\/a><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Ghanaian celebrities have congratulated reggae artiste Rocky Dawuni for his Grammy nomination for Best Reggae Album. XO Senavoe, M.anifest, Lydia Forson, Jon Germain and Ama K. Abebrese have taken to Twitter to share their congratulatory messages. Although his music\u00a0appear not to have embraced much in his homeland, Dawuni has made great strides\u00a0in most parts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":172649,"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-172647","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\/172647","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/172649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}