Few days after Shatta Wale had publicly professed his fondness for gospel giant SP Kofi Sarpong, the latter has also described his admiration for the former.<\/p>\n
SP Kofi Sarpong, in an interview with citifmonline.com<\/strong> said he was not surprised by Shatta Wale\u2019s statement because they had been very good friends. However, he stated that he was honoured by the kind words from Shatta Wale.<\/p>\n \u201cI was very happy. Shatta Wale is one of the few secular artistes I like so much. My favourite of his songs is \u2018Kakai,\u2019\u201d he quipped.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have met several times and anytime we have met, we discussed how we will come together to do a song together. So who knows? One day we may do a song together,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n SP Kofi Sarpong added that secular musicians are not evil so they must not be discriminated against.<\/p>\n On the back of this, some have speculated that the dance hall king might pull a surprise at SP\u2019s forthcoming concert scheduled for 28th<\/sup> May, 2017 at the National Theatre.<\/p>\n On 28th<\/sup>\u00a0May, 2017, the self \u2013 acclaimed King of African Borborbor will be holding his own concert at the National Theatre.<\/p>\n The programme dubbed \u2018SP Live In Concert\u2019 features gospel giants like Ohemaa Mercy, Abena Ruthy, Francis Amo and Nacee.<\/p>\n Others include Joyce Blessing, Kingzkid, Gifty Osei, Koda and a surprise gospel artiste from the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n SP Kofi Sarpong came into the music industry with his first album \u2018Sacrifice\u2019 in 2012. He also has songs like \u2018African Borborbor,\u2019 \u2018Adom Bi,\u2019 \u2018Abotre,\u2019 \u2018Agyenkwa\u2019 and \u2018Aseda.\u2019<\/p>\n Kofi Sarpong has won several awards in the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards, Ghana Music Awards UK and other internationally recognised award schemes.<\/p>\n \u2013<\/p>\n By: Kwame Dadzie\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Few days after Shatta Wale had publicly professed his fondness for gospel giant SP Kofi Sarpong, the latter has also described his admiration for the former. SP Kofi Sarpong, in an interview with citifmonline.com said he was not surprised by Shatta Wale\u2019s statement because they had been very good friends. However, he stated that he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":307040,"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":[137],"tags":[4428,3,6844,1487],"class_list":["post-316947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-showbiz","tag-ghana-music-awards","tag-ghana-news","tag-kofi-sarpong","tag-shatta-wale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316947","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=316947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}