{"id":399899,"date":"2018-02-09T06:22:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T06:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=399899"},"modified":"2018-02-09T09:28:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T09:28:22","slug":"dancehall-diva-ebony-dead-in-car-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=399899","title":{"rendered":"Dancehall diva Ebony dead in car crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-year-old Dancehall star, Ebony Reigns, has been confirmed dead in a car crash at Mankranso in the Ashanti Region.<\/p>\n<p>Ebony, real name Priscilla Opoku-Kwarteng, was returning from Sunyani in the Brong Ahafo Region when the Jeep she was travelling in crashed into a VIP bus on Thursday evening, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Ebony was travelling with three other people, and two of them have also been confirmed dead. The two include a young lady, Ebony&#8217;s assistant, and a man in military uniform believed to be a soldier.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Jeep survived the crash, but is currently unconscious and receiving\u00a0treatment, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The Divisional Commander of Mankranso, DSP John Adusei, confirmed the accident to <strong>Citi News<\/strong> narrating that Ebony was on her way from Sunyani where, &#8220;at the intersection of the road between the Nsuta and Bechem junction, [her car] collided with a VIP bus which was also coming from Kumasi towards the Sunyani direction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;so three of them passed on. Now the bodies are at Mankranso. We have a morgue here so we have deposited the bodies over here,&#8221;\u00a0DSP John Adusei added.<\/p>\n<p>No causalities have been recorded from the VIP bus.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-399920\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Ebony-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Ebony-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Ebony-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Ebony-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Ebony.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ebony\u2019s passing comes on the\u00a0back of a stellar 2017 where she rose to superstardom in Ghanaian popular culture.<\/p>\n<p>The singer was discovered by renowned\u00a0music\u00a0entrepreneur Bullet of\u00a0Ruff n Smooth\u00a0fame in 2015, when she sent in a demo. She was signed to Bullet&#8217;s Rufftown record label a day after.<\/p>\n<p>Known for her risqu\u00e9 onstage acts and vivacious performances, Ebony captivated Ghanaians with her hit singles which included\u00a0Maame\u00a0Hw\u0511, Kupe, Poison and Sponsor.<\/p>\n<p>She was widely tipped to be the Artiste of the Year at the Ghana Music Awards in April 2018.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Below is a video of Ebony believed to have been taken hours before her fatal car crash.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Czsep64W4Lk\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-year-old Dancehall star, Ebony Reigns, has been confirmed dead in a car crash at Mankranso in the Ashanti Region. Ebony, real name Priscilla Opoku-Kwarteng, was returning from Sunyani in the Brong Ahafo Region when the Jeep she was travelling in crashed into a VIP bus on Thursday evening, according to police. Ebony was travelling with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":399901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,10,11],"tags":[15664,3],"class_list":["post-399899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-showbiz","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-ebony","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399899","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=399899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/399901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}