{"id":94457,"date":"2025-08-19T14:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T14:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/94457\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T14:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T14:07:08","slug":"you-bought-the-artiste-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/94457\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;You bought the Artiste of the Year Award&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/entertainment\/You-bought-the-Artiste-of-the-Year-Award-Afia-Schwarzenegger-slams-Empress-Gifty-UTV-1996817?gallery=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/52757667.295.jpg\" alt=\"Afia Schwarzenegger is a Ghanaian socialite\" title=\"Afia Schwarzenegger is a Ghanaian socialite\" width=\"295\" height=\"183\" \/> <\/a>Afia Schwarzenegger is a Ghanaian socialite<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">Socialite <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3301\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3301\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3301\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Afia Schwarzenegger<\/a> has once again caused a stir online, this time by criticising the organizers of the Ghana Music Awards USA and gospel singer Empress Gifty. <\/p>\n<p>Empress Gifty, during the just-ended Ghana Music Awards USA, emerged as the overall winner, clinching the prestigious Artiste of the Year title.  <\/p>\n<p>During the event, which took place on August 16, 2025, Empress Gifty, who was in the same category as King Promise, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=1244\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=1244\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=1244\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stonebwoy<\/a>, Shatta Wale, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=1359\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Diana Hamilton<\/a>, Joe Mettle, Fameye, KiDi, and King Paluta, beat the musicians to win the ultimate award.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/entertainment\/2025-GMAUS-Empress-Gifty-beats-Black-Sherif-King-Promise-&lt;a target=\" _blank=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=1244\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=1244\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stonebwoy<\/a>-to-win-Artiste-of-the-Year-1996542#:~:text=Popular%20Gospel%20musician%2C%20Empress%20Gifty,Artiste%20of%20the%20Year%20title.&#8221;&gt;2025 GMAUS: Empress Gifty beats Black Sherif, King Promise, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=1244\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=1244\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=1244\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stonebwoy<\/a> to win Artiste of the Year<\/p>\n<p>However, in a recent development, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3301\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3301\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3301\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Afia Schwarzenegger<\/a> has accused Empress Gifty of buying the \u2018Artiste of the Year\u2019 Award.  <\/p>\n<p>In a social media post shared on Instagram on August 19, 2025, she wrote, &#8220;What is there to talk about on UTV. Is it the award that they bought or what?&#8221; she said.  <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3301\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3301\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3301\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Afia Schwarzenegger<\/a> added that within six months, she would launch her own award scheme and give the \u2018Artiste of the Year\u2019 award to Patapaa. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/entertainment\/Ghana-Music-Awards-USA-Full-list-of-winners-1996724\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ghana Music Awards USA: Full list of winnerst<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am also in America, so you people should give me six months and I will organise a music awards where I will give the Artiste of the Year to Patapaa,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p> Watch the video below:<\/p>\n<p>JHM\/EB<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, watch the tense standoff in Bonteso as anti-galamsey unit seizes excavators, arrests four:<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Afia Schwarzenegger is a Ghanaian socialite Socialite Afia Schwarzenegger has once again caused a stir online, this time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-94457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}