{"id":4205,"date":"2024-03-22T14:32:54","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T14:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=4205"},"modified":"2024-03-22T14:32:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T14:32:56","slug":"i-was-body-shamed-my-music-was-not-appreciated-wiyaala-speaks-about-early-career-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=4205","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Was Body Shamed, My Music Was Not Appreciated\u2019 \u2013 Wiyaala Speaks About Early Career Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Award-winning singer and songwriter, Wiyaala has shared some challenges she experienced during her early career journey singing in her native Sissala language.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an interview on 3FM Lounge, Wiyaala said she was disappointed at Ghanaians who initially didn\u2019t accept her style of music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She said she was&nbsp;body shamed and her style of music&nbsp;was not appreciated at the time she begun her music career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the \u2018Rock My Body crooner\u2019, she was only encouraged and motivated to urge on by the diasporan community which appreciated her style of music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe disappointing part was immediately I stepped out only Ghanaians living abroad, diaspora accepted me. They just accepted me quick but the authentic Ghanaian were not even minding me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey were like that girl is she not a footballer? They were talking about how I\u2019m going to beat somebody, my body is too hard, my back is too flat and my body is too hard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe flip side is that, that made me popular so I capitalised on that. There were certain things that I just knew that it was going to take years to try and convince anybody to accept me so I just channeled my energy to the community of people in Ghana and outside that appreciated me,\u201d she told AJ Sarpong on Friday, March 22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-32905a1ca3c17c58ecdfe3e3bab1039c ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:400px; height:400px; max-height:400px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lm5Lo2c07kE?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen referrerpolicy=\"origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The award-winning singer added that she heeded to her instincts which informed her to \u201cconcentrate on abroad where the music is selling\u201d with expectations that people will come around later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wiyaala explained further that she was advice by his management to feature a few Ghanaian artistes whose style of music have been accepted to fit in the industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, despite her efforts, she said she found adapting to a different style to be financially draining and could not go ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI tried but I was not doing that because I wanted to but the people around me wanted to feature some few artistes in Ghana so they will introduce you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI tried one or two but then it was still not catching up, I was rather spending unnecessary money just to fit in\u2026adapting meant I had to force and convince not just emotionally, psychologically and physically but financially and I could not,\u201d she stressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The \u2018Sissala Goddess\u2019 has since won many awards including international ones and etched several achievements with the same style of music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Award-winning singer and songwriter, Wiyaala has shared some challenges she experienced during her early career journey singing in her native Sissala language. In an interview on 3FM Lounge, Wiyaala said she was disappointed at Ghanaians who initially didn\u2019t accept her style of music. She said she was&nbsp;body shamed and her style of music&nbsp;was not appreciated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,41],"tags":[1389],"class_list":["post-4205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-general-news","tag-wiyaala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4207,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4205\/revisions\/4207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}