{"id":9982,"date":"2025-01-27T13:18:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T13:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=9982"},"modified":"2025-01-27T13:19:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T13:19:46","slug":"i-started-valentines-day-concerts-in-ghana-kwabena-kwabena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=9982","title":{"rendered":"I started Valentine\u2019s Day concerts in Ghana \u2013 Kwabena Kwabena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kwabena Kwabena has stated in an interview with the press, that he started Valentine&#8217;s Day shows in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after Akwaboah had attributed the cancellation of his 2024 Val&#8217;s Day concert to Kwabena Kwabena&#8217;s event which was also slated for the same day and venue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the past 6 years, Valentine&#8217;s Day has become synonymous with Akwaboah&#8217;s <em>Shades of Love<\/em>\u00a0concert. This is why it pains me to say we will not be able to have our concert this year,&#8221; Akwaboah wrote in statement issued in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Akwaboah further said in an interview on fish Fm: &#8220;For the reason he scheduled his date on February 14, I don&#8217;t know, because he was supposed to do it earlier, thus on February 10. If his conscience serves him right for what he is doing, it&#8217;s up to him. His decision baffles me a lot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, setting the record straight on the origin of Val&#8217;s Day concerts in Ghana, the &#8216;Adult Music&#8217; singer said he started organising concerts on Valentine&#8217;s Day before any other Ghanaian musician.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On the 14th of February 2014 that was the first time I did Valentine concert. I called it F14. So I started Valentine shows. And it shouldn&#8217;t be a problem that anybody wants to do some or wants to do an event on the 14th because I believe there are a lot of people out there who wants to go out and have fun,&#8221; he told DJ Slim.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn as much as any artiste will make a claim to that particular day, that\u2019s very unfortunate because I started it,\u201d he further noted.<\/p>\n<p>Emphasising the importance of recognizing the contributions of artistes, Kwabena stated, \u201cno artiste should lay claim that it\u2019s mine. I mean it\u2019s not fair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kwabena kwabena interview connotes the significance of artistic recognition and the history of entertainment in Ghana<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Kwabena Kwabena is set to organise the Valentine\u2019s Day event at the grand arena on the 14th February 2025.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kwabena Kwabena has stated in an interview with the press, that he started Valentine&#8217;s Day shows in Ghana. This comes after Akwaboah had attributed the cancellation of his 2024 Val&#8217;s Day concert to Kwabena Kwabena&#8217;s event which was also slated for the same day and venue. &#8220;For the past 6 years, Valentine&#8217;s Day has become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,41],"tags":[3220,3219,3221],"class_list":["post-9982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-general-news","tag-concerts","tag-kwabena-kwabena","tag-valentines-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9982","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=9982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9984,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9982\/revisions\/9984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}