{"id":10391,"date":"2023-12-11T14:11:53","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T14:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=10391"},"modified":"2023-12-11T14:11:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T14:11:53","slug":"gospel-artiste-benedict-onyemechalu-encourages-versatility-in-gospel-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/12\/11\/gospel-artiste-benedict-onyemechalu-encourages-versatility-in-gospel-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Gospel Artiste, Benedict Onyemechalu, Encourages Versatility in Gospel Music"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reverend Father and gospel artiste Benedict Onyemechalu advocates for diversity in gospel music styles, urging fellow artists to explore different sounds. Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria, he emphasizes the need to break away from monotonous conventions and commends artists like Johnny Drille and Asaka for redefining gospel sounds. Onyemechalu, also the Creative Director of O\u2019Padre Creations, shares, “To me, the conventional concept of gospel music tightens the net and allows for little or no further expansions, but music cannot be caged. Music cannot and should not be contained.”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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He reveals that his inspiration often comes while driving and expresses his plans to establish himself as a professional artist in the next five years. Onyemechalu cites influences from notable choral musicians, aspires to have his music resonate globally, and adds, “I would love to hear the name ‘FadaBen’ on everyone\u2019s lips. I would love to hear my music sung in the streets of Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, and other cities in Nigeria and down to other nations of the world.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Reverend Father and gospel artiste Benedict Onyemechalu advocates for diversity in gospel music styles, urging fellow artists to explore different sounds. Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria, he emphasizes the need to break away from monotonous conventions and commends artists like Johnny Drille and Asaka for redefining gospel sounds. Onyemechalu, also the Creative Director […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":10392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10391"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10398,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10391\/revisions\/10398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}