{"id":30086,"date":"2024-05-06T08:19:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T08:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=30086"},"modified":"2024-05-06T08:19:04","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T08:19:04","slug":"whitemoney-shifts-focus-from-grammy-to-local-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/05\/06\/whitemoney-shifts-focus-from-grammy-to-local-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitemoney Shifts Focus from Grammy to Local Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Cynthia Abah<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>BBNaija Season 6 winner and singer Whitemoney declares his disinterest in pursuing a Grammy award, citing the compromised integrity and diminishing value of the American accolade.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with content creator Egungun, Whitemoney voices his shift in priorities towards local recognition, particularly the Headies Awards.<\/p>\n<p>Expressing disillusionment with the Grammy organizers&#8217; treatment of Nigerian superstars like Davido and Burna Boy, Whitemoney suggests that the Grammys may be leveraging Nigeria for publicity rather than honoring talent.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his change in focus, Whitemoney remains open to the possibility of Grammy recognition in the future, asserting confidence in his unique musical style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cynthia Abah BBNaija Season 6 winner and singer Whitemoney declares his disinterest in pursuing a Grammy award, citing the compromised integrity and diminishing value of the American accolade. In a recent interview with content creator Egungun, Whitemoney voices his shift in priorities towards local recognition, particularly the Headies Awards. Expressing disillusionment with the Grammy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":30092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30086","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\/30086","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30093,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30086\/revisions\/30093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}