For years, he was the butt of jokes on social media — a perennial nominee, never a winner of the big one. But at the 26th edition of the Telecel Ghana Music Awards (TGMAs), Gregory Bortey Newman, known as King Promise, silenced doubters and finally ascended the throne.
After years of being Ghanaian music’s nearly man, the silky-voiced crooner won the coveted Artiste of the Year crown, marking a moment of vindication and doing something distinctly Ghanaian yet internationally relevant.
King Promise’s journey to this pinnacle is a…
