Music: Diamond Popping…

I’m a big fan of singer, fashion designer, entrepreneur and CEO of Diamonds Empire -Diamond Appiah. This triple threat plus is not only beautiful, a fabulous businesses woman; she is the owner of Diamonds Empire boutique, located at Achimota Kinsby, near the Kinsby Hotel -it stocks all the latest on-trend clothes and accessories from Europe and America alongside her own designs called Diamonds Fashions by Diamond Appiah -but she is heating up the airwaves of Ghana and beyond with her funky, clubby style of music. On her way to becoming not only Ghana’s own but Africa’s very own Lady Gaga -we predict big things for Mz Diamond. We love you Diamond, go girl xx

Title: Singer Jason Mraz visits Ghana to help end slavery /By: Mesfin Fekadu –June 2010

Jason Mraz

NEW YORK – While Shakira, the Black Eyed Peas and other top musicians are in Africa to help kick off the World Cup, singer Jason Mraz was on the continent for another reason: to help free slaves.


The 31-year-old Grammy winner was in Ghana this week with Free the Slaves, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to "end slavery worldwide."

Mraz spent five days in the country, traveling with James Kofi Annan, a former child slave who used to work on fishing boats and had been enslaved for seven years.

Annan founded Challenging Heights, a school in Winneba where many of its students are former slaves. The children performed songs for Mraz.

The singer also traveled to a rescue shelter for slaves in the town of Atebubu and to Lake Volta, where many child slaves are working, said Peggy Callahan, the organization's co-founder and executive producer.

Callahan says she met Mraz through a mutual friend and she suggested he go to Ghana with her.

"The movement to end slavery really needs more voices, but they really need to be authentic voices, people who really do care about an issue," she said. "And Jason's one of those people, and he's willing to take the time to find out."

Mraz is the first celebrity to participate on the ground with the organization.

The pop singer is also busy working on the follow-up to his platinum-selling CD, 2008's "We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things." For more information visit: http://www.freetheslaves.net// & http://www.jasonmraz.com/   
[Credit: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100612/ap_en_mu/us_people_jason_mraz]


****For more information about James Kofi Annan -the founder of Challenging Heights -a school in Winneba where many of its students are former slaves please visit: http://www.challengingheight.org/aboutus.html

Selena Gomez…Disney actress and singer –visits Ghana…

“That’s why I feel very honored to have a voice that kids listen to and take into consideration,. I had people on my tour asking me where is Ghana, -and they Googled it...… and because I went there, they now know where Ghana is. So it’s pretty incredible.” Selena Gomez

*Selena is doing a good job for UNICEF –and about the above comment…..she is a young girl [17] –and she is right, …a lot of ‘middle America’ don’t know where Ghana is….x

Black Star: Josephine Amankwah

Opera singer Josephine Amankwah's exquisite mezzo-soprano voice -will have you spellbound. Elegant and graceful -Josephine is a seasoned and accomplished, -energetic star of the,- stage, television, film and -concert halls. Her haunting, syrupy, -part 'nightingale' and part sassy -voice is layered and captivating. And having experienced critical acclaim in classical music recital, musical theatre and television spheres, has gone on to write and direct 'Let My People Go', a production for Third Dimension Productions”. More than an entertainer -this artist/producer's talents is beyond Opera/music -she is a Ghanaian treasure. For more information -please visit: www.joamankwah.com/