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EntertainmentON RECORD · Booed To Ghud Park

Booed in 2019, headlining Ghud Park in December: Gyakie on Starr Drive

On Starr FM, Gyakie talked about the crowd that booed her, her first headline show since 2022 and a new EP before Christmas.

By QMS Newsroom24 Oct 2026, 21:00 GMT1 min read
Booed in 2019, headlining Ghud Park in December: Gyakie on Starr Drive
Image: ON RECORD · Booed To Ghud Park episode cover, Qwofi Manuel Studio.

Gyakie will headline her own concert, Gyakie Live, at Ghud Park on Saturday, 12 December 2026. It is her first headline show since 2022, and she told Kojo Manuel on Starr FM's Starr Drive that the build-up has been all rehearsals, details and nerves.

The interview went back to the start. In 2019, early in her career, she was booked on a show she calls "the Republic show", with Stonebwoy headlining. The crowd was rowdy and booed when she came on. She told Starr Drive that night and her Global Citizen Festival performance in Accra in September 2022 are the two moments "engraved in my heart".

From the boos to Forbes

Her first single, "Love Is Pretty", came out in February 2019. In June 2025 she was named in the Forbes Africa 30 Under 30 class of 2025. Her manager since 2019 has been Emmanuel "Electro Mirror" Sedo of Flip The Music; she said on air that their relationship started with a Twitter DM.

What's next

Gyakie said a new EP, The Dawn, will be out before December, with six or seven songs and only home-based artists featured. The lead single, "Your Body (Crazy)", was released on 16 October. She also spoke about "Harmattan", her song with Shatta Wale on her 2025 album After Midnight. She said Shatta sent his verse about two days after she called him.

Asked whether she feels underappreciated, she said people will come round: "They have to."

The QMS take · Opinion

Seven years from a crowd that booed her to a headline show of her own, and most of the work in between was homework, not luck. Ghana is quick to move on from its good things. Celebrate this one first.

ON RECORD · Booed To Ghud ParkThe full Starr Drive interview on Starr FM's YouTube
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Sources
  • Starr FM, Starr Drive with Kojo Manuel: Gyakie interview (recorded 21 Oct 2026)
  • MyJoyOnline, GBC and halmblog: Gyakie Live at Ghud Park, 12 Dec 2026
  • 3Music TV, globalcitizen.org and OkayAfrica: Global Citizen Festival Accra (24 Sep 2022)
  • 3News, Graphic Showbiz and Yen: Forbes Africa 30 Under 30, class of 2025
  • GBC, notjustOK and News Ghana: The Dawn EP and "Your Body (Crazy)" (Oct 2026)
  • Audiomack: "Harmattan" with Shatta Wale on After Midnight (Aug 2025)

Every factual line in this story is checked against at least two independent sources, unless the text says it comes from one report.