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The year 2018 under review was surely a good one for Afropop singer  Gregory Promise

Bortey Newman, popularly known as King Promise.

Notwithstanding, the sensational singer has promised his fans that he is not going to rest

on his oars in 2019.

According to the ‘CCTV’ hitmaker himself, year 2019 is the next level for him and he cannot

wait to show the world what he is made of, musically.

Speaking after the second edition of the annual ‘Promise Land’ concert, King Promise,

said he is grateful to God for a great show and most importantly a successful year.

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“I’ve had an amazing year. From January till now it has been blessings upon blessings so I’m thankful for where are now. I’m thankful for the success of this show tonight.

You never know, you just come out hoping it comes out great but it turned out amazingly well.” He said.

Given that King Promise has built a steady rising profile with timely releases and collaborations

with top-notch artistes like Sarkodie, Fuse ODG, Stonebwoy, Mr Eazi and recently Wizkid, the

budding star revealed plans for more global tours.

Although the Legacy Life Entertainment (LLE ) signee did not disclose what exactly he had for

2019, he was certain Ghanaians and music lover worldwide should expect the unexpected.

In his words, “Always next level. Last year we said we were gonna do something that cuts across here in Ghana and we did it and this year, we were like we taking it international.

We gonna go out there, go on tour and let them hear all the beautiful music we have from Ghana and we have done that. We have done the UK, we’ve done Europe, we’ve done America, we’ve done Nigeria and now we are here in Ghana”.

“So next year higher heights. We are praying for bigger things. By God’s Grace it shall be well,” he added.

Since he came into limelight has been very consistent in producing hit after hit songs.

Now, he’s one of the most sought-after artistes in Ghana and seems to be going global as well.

King Promise had earlier embarked on a tour in the UK, where he treated fans to the best of his music.

As a way of expanding his wings globally, CCTV crooner is yet agin about to embark on a first-time media tour of Nigeria.

This media tour hence becomes his second of the year in a foreign country.

The media tour of Nigeria will start today, the 22nd of August and will run for a couple of days.

During this period, King Promise will grant TV interviews and radio interviews to top-level Nigerian media houses in a bid to promote himself, his songs and his latest release, Abena.

Not to end there, King Promise will also perform at a Trace TV event on the campus of the University of Lagos. He will also be live on Duncan mighty’s industry nite event.

Musician King Promise says he never imagined in his wildest dreams he could have a collaboration with two Ghanaian top notch artistes, Sarkodie and Mugeez of R2Bees fame.

According to King Promise, born Gregory Bortey Newman, it was there a surprise and a dream come true for him when the two artistes featured on his “CCTV” song.

Speaking in an interview with Jerry Justice on Adom FM’s Drive Time show “Ofie Kwanso”, King Promise disclosed that Sarkodie gave his verse a few days after a meeting with him.

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Narrating the events that led to them featuring on the song, the “Selfish” hitmaker said the initial plan was to sing and own the song.

However,  Mugeez walked into engineer Killbeatz’s studio and featured on the song.

“I was gonna take a break from the studio and Mugeez walked in and jumped on the song. Later we thought about putting Sark on the song. I never imagined doing a song with these two artistes. I was supposed to see Sark so he gave his verse after listening to it. He is super busy so he did it quickly…” King Promise told Jerry Justice.

King Promise is currently promoting his song dubbed: “Abena”

Legacy Life Entertainment artiste, King Promise has said Mr Eazi is his best friend.

According to him, he and the Banku Music pioneer are highly compatible when it comes to friendships.

“Mr Eazi and I are best friends we just click. He likes my stuff I also like his stuff and if there is competition between both of us it’s a good one,” he said in an interview on Starr Drive.

The “Oh Yeah” hit maker also told hosts Giovanni Caleb and Berla Mundi that their friendship has gone far that he had to travel to Dubai just to celebrate Mr Eazi’s birthday.

“I went to Dubai to celebrate Mr Eazi birthday,” he added.

King Promise, born Gregory Bortey Newman also revealed that he has already recorded his latest song “Abena” before he brought out “CCTV”.

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“I recorded Abena before I went to London. People have been hearing love songs, so my team [decided] to bring out something different. So when I came back we decided to try this one and see we brought out the CCTV,”he said.

the Best New Act at the just ended Ghana entertainment awards USA stated.

According to the Best New Act at the just ended Ghana entertainment awards USA is new music video “Abena” has more views than that of CCTV and the former is trending on iTunes ahead of the latter.

“Abena” is the 2nd single by King Promise off his upcoming debut album. The song showcases the rich Ghanaian highlife sound; a mix between the old & new school Ghanaian sound. The song is Produced by Ghanaian producer Killbeatz.

Enjoy the track below;

 

Sensational singer, King Promise, has disclosed what motivated him to produce his “CCTV song.”

According to the Legacy Life Entertainment artiste, after carefully listening to lyrics of R2Bees’ Life (Walahi) song,

he thought of writing similar lyrics.

King Promise, real name, Gregory Bortey Newman was speaking in an interview on Kasapa Fm’s ‘Di Wu Lane’ show.

“Walahi’ has been my inspiration and that is how I came about CCTV because I thought of doing a motivational song to speak with my people.” He told host, Kwame Bee

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King Promise’ CCTV song has been very phenomenal in the music industry over a short period of time.

Featuring on the song are Ghanaian powerhouses, Mugeez and Sarkodie

The song was rated number one on the Musicians Union of Ghana top ten most played songs on radio for the month of June.

However, taking the credit for producing the soul inspiring song is multiple award-winning record producer Killbeatz.

 

Legacy Life Entertainment artiste, King Promise, has been spotted chilling in Ibiza, Spain over the weekend.

In his company were UK chart-toppers, Stormzy and Lethal Bizzle.

The three stars seems to be chilling at an event in Spain.

A video shared on Ghanafuo.com Instagram page shows the trio enjoying what seems to be a concert.

King Promise, born Gregory Bortey Newman is currently touring Europe.

Fans of the ‘Selfish’ hitmaker are already anticipating for a fantastic collaboration by the trio.

If something of that sort is really ‘cooking’, then we know for sure it will be a banger.

The Afro-beats musician is currently topping charts with his latest banger, titled “CCTV”.

The song, however features BET Award-winning rapper Sarkodie and Mugeez of R2Bees fame.

Watch the video below;

https://www.instagram.com/p/BkxEdfrgo0H/?taken-by=ghanafuodotcom

Fast rising musician, King promise has expressed his fondness over the youngest musician in Ghana, Miyaki.

King Promise, who was on Rythmz, yesterday on Gh One TV revealed that he’s a big fan of the VMG artiste.

He made mention that he loves MiYAKi’s verse on the Chuku song a lot.

‘’Yeah I like miyaki,I like him his verse on chuku was sick and the legendary VVIP as well’’

Meanwhile, Miyaki recently released his first single dubbed ‘Overtime’

Checkout bits from his interview below:

https://youtu.be/plyftNYs59U

 

Budding hiplife artiste, King Promise has revealed that he has never had a girlfriend and had gone on three dates all his life.

According to the ‘Selfish’ hitmaker, he is not a fan of going on dates explaining that he prefers to rather stay home all day.

King Promise made this revelation on Celebrity Fanzone, last Saturday on GHOne TV.

“I have never gone on dates. I have been on two dates my whole life because I have never had a girlfriend. The first time I went on a date was three years ago and it happened twice after,” he disclosed.

“I will order the ‘waakye’ and take home. I am always home. A lot of stuff I used to do, I can no longer do,” he added.

King Promise also insisted that President Nana Akufo-Addo being tagged “King Promise” by his political opponents is something he finds funny, which doesn’t bother him.

“It’s funny when I see it all the time. I always laugh when I see stuff like that. I don’t have a problem with it honestly, having them call the president by my name kind of funny. He is the president, who’s gonna say he doesn’t like it. It doesn’t take anything away from me.”

King Promise is billed to perform at this year’s Ghana Meets Naija concert slated for June 9 at the Fantasy Dome in Accra.

About King Promise

Real name is Gregory Promise Bortey Newman, an award-winning artiste and songwriter. Born on 16th of August, he is the only boy among three girls.

King Promise started his formal education at De Kings Academy then to Nungua Senior High School. He graduated last year from Central University where he read BSc. Business Administration (Marketing Major)

He has collaborated with great artistes such as Scientific, J-Town, Adina, Pappy Kojo, Fuse ODG, among others.

King Promise is currently signed to the Legendary Producer Killbeatz’s record label. The Record Label is called the Legacy Life Entertainment (LLE ) which is managed by Gervin Ohene Addo.

He takes credit for songs such as CCTV, Selfish, Thank God, Hey Sexy among others.

His song, ‘Thank God’, which features Fuse ODG won the Best Discovery Music Video Award at the 4 Syte TV Music Video Awards in 2017.

 

 

Legacy Life Entertainment’s frontman, King Promise has said that elated by the fact that the President Akufo Addo has been tagged King Promise.

He indicated that the new name given to the President will in no way pose any negativity to his brand.

President Akufo-Addo has been tagged “King Promise” by his Political opponents. This is due to his continuous outrageous promises to the people of Ghana.

They maintain that Nana Addo has failed to fulfill most of his promises he made during the 2016 campaign, though he still has some years before the next election.

In reacting to the fact that the President is called “King Promise” the ‘CCTV’ crooner indicated that he has no problem with it.

He stated that, he’s rather elated to know the first gentleman of the land bears his name.

He said “I laugh about it all the time, it’s a plus when people are calling the president with your name, it is cool, I will accept it like that, I don’t have any problem about it, absolutely nothing.”

The ‘Selfish’ hit maker was speaking in an interview with Accra-based Class FM.

He further indicated that there is the need for investment into the creative arts industry. This he stressed would make it more lucrative for the masses.

“We need a lot of support in the art industry, we need more money, more funding. Build centres like workshops where people can learn how to write music or play any kind of instrument. He should also invest into the art industry to train Ghanaian artistes in order to compete with the high-level,with other people.”