{"id":28768,"date":"2023-08-11T15:03:58","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T13:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2023\/08\/11\/maryama-cham-rising-star-in-gambia-singers-sharp-songwriting-and-striking-voice-has-won-over-fans\/"},"modified":"2023-08-11T15:03:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T13:03:58","slug":"maryama-cham-rising-star-in-gambia-singers-sharp-songwriting-and-striking-voice-has-won-over-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2023\/08\/11\/maryama-cham-rising-star-in-gambia-singers-sharp-songwriting-and-striking-voice-has-won-over-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryama Cham, rising star in Gambia: Singer&rsquo;s sharp songwriting and striking voice has won over fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Gambian music industry has long been dominated by men but a new young artist has been making waves. Maryama Cham has won plaudits both at home and overseas not only for the sound of her music but also as a champion of causes such as gender equality and climate consciousness. Her powerful voice and poignant song writing have struck a chord with audiences across the region. FRANCE 24&rsquo;s correspondents Sam Bradpiece, Mbaye Ndir and Mustapha Jallow visited Gambia to find out why.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gambian music industry has long been dominated by men but a new young artist has been making waves. Maryama Cham has won plaudits both at home and overseas not only for the sound of her music but also as a champion of causes such as gender equality and climate consciousness. Her powerful voice and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-28768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}