Wiyaala To Perform at 2018 Commonwealth Games Closing Ceremony
Ghana’s Wiyaala will perform with all female international group
GRRRL on the Main Stage at the 2018 Commonwealth Games at The Gold Coast
in Australia on the 15th April. The headline performance
will run from 7pm to 8.30pm and will introduce the formal closing
ceremony to 21st edition of the games.
The biggest sporting event to be staged in Australia this decade, The
Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games (GC2018) will feature the largest
integrated sports program in Commonwealth Games history, comprising 18
sports and seven para-sports and will welcome more than 6,600 athletes
and team officials from 70 Commonwealth nations and territories to the
Gold Coast and event cities Brisbane, Cairns and Townsville, to share in
the celebration of sport, entertainment and culture.
A thrilled Wiyaala said, “working with GRRRL the last two years has
been a real journey for me; we are a fusion of international cultures
and have created a very unique and dynamic energy. The crowd is going to
be international and massive. I used to dream of such things in the
village. And now it’s really happening!”
GRRRL is a bespoke electronic music collaboration between
independent, revolutionary women artists from around the world, coming
together to tell their collective stories of life, conflict, inequality
and change through music.
Fusing together sounds of dark techno, ghetto bass, hip hop,
dancehall, reggae, soul and electronica and directed by Brazil’s Laima
Leyton (Mixhell/Soulwax), GRRRL features an eclectic mix of influential
artists including Mercury Prize winning rapper Speech Debelle, Queen of
Brazilian Dancehall Lei Di Dai, Zimbabwe’s Rap Queen AWA African Women
Arise, The Young Lioness of Africa Wiyaala, Original Nu-Jazz and folk
singer from Cape Town Nono Nkoane, British Bangladeshi singer Sohini
Alam and electronic artist/synth player from UK/Ghana Afrodeutsche.
Ghana will be represented by a total of 72 athletes from 12
disciplines at GC2018 which is slated for Gold Coast, Australia, from
April 4 to 15 this year.
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