King Promise won the TGMA 2025 Artiste of the Year
Ghanaian singer and songwriter Gregory Bortey Newman, popularly known as King Promise, has revealed that he would have been devastated if he had excluded himself from the TGMAs.
Speaking in an interview on Daybreak Hitz with DJ Slim on May 13, 2025, King Promise admitted that at a point, he believed awards didn’t define an artiste’s true value.
“I’m one who used to believe that awards don’t validate you for exactly who you are and your job but I also saw like the intensity in the running, how it even shook my spirit, I was like I like this feeling.
“It’s not even about validation, but it’s also about your people recognising and also crowning you. I feel like that moment, it’s something special and I would have shot myself in the foot I didn’t push for it” he stated.
He added that the fact that he has been nominated for Artiste of the Year multiple times shows how consistent he has been in his craft.
“I just thought the fact that I’ve been nominated for Artiste of the Year consistently just shows the consistency in my work as well because it wasn’t my first time.
“I’ve been nominated for Artiste of the Year for like three or four times and it was a very close call last year so that kind of like wet my appetite a bit. Before then, I was just relaxed about it” King promise said.
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