Bullet eulogises Ebony: I’m yet to believe you’re truly gone

Today, 8 February 2021, marks exactly three years since the demise of Ghanaian singer Priscilla Opoku-Kwarteng, popularly known as Ebony Reigns.

In memory of the singer, her former record label boss Bullet of Rufftown Records has written a very touching message.

“It’s been three years already! I am yet to believe, you are truly gone. You will forever be in my heart because in there you are still alive. Keep reigning queen,” he captioned a photo of the late Ebony on his Instagram page.

The news that shook a nation

The ’90’s Bad Gal’, as Ebony was commonly known, met her untimely death on 8 February 2018 in a motor crash at Bechem on the Kumasi-Sunyani highway together with two other persons Franklina Kuri and an ex-military official Atsu Vondee while returning from Sunyani to Accra after visiting her mom.

Achievements

The “Sponsor” hitmaker made great hits back to back which thrilled many music lovers across the country and beyond.

Some of her songs Ghanaians will never forget are ‘Hustle’, ‘Turn on the Light’, ‘Kupe’, ‘Date your Father’, ‘Maame hwe’, ‘Konkonsa Police’ amongst others.

Delivering electrifying performances on big stages and contributing to the success of Ghanaian music, Ebony emerged Artist of the Year at the 2018 edition of the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards, making her the first female to win the ultimate prize till date.

Coming out with the ‘Bonified’ album in 2017, Ebony bagged several awards including Merit Awards in 2017, Bass Awards 2017 where she won the Artiste of the Year, People’s Celebrity Awards, 4syte Music Video Awards, Jigwe Awards amongst others.

Ebony is irreplaceable, says Mzbel

Ebony Reigns was described as the new Mzbel due to the similarities in stage craft, performance and music genre.

On Asaase Radio’s Between Hours show with Naa Ashorkor early this year, Belinda Nana Ekua Amoah, also known as MzBel argued that Ebony is irreplaceable.

“Nobody can replace Ebony. They are all doing very well but nobody has been able to come out bold, careless like Ebony with good music like Ebony. Everybody comes with good music but they are very very careful. They come out careless but bad music,” she stated.

Family brings flowers to Ebony’s tomb

Meanwhile, parents, elder brother and some loved ones of the late Afrobeats and dancehall artiste visited her grave in the morning to mark three years of her death.

In a speech her father Opoku Kwarteng delivered at the graveyard before he laid the wreath, he recounted the purpose for the late singer’s visit to Sunyani, chatting with her that night, to the time an unknown person called him with news of her death.

“It’s today that’s her royal majesty Nana Hemaa, Ebony never returned from a journey she took. That journey was not about anything. My lady, her Royal Majesty, was going to see mom because she returned from the United Kingdom; to have one or two with her,” Kwarteng said.

“It was… late. It was about 11:47pm and I was chatting my Royal Highness, that she was coming the next day.

“And it was early in the morning that a call came. I don’t know where… telling me that her Royal Majesty had an accident and therefore she couldn’t survive,” he added.

Opoku Kwarteng continued that he “hoped someday soon”, the family and he “will get over her death, but the question is, when actually?”

He also added that, the family appreciates so much “the legacy she (Ebony) left for us… hence (they) acknowledge her anytime, any day; especially the day she passed on.”

Nana Kwarteng, elder brother of the late singer and Opoku Kwarteng, laid the wreath on her tomb while her mother, Beatrice Oppong and the gathering looked on.

Andrew Sepah and Nana Abena Boakye-Boateng

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