{"id":19077,"date":"2024-02-26T10:02:51","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T10:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/singer-adekunle-gold-speaks-on-battle-with-sickle-cell\/"},"modified":"2024-02-26T10:02:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T10:02:51","slug":"singer-adekunle-gold-speaks-on-battle-with-sickle-cell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/singer-adekunle-gold-speaks-on-battle-with-sickle-cell\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer Adekunle Gold speaks on battle with sickle cell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Popular Nigerian singer Adekunle Kosoko, professionally called Adekunle Gold, has finally opened up about his battle with sickle cell.<\/p>\n<p>The singer stated that he was diagnosed with sickle cell at birth.<\/p>\n<p>He paid tribute to sickle cell survivors during his latest stage performance.<\/p>\n<p>In a now trending video on the internet, he expressed gratitude to God for a successful career and global recognition without significant health setbacks. He encouraged those with similar health challenges to remain resilient and determined in pursuing their life goals.<\/p>\n<p>The singer, however, dedicated his performance of the song \u201c5 Star\u201d to sickle cell survivors.<\/p>\n<p>Video<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Adekunle Gold sends heartwarming message to sickle cell survivors stating that he\u2019s also a survivor pic.twitter.com\/0fubRQ11xk<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dami\u2019 Adenuga (@DAMIADENUGA) February 25, 2024<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Singer Adekunle Gold speaks on battle with sickle cell<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular Nigerian singer Adekunle Kosoko, professionally called Adekunle Gold, has finally opened up about his battle with sickle cell. The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11324,4,15],"tags":[1181,171,3459,180],"class_list":["post-19077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adekunle-gold","category-entertainment","category-news","tag-adekunle","tag-entertainment","tag-gold","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}