{"id":1476,"date":"2018-12-18T21:27:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T21:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/?p=1476"},"modified":"2018-12-23T09:46:51","modified_gmt":"2018-12-23T09:46:51","slug":"i-contaminated-myself-with-friends-amy-newman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/18\/i-contaminated-myself-with-friends-amy-newman\/","title":{"rendered":"I \u201ccontaminated\u201d myself with friends \u2013 Amy Newman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Celebrated gospel musician Amy Newman now known as Amy Amber Newman \nhas revealed that her absence in the music scene for about 14 years was \ndue to the sort of friends she was keeping, which God didn\u2019t like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said during the period, she tried on different occasions to \nrecord songs but it didn\u2019t work, &nbsp;referring to it as her \u201ctime in the \nwilderness,\u201d adding that the friends she kept contaminated her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Revealing her ordeal to Giovanni Caleb on the Starr Drive Monday, the\n \u201cOye Adom\u201d singer said \u201cand it\u2019s not that I didn\u2019t want to come out, I \nwanted to, but it\u2019s like anytime I try to come out with a song it \ndoesn\u2019t work. I don\u2019t know what was preventing me, I don\u2019t know &nbsp;what \nwas fighting it. I will go to the studio, I will pay money and then I \ndon\u2019t know what happens. The song doesn\u2019t work anymore\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnd I realized that sometimes as a child of God, you can contaminate\n yourself with something that God doesn\u2019t want you to involve yourself, \nit can be friends, for mine it was friends. The company that I was in, \nGod didn\u2019t like it, meaning that I was contaminating myself because \nanytime He tries to get my attention, I\u2019m with friends.&nbsp; And the \nconversations that we have might not be pleasing to God. I may not even \nsay what they are saying, but once I\u2019m in their midst, I have \ncontaminated my spirit,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The singer added \u201cin my 9<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;year with those friends, and \nthen I realized that, no, I have sinned against God and then I separated\n myself from every so called friend. And these people, they are all \nchurch goers, they are all Christians. And you think that they are \nChristians and if you are in their midst there\u2019s nothing wrong, but God \ndidn\u2019t want them to be around them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 58-year-old singer who has rebranded is promoting her recently released song and video titled \u201cSiesie Me\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Explaining the concept behind the song, she said \u201cSiesie me is the  name God gave me in the time of my wilderness. In that wilderness  journey, that\u2019s when this Siesie Me song came\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/233times.com\/2018\/12\/i-contaminated-myself-with-friends-amy-newman\/\">233times.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Celebrated gospel musician Amy Newman now known as Amy Amber Newman has revealed that her absence in the music scene for about 14 years was <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/18\/i-contaminated-myself-with-friends-amy-newman\/\" title=\"I \u201ccontaminated\u201d myself with friends \u2013 Amy Newman\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[288,182],"class_list":["post-1476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-amy-newman","tag-music"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - 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