TREASURE
2026Single
June, on Flip The Music. The first solo release since the album.
23:59The world goes quiet
Gyakie: After Midnight
Almost every song on this record was written after midnight, the hour when the noise drops out and the truth gets easier to say.
- Origin
- Kumasi, Ghana
- Sound
- Afro-fusion · Highlife · R&B
- Debut album
- 29 August 2025
Debut album out now. After Midnight. 17 tracks. 6LACK. Shatta Wale. Headie One. Kojey Radical. Omar Sterling. Young Jonn. Sankofa. Kumasi to the world.
Sankofa is an Akan adinkra symbol: a bird turning its head to take an egg from its own back. Go back and retrieve what was left behind. It is the name of the song that opened this era, and the instruction the whole record follows.
00:41Sankofa
Go back and fetch it
Jackline Acheampong grew up in Kumasi, in Ghana's Ashanti Region, inside the sound of highlife. Her father is Nana Acheampong, one of the genre's defining voices, which meant the music was never an ambition to be explained to anyone at home. It was furniture. It was in the room.
She released her first single, “Love Is Pretty,” in 2019 and signed to Flip The Music the same year. In August 2020 the Seed EP arrived carrying “Forever,” a song that went to number one in Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya and turned a student at KNUST into one of West Africa's most exportable voices. The 2021 remix with Omah Lay pushed it further, to platinum certification in South Africa.
Deals with Sony Music Entertainment Africa and RCA Records UK followed, then the My Diary EP in 2022, the same year she graduated from KNUST with a degree in International Business. She had built the thing most breakout artists never get: a second act.
After Midnight, released 29 August 2025, is the first full statement. Three years in the making, seventeen tracks, and a father sampled on his daughter's record. Sankofa, exactly as promised.
“A blend of softness and wildness.”
Lineage
Nana Acheampong
Highlife great · Father
Gyakie
Afro-fusion · Daughter
Sampled on “y2k luv”. Legacy handed forward, not borrowed.
01:33Debut album
After Midnight.
Late-night reflections and quiet prayers next to sweeping love songs and full-volume party records. It moves between slow-burning ballads, highlife grooves, stripped-back soul and amapiano-leaning anthems, and it never sounds like it is switching costumes.
- Released
- 29 August 2025
- Runtime
- 17 tracks · 42 min
- Labels
- Flip The Music · Sony Music Entertainment Africa · RCA Records UK
Tracklist
Titles are styled lowercase, as released.
- 01intro
- 02fire on the mountain
- 03damn uwith 6LACK
- 04harmattanwith Shatta Wale
- 05y2k luvwith Omar Sterling
- 06sankofa
- 07after midnight (interlude)
- 08i'm not takenwith Headie One
- 09no one
- 10breaking news
- 11house partywith Young Jonn
- 12unconditional
- 13story
- 14want it
- 15party galorewith Kojey Radical
- 16is it worth it?
- 17hallelujah
02:17The Archive
Everything before tonight
After Midnight
2025Album
Seventeen tracks. The first full statement.
unconditional
2025Single
Out in July, seven weeks ahead of the album it sits inside.
Sankofa
2025Single
Co-written with Eyram Gbewonyo. The prelude.
Days Pass By
2024Single
With KJ Spio, on Flip The Music.
December
2024Single
Released in April, in spite of the name.
Rent Free
2023Single
Nominated for Best Afropop Song the following year.
Apple Music Home Session
2022EP
Four tracks, recorded live for Apple Music.
My Diary
2022EP
Six tracks. The second act, written with the lights on.
Something
2022Single
Two Ghana Music Awards nominations followed.
Need Me
2021Single
August, and the first release after the Sony deal.
Forever (Remix)
2021Single
With Omah Lay. Certified platinum in South Africa.
Seed
2020EP
Five tracks. Carried “Forever” to three number ones.
Whine
2020Single
July, two weeks before the EP that changed everything.
Nana Nyame
2020Single
April. The first under the Flip The Music licence.
Sor Mi Mu
2020Single
With Bisa Kdei. Highlife, met head-on.
Control
2019Single
September, and the third single of the first year.
Never Like This
2019Single
June. Four months after the first, and steadier for it.
Love Is Pretty
2019Single
The first one. February, and no one was listening yet.
Scroll sideways · newest first
Featured on
- Call MeKJ Spio, Mavo & Gyakie2026
- US IIISwayvee & Gyakie2025
- Cheat On YouKiDi & Gyakie2025
- No Bad VibesJazzy, Gyakie & Joshua Baraka2025
- Fly Girl (Remix)Beeztrap KOTM feat. Gyakie & Oseikrom Sikanii2024
- Run AwayKhaid & Gyakie2024
- SudweSerge Ibaka & Gyakie2023
- ScarSong Bird, Gyakie & JBEE2023
- ParadiseAKA, Musa Keys & Gyakie2022
- Need Your LoveR2Bees feat. Gyakie2022
- Like ThisSerge Ibaka, Diplo & Gyakie2022
- I Love YouJux & Gyakie2022
- Right HereBlaq Jerzee, Gyakie & KJ Spio2021
- SheegeD-Black & Gyakie2021
- Follow YouFiokee, Chike & Gyakie2021
- SikaBisa Kdei feat. Gyakie2020
- FayaToluDaDi feat. Gyakie & Joojo Addison2020
- ShakaraMcBriggs feat. Kelvin Mo & Gyakie2019
03:04Visuals
The night shift
Campaign portraits and released artwork, from the first EP to the newest single.
Gyakie
After Midnight campaign · 2025
After Midnight
Album artwork · 2025
On the mic
Studio session · 2021
Photo by Foster Aggor, CC BY-SA 4.0
Sankofa
Single artwork · 2025
TREASURE
Single artwork · 2026
My Diary
EP artwork · 2022
04:12Live
On the road
05:30Milestones
Seven years, counted
- 2019
- Debut single “Love Is Pretty” released in February
- Signs to Flip The Music
- “Never Like This” and “Control” follow before the year is out
- 2020
- Seed EP: five tracks, released August
- “Forever” tops the charts in Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya
- 2021
- “Forever” remix with Omah Lay
- Certified platinum in South Africa
- Emerging Woman of the Year at the 3Music Awards
- 2022
- My Diary EP
- Woman of the Year at the 3Music Awards
- International Collaboration of the Year for the “Forever” remix at the Ghana Music Awards
- Graduates KNUST, BSc International Business
- 2023
- Wins Record of the Year for “Far Away” at the 24th Ghana Music Awards
- My Diary nominated for Album of the Year
- “Something” nominated for Best Afrobeats Song
- 2024
- “December” and “Days Pass By” released
- Four nominations at the 25th Telecel Ghana Music Awards
- 2025
- “Sankofa” released in May
- “unconditional” follows in July
- Debut album After Midnight, 29 August
- 2026
- After Midnight nominated for Album/EP of the Year at the 27th Telecel Ghana Music Awards
- “Sankofa” nominated for Best Afropop Song
- “TREASURE” released in June
Awards and nominations
Newest first · wins marked
2026
27th Telecel Ghana Music Awards
- Album/EP of the Year: After Midnight, nominated
- Best Afropop Song: “Sankofa”, nominated
- Best Afrobeats/Afropop Artiste of the Year, nominated
2024
25th Telecel Ghana Music Awards
- International Collaboration of the Year: “Scar”, nominated
- Most Popular Song of the Year: “Scar”, nominated
- Best Afropop Song: “Rent Free”, nominated
- Best Afrobeats/Afropop Artiste of the Year, nominated
2023
24th Ghana Music Awards
- Record of the Year: “Far Away”, won
- Album of the Year: My Diary, nominated
- Best Afrobeats Song: “Something”, nominated
- Most Popular Song of the Year: “Something”, nominated
- Best Afrobeats/Afropop Artiste of the Year, nominated
2022
The Headie Awards
- Best West African Artiste of the Year, won
3Music Awards
- Woman of the Year, won
- Artiste of the Year, nominated
- Afrobeats/Afropop Act of the Year, nominated
Ghana Music Awards
- International Collaboration of the Year: “Forever (Remix)” ft. Omah Lay, won
- Album or EP of the Year: Seed, nominated
2021
3Music Awards
- Emerging Woman of the Year, won
- Breakthrough Act of the Year, nominated
- EP of the Year: Seed, nominated
Ghana Music Awards
- Best New Artist, nominated
- Best Afrobeats/Afropop Song of the Year: “Forever”, nominated
- EP of the Year: Seed, nominated
Partners
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