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The history of Ragga Dancehall artiste Kaaki, known in real life as Grace Kaaki Ocansey, is not one hidden in secrecy especially in the entertainment industry. She was raised by the Royal House Chapel aka �Ahenfie� in Accra when she was part of the contestants who were vying for the Stars of the future reality show title some years back. It can be noted that, even though Kaaki did not come up tops in the reality show, the church headed by their spiritual leader Rev. Sam Korankye Ankrah urged members of the church to support Kaaki by voting for her when she needed their votes more to win the competition. Fortunately or unfortunately for the �toffee pon tongue� artiste, that little fame and attention she grabbed, has been put to good use by herself and her able management team headed by Jay Master Jay. Master Jay enjoys pulling the strings of the artiste behind the screens but Sadique, blonde-haired television presenter of Viasat 1�s 30 minutes who happens to be her (Kaakie�s) publicist and manager takes care of the day-to-day running of the artiste, her activities and her promotions. Over the past weeks, snippets of information had been trickling through some informants from Royal House Chapel church that the leadership is not too enthused about the fact that Kaakie who happens to be a staunch member the Church�s choir group seems to be going astray because of his love for ragga dancehall music. Due to this, there had been constant pressure from the leadership of the church for Kaakie to disown that genre of music. When these complaints came to her first to redraw from the secular world, Kaaki declined. Due to this, she was not given the chance to sing at church despite her stength as a senior choir member. After some months of constant hit releases form her manager Jay Master Jay, Kaaki was not considering leaving the dancehall microphones at some programmes to perform her hit songs, so she decided to abandon the church microphones and that added to her woes as a young female celebrity in our music industry. For the past two weeks, Kaaki has been performing at church to the admiration of the church elders and congregation alike and this is a clear sign that the artiste is now on good terms with the philosophy of ignoring all the worldly activities of dancehall and ragga music thing and now paying attention to the calling of God, her first love.