Burna Boy Officially Wins Grammy With 'Twice As Tall' Album

 

Burna Boy won the Best Global Music Album category while Wizkid won the Best Music Video for his song with Beyoncé; Brown Skin Girl, from Lion King: The Gift album.

Beyoncé's daughter Blue Ivy was also a winner on the song.

Burna Boy, real name Damini Ogulu, a nominee for a second consecutive year, won with his Twice As Tall album.

The 29-year-old beat four others including the Malian band, Tinariwen.

The Grammys described Twice As Tall as "a masterclass in the vibe and hustle that have made Burna Boy an international musical force".

"[He] maintains to torch limitations, seamlessly blending styles and genres and fearlessly fuelling the fire heating the melting pot of pop, Afrobeat, dancehall, reggae and more," it said.

The album functions a huge variety of worldwide artists consisting of Stormzy, Youssou Ndour, Naughty By Nature, and Chris Martin of Coldplay, and had Sean Combs as government producer.

Second time lucky
Burna Boy become nominated within the same category in 2019 - then referred to as Best World Music Album - but lost out to Angelique Kidjo on the awards ceremony in 2020.

However, Kidjo dedicated her win to him, announcing: "Burna Boy is among the ones younger artists that come from Africa this is converting the way our continent is perceived and the way that African music is the bedrock of all tune."

Born in Nigeria's Port Harcourt, Burna Boy released his first album, LIFE, an acronym for Leaving an Impact For Eternity, in 2013.

That album turned into accompanied by the discharge of Redemption in 2015 and Outside in 2018 that protected the international hit music, Ye.

 

But it became together with his 2019 African Giant album that Burna Boy absolutely hit the global scene and earned his first Grammys nomination.

Often in comparison to Nigerian movie star Fela Ransome-Kuti, whose songs Burna has sampled generously, he has grow to be an increasing number of vocal about social reasons in Africa.

At the height of the xenophobic attacks in South Africa in 2019, he threatened to by no means set foot in the us of a again except the authorities took action, although he has due to the fact that executed within the us of a.

How come no person is speakme about it in Nairaland. Burna Boy together with his Twice as Tall Album wins Grammy. This is a bigggg deal. The First Nigeria solo Artist to win it