Grammy Award: Burna Boy loses Best World Music Album to Beninese Angélique Kidjo

Nigerian Afro-fusion singer, Damini Ogulu, higher generally known as Burna Boy, has misplaced the Greatest World Music Album trophy to Beninese ace singer, Angélique Kidjo, on the 62nd Grammy Award.

The Information Company of Nigeria (NAN) studies that the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards ceremony, acclaimed to be world’s most prestigious music honours, held on Sunday night time on the Staples Heart in Los Angeles, U.S.

The extremely coveted Greatest World Music Album is an honor introduced to recording artists for high quality albums on the planet music style on the grammy.

Burna Boy was nominated for the class for his ‘African Big’ album alongside Altin Gun (Gece), Bokante and Metropole Orkest Carried out By Jules Buckley (What Warmth), Nathalie Joachim With Spektral Quartet (Fanm D’ayiti) and Angelique Kidjo (Celia).

The Grammy Award nominees are albums containing at the least 51 per cent enjoying time of recent vocal or instrumental World Music recordings.

Kidjo, now together with her fourth Grammy win general within the class, is a 59-year-old singer-songwriter, actress and activist famous for her numerous musical influences and inventive music movies.

She is thought for her hit songs “Agolo”, “We We”, “Adouma”, “Wombo Lombo”, “Afirika”, “Batonga” and “Celia”, which clinched the fourth Grammy for her and was named “Africa’s premier diva” by Time journal in 2007.

Throughout her acceptance speech, Kidjo devoted the award to Burna Boy and celebrated a brand new era of African artists coming as much as characterize the continent.

“That is for Burna Boy,” she stated, lifting up her award to cheers, and declaring the “African Big” as a part of the brand new era of African musicians which are altering international notion of Africa and its music.

“4 years in the past on this stage, I used to be telling you that the brand new generations of artists coming from Africa gonna take you by storm and the time has come,” Kidjo stated.

NAN studies that a win for Burna Boy would have made it the second time a Nigerian could be returning residence with the Grammy plaque, as Sikiru Adepoju is the one Nigerian to have gained a Grammy.

Adepoju gained it in 2009 with the “World Drum Challenge” a collaborative album with Mickey Hart, Zakir Hussain and Giovanni Hidalgo.

Burna Boy in 2019, gained Greatest Worldwide Act on the 2019 BET Awards, and was additionally the Apple Music’s Up Subsequent artist.

The Annual Grammy Awards ceremony, now in its 62 version, recognises one of the best recordings, compositions, and artists of the eligibility 12 months.

Billie Eilish 18-year-old American singer and songwriter, swept the highest awards of the 2020 Grammy, successful Album of the Yr, File of the Yr, Tune of the Yr and Greatest New Artist. (NAN)