Afrobeat artist Odogwu Burna Boy received two nominations at the 2023 Grammy Awards.
Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. and Chairman of the Board Tammy Hurt, as well as several special guests, took part in the Academy’s live broadcast of the Grammys on Tuesday to announce the list of nominees. to the 2022 Grammy Awards from the GRAMMY Museum in Los Angeles.
Burna Boy is nominated for Best Global Music Act along with other African superstars including Aroo Aftab and Anoushka Shankar, Matt B and Eddy Kenzo, Rocky Dawuni and Blvk H3ro and Wouter Kellerman, Zakes Bantwini and Nomceb Zikode.
An album of heavy Nigerian Afrobeats Love, it was Damini nominated for Best Global Music Album at the 65th Grammy Awards. He faces competition from Angélique Kidjo & Ibrahim Maalouf – Queen of Sheba, Anoushka Shankar, Metropole Orkest & Jules Buckley with Manu Delago – Between Us… (Live), Rocky Dawumi’s Bunbon’s Voice, Volume IMasa Takumi – Sakura and Berklee Indian Set – Shuruaat.
Wizkid, Davido and other Nigerian artists were not nominated for the 2023 Grammy Awards.
At the 2021 awards, Burna Boy and Wizkid won their first Grammys. For her work on the song Brown Skin Girl with singer Beyonce and her daughter Blue Ivy, Wizkid won the Best Music Video Grammy.
Burna Boy is now the first and only artist from Africa to receive four GRAMMY nominations since 2019.
- 2019 — “African Giant”
- 2020 – “Twice as High”
- 2021 — “Do It Yourself” and Pravda [Album]
- 2022 – “Love, ma’am” and “Last last”.
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Source: newstars.edu.vn