Wizkid, Femi Kuti, Made Kuti, Burna Boy, and Tems are the five Nigerians nominated for the prestigious Grammy Awards
By Kehinde Okeowo
Nigerian singer and songwriter, Ayodeji Balogun, popularly known as Wizkid, has been nominated in two categories of the 64th Grammy Awards announced on Tuesday, by the Recording Academy.
The Academy also announced all the nominees for the 86 categories of the 2022 edition of the Grammy Awards.
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The show is expected to hold early next year and winners will be presented their awards on Monday, January 31, 2022.
Femi Kuti, Made Kuti and Wizkid were nominated in the Best Global Music Album category, while Burna Boy, Wizkid, and Tems were nominated for the Best Global Music Performance at the event.
The song ‘Made In Lagos’ by Wizkid and ‘Legacy+’ by Femi Kuti and Made Kuti got nominations in the Best Global Music Album, while Best Global Music Performance gave Wizkid and Tems another nod for ‘Essence,’ and Burna Boy for ‘Do Yourself’ by Angelique Kidjo.
Other Africans like Angelique Kidjo got two Grammy nods: one alongside Burna Boy in the Best Global Music Performance and another for ‘Mother Nature’, her 2021 album. SCNSLY by Black Coffee also got a nod for Best Dance Album.
Few Africans have won the Grammy Awards in the past either through solo effort or by collaborations with other artists.
In 1991, Babatunde Olatunji won the Best World Music Album for his collaboration in ‘Planet Drum’. Sukiru Adepoju also won the Best Contemporary World Music Album for his effort in the ‘Global Drum Project’.
As recently as 2021, Wizkid won the Best Music Video for featuring in ‘Brown Skin Girl’ by Beyonce. In the same year, Burna Boy won the Best World Music Album with his song ‘Twice as Tall’.
