Burna Boy gets Grammy nomination for Best World Music

 

BY OUR EDITOR

Burna Boy’s African Giant album has been nominated for ‘Best World Music’ category in the recently released list for the 2020 Grammy Awards.

The nomination is for albums containing at least 51% playing time of new vocal or instrumental World Music recordings.

In the same category are Anatolian rock and Turkish Psychedelic Folk band from The Netherlands, Altin Gün (GECE); Bokanté & Metropole Orkest Conducted By Jules Buckley (WHAT HEAT); Nathalie Joachim With Spektral Quartet (FANM D’AYITI) and Angelique Kidjo (CELIA).

Fellow Nigerian artists including Wizkid, Davido, May D, Iyanya, Patoranking, Runtown, Banky W, among others have taken to social media to send congratulatory messages to the Ye crooner.

African Giant is Burnaboy’s fourth studio album which was released on July 26, 2019, and has 19 tracks, one of which is the monster hit, ‘Killin Dem’ that features Zlatan Ibile.

It would be recalled that fellow Nigerian artiste, Femi Anikulapo Kuti, had been previously nominated for a Grammy award, four times, in the world music category, in 2003, 2010, 2012 and 2013, but never won.