The 67th edition of the Grammy Awards held at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles United States on Sunday. Beyoncé’s genre-blending smash “Cowboy Carter” won the Grammy Award for album of the year. The popular singer now holds the record as the most nominated artist in the history of the Recording academy. She has been nominated […]
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The nominees for the highly anticipated 67th Academy Grammy Awards were on Friday unveiled, with several Nigerian artistes making the list. Yemi Alade, Asake, Wizkid, Davido, Lojay, Burna Boy and Tems are nominated in the ‘Best African Music Performance’ category dominated by Nigerians. Tems was also nominated in the ‘Best R&B Song’ category alongside Ronald Banful for […]
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Nigerian singers Davido (David Adeleke) and Burna Boy (Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu), have failed to win any of their categories at the 2024 Grammy Awards. Davido, who is a first-time Grammy nominee, was nominated in three categories — including ‘Best Global Album’ for his latest album, ‘Timeless’. Others are ‘Best African Performance’ for his song ‘Unavailable’ […]
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Spotify, on Friday, announced Rwandan-Ugandan jazz singer and songwriter Somi as the latest African singer to join its EQUAL Music Program. Spotify created EQUAL as a global initiative to cultivate gender equality in music and support female creators under one brand. The Grammy-nominated Somi is set to release a new album in July, that will pay tribute to the iconic Miriam […]
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Childish Gambino, also known as Donald Glover, shone in absentia at the 61st Grammy awards on Sunday. The creator of ‘This is America’ won four awards — including record and song of the year — but failed to attend the award ceremony. ‘This Is America’ also became the first hip-hop recording to win the song […]
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Seun Kuti, the Afrobeat singer, and son of the late legend, Fela, has been listed as one of the performers at the 61st Grammy Awards. Seun Kuti, who was nominated for Best World Music Album will perform with Malian singer/songwriter, Fatoumata Diawara, at the award’s Premiere Ceremony on February 10. A statement on the […]
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The 2019 Grammy nominations have been announced, with hip hop artistes, Kendrick Lamar and Drake, earning the most recognition. Lamar bagged eight nominations while Drake earned seven for the 61st annual Grammy Awards. Boi-1da and Brandi Carlile earned six nominations apiece while Cardi B, Childish Gambino, H.E.R., Lady Gaga, Maren Morris, Soundwave and Mike Bozzi […]
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Bruno Mars emerged the biggest winner at the 2018 Grammy Awards, as he won six trophies, including three of the top honours on Sunday night. Kendrick Lamar closely followed Bruno Mars by sweeping all the rap categories. Jay Z, who went into the awards as the highest nominated artiste, went home empty-handed. Below is a […]
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Shawn Corey Carter, popularly known as Jay-Z, who had never before been nominated in a major category as a solo artist, is up for Album of the Year for his “4:44” as well as for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. “4:44” marked a return to music by the 47-year-old Jay-Z after […]
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