How Afrobeat stole the show at 63rd Grammys
Nigeria’s Burna Boy and Wizkid won their first Grammy awards at the 63rd Grammy Awards on Sunday night.
The Best Music Video and Best Global Music Album wins respectively marked their first career Grammy.
Burna Boy is the first winner of the recently renamed category, formerly called the Best World Music category.
Wizkid won as a featured artist on Beyoncé’s ‘Brown Skin Girl’ alongside Saint Jhn and Blue-Ivy Carter.
Other Nigerian artistes such as Tiwa Savage, Femi Kuti, and Made Kuti got nods for their contributions to Coldplay’s Everyday Life nominated for Album of The Year.
Femi and Made were featured on ‘Arabesque’ where Femi Kuti played a solo, and Tiwa Savage worked on ‘Eko.’
Nigeria’s social media scene went ecstatic over the wins, quickly topping trend tables over the recognition of Afrobeats on a global scale.
Afrobeat, also known as Afro-pop, is used to describe popular music genre from West Africa, made popular by Nigeria, Ghana, and the UK between 2000 and 2010.
Through artistes like Davido, Burna Boy, and Wizkid garnering accolades and critical acclaims from the global music community, international musicians like Beyoncé, Jay Z, Kanye West, Diddy, Drake, Chris Brown, Nicki Minaj, Cardi B have supported Afrobeat, turning the world’s eyes on Africa.
It heavily features various elements of West Africa’s fuji music and highlife. In its development, it was infused with American jazz, soul, and funk.
Central to the music are vocals, complex intersecting rhythms, and percussion, popularised by multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Fela Kuti.
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