[news] List of Nigerian Artists that have Grammy Award’s in the Bag

 

Checkout this thread of Nigerian Artists that are Grammy Award winners/Artist who won as a featured artists.

1. Babatunde Olatunji - 1 Award received as a featured artist

Category: Best world music award 

Foreign work & artist: (Planet Drum) 1991

Late Pa Michael Babatunde Olatunji is the first Nigerian to receive a Grammy award during his time and he was an excellent drummer, educator, social activist, and recording artist. 

According to Wikipedia, he is a native of Ajido-Badagry, Lagos state, and was part of Mickey Hart’s Planet Drum projects, including the album Planet Drum, which won the Grammy Award for Best World Music Album of 1991, the first year for which the award was given.

2.  Burna Boy - 1 Award based on their original work. 

Category: Best world music album 

Work: (Twice as tall) 2021

The “Las Las” crooner came to the limelight in 2012 after releasing ‘Like to Party’, the lead single from his debut studio album L.I.F.E. In the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards, his ‘Twice as Tall’ album won the Best World Music Album

3. Sikiru Adepoju - 1 Award received as a featured artist.

Category: Best Contemporary World Music Album.

Foreign work & artist: (Global Drum Project by Various artists) 2009.

He first won a Grammy in 1991 as a part of Mickey Hart’s group Planet Drum, whose title album won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music Album and that was the first time there was a Grammy in that category.

He won again on February 8, 2009 as a part of Mickey Hart’s latest group Global Drum Project whose title album won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music Album at the 51st annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.

4. Wizkid - 1 Award received as a featured artist.

Category: Best Music Video 

Foreign work & artist: (Brown Skin Girl" by Beyonce, Saint Jhn & Wizkid featuring Blue Ivy Carter) 2021

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The raving, iconic singer and songwriter, Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, popularly known as Wizkid, won his first Grammy award after featuring in Beyoncé’s Brown Skin Girl Video. They won the Best Music Video category in the 2021 Grammy awards

5. Tems - 1 Award received as a featured artist.

Category: Best Melodic Rap Performance Foreign work & artist: (Wait For U" by Future ft Drake & Tems) 2023. 

Tems’ 27, is also the first non-mixed Nigerian female musician to win the prestigious award under the ‘Best Melodic Rap performance’ category. Sade Adu , who won the Grammy for ‘Best new artist’ in 1986, and Cynthia Erivo , who bagged ‘Best theatre Album’ in 2017, were British Nigerians. The Afrobeats singer has added this to her list of accomplishments following her Africa Future awards win and her Oscar nomination .

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