It was a disappointing outing for Nigerian Afrobeats stars as Burna Boy, Davido, Ayra Starr, Tems, Asake and Olamide failed to win at the 66th Grammy Awards.
The singers earned 10 nominations across five categories at the 2024 Grammy Awards.
Davido, who is a first time nominee, was nominated in 3 categories including ‘Best Global Album’ for ‘Timeless’ his latest album.
Others are ‘Best Global Music Performance’ for his track ‘Feel’ and ‘Best African Performance’ for his song ‘Unavailable’.
He, however, lost the ‘Best African Music’ category to Tyla’s ‘Water’, ‘Best Global Music Performance’ to ‘Pashto’ by Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer & Zakir Hussain featuring Rakesh Chaurasia, and ‘Best Global Album’ to Shakti’s ‘The Moment’.
Burna Boy, who was nominated in 4 categories, lost the ‘Best African Music’ category to Tyla’s ‘Water’, and ‘Best Global Music Performance’ to ‘Pashto’ by Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer & Zakir Hussain featuring Rakesh Chaurasia.
Shakti’s ‘The Moment’ won the ‘Best Global Album’ category while ‘Best Melodic Rap Performance’ went to Lil Durk’s ‘All My Life’ featuring J Cole.
The 2024 Grammy premiere ceremony is being held at the Peacock Theater in the early hours of Monday and broadcast live on GRAMMY.com and the Recording Academy’s YouTube channel.
