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Nigeria Afrobeats stars Burna Boy and Wizkid have both won honors at the 2021 Grammys


Burna Boy won the Best Global Music Album class while Wizkid won the Best Music Video for his melody with BeyoncĂ©; Brown Skin Girl, from Lion King: The Gift collection. 

BeyoncĂ©'s little girl Blue Ivy was additionally a champ on the melody. 

The Best Music Video grant is given to the craftsman, video chief and video maker.  

Burna Boy, genuine name Damini Ogulu, a candidate for a second sequential year, won with his Twice As Tall collection. 

The 63rd Grammy Awards is being held in Los Angeles. Generally charged as "music's greatest evening", the current year's service is distinctive on account of the Covid pandemic. 

There is no crowd, and entertainers have been isolated onto five phases, masterminded in a circle inside the Los Angeles Convention Center to keep up friendly removing. 

The Grammys designation portrayed Twice As Tall as "a masterclass in the vibe and hustle that have made Burna Boy a global melodic power". 

"[He] keeps on burning constraints, consistently mixing styles and sorts and valiantly fuelling the fire warming the mixture of pop, Afrobeat, dancehall, reggae and then some," it said.  

The collection includes a wide scope of worldwide craftsmen like Stormzy, Youssou Ndour, Naughty By Nature, and Chris Martin of Coldplay, and had Sean Combs as leader maker. 

The video which saw Wizkid win was portrayed as "a dining experience for the design forward and a festival of Black and earthy colored female magnificence all over the place". 

Burna Boy was assigned in a similar classification in 2019 - at that point known as Best World Music Album - however missed out to Angelique Kidjo at the honors service in 2020. 

Notwithstanding, Kidjo committed her success to him, saying: "Burna Boy is among those youthful craftsmen that come from Africa that is changing the manner in which our mainland is seen and the way that African music is the bedrock of all music." 

Brought into the world in Nigeria's Port Harcourt, Burna Boy delivered his first collection, LIFE, an abbreviation for Leaving an Impact For Eternity, in 2013. 

That collection was trailed by the arrival of Redemption in 2015 and Outside in 2018 that incorporated the global hit track, Ye.  

However, it was with his 2019 African Giant collection that Burna Boy truly hit the worldwide scene and procured his first Grammys selection. 

Regularly contrasted with Nigerian hotshot Fela Ransome-Kuti, whose melodies Burna has examined liberally, he has gotten progressively vocal about friendly causes in Africa. 

At the stature of the xenophobic assaults in South Africa in 2019, he took steps to never go to the country again except if the public authority made a move, despite the fact that he has since acted in the country. 

He was likewise firmly associated with the #EndSARS against police mercilessness fights in Nigeria a year ago, setting up an asset for casualties and delivering a tune in memory of those executed on 20 October 2020 at the Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos. 

He likewise as of late tweeted his help for nonconformists in Senegal who rampaged after the capture of resistance pioneer Ousmane Sonko.

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