Burna Boy, Wizkid make Nigeria, Africa proud; winning Grammy Awards

Two Nigeria sensational singers Burna Boy and Wizkid have won their first Grammy awards at the  63rd Grammy Awards.

He won the ‘Best Global Music Album’ category at the 2021 Grammy Awards for ‘Twice As Tall‘, his 2020 project.

His album saw off competition from Antibalas’ ‘The Fu Chronicles’, Bebel Gilberto’s ‘Agora’, Anoushka Shankar’s ‘Love Letters’ and Tinariwen’s ‘Amadjar’ to clinch the much-coveted gong at the award ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday night.

This was the second time he would be nominated for the Grammy Awards.

He was nominated in the ‘Best World Music Album’ category for his ‘African Giant‘ album last year but lost to Angelique Kidjo, Beninese singer-songwriter.

Burna Boy had explained last year how his first Grammy loss left him “totally sick” and how the attendant experience informed his choice of ‘Twice As Tall’ as the title for his fifth album.

“Sick. Totally sick. But my musical Mother@angeliquekidjo told me everything I needed to understand about the Grammys. So now, I’m ‘Twice as Tall’ (that’s the name of my next album by the way dropping in July by the grace of the Most High),” he had said.

Another Nigerian music sensation, Wizkid also won his first-ever Grammy for his role in ‘Brown Skin Girl,’ a 2019 song by Beyonce, American singer.

This year’s edition of the awards was earlier scheduled for January but was postponed amid concerns over the coronavirus pandemic.

Wizkid achieved this because of his part on “Brown Skin Girl” alongside Beyonce, Saint Jhn and Blue-Ivy Carter. They won the award for Best Music Video.

“Brown Skin Girl” is a single off the Beyonce-produced album for Lion King titled The Lion King: The Gift and was nominated alongside Future’s Drake-featured Life is Good, Lockdown by Anderson Paak, Adore You  by Harry Styles, Goliath by Woodkid.

Wizkid and Burna Boy winning the Grammy on the same night can be said to be the biggest thing to ever happen to Nigeria and Africa.

Social-media has been on a frenzied mode as encomiums have continued to pour in for the Nigerian super stars.