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Burna Boy, Tyla, Tems, Davido, Ayra Starr Nominated For 2024 MTV VMAs

ADEOLA YUSUF

MTV on Tuesday revealed the highly-anticipated list of nominees for the 2024 “VMAs”, celebrating artists whose cultural impact and work during the last 12 months have revolutionized the music industry and sparked global conversations. African global stars Burna Boy, Tems, Tyla, Davido Ayra Starr, Lojay, Pheelz have earned nominations in the “Best Afrobeats” category, with Tyla securing three nods in the “Best Afrobeats”, “Best New Artist” and “Best R&B” categories. The awards show will air LIVE from UBS Arena, New York on Wednesday, 11 September at 1:00am WAT/ 02:00am CAT…

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Grammys Awards: Tyla Beats Ayra Starr, Burna Boy, Davido To Win Best African Music Performance

Ganiyu Amodu

South African first time Grammy Awards nominee, Tyla won the Grammy 2024 for Best African Music Performance Award, for her song ‘Water’, which had over 124 million streams in 2023. Water made Tyla the highest charting African female soloist ever to make it to the Billboards Hot 100. READ ALSO Shell Takes Final Investment Decision On Gas Supply To Dangote Shari’ah Council Urges EFCC To Unmask Terrorism Sponsors National Grid Collapses, Plunges Nigeria Into Nationwide Blackout The 22-year-old was nominated alongside Nigerian music giants Burna Boy, Davido, Asake, Olamide and…

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Elon Musk Removes Davido, Wizkid, Burna Boy, Other’s Verification Badges

Abibat Babalola

Microblogging site, Twitter has stripped notable Nigerian musicians of their Legacy verification tick. The microblogging platform, on Thursday, removed the verification badges of the Nigerian singers, Burna Boy, Davido, Wizkid and Peter Okoye. Recall that Twitter owner, Elon Musk, had in March, in a tweet accompanied by links to subscribe to the premium program, hinted at plans to commercialize verification tick. READ ALSO: AIT’s Austin Agbonsuremi Loses Wife To Cancer Saudi Lawyer Wants Ronaldo Deported For ‘Grabbing Genitals’ Openly Eid-ul-Fitr: Search for Shawwal Moon On Thursday, Sultan Tells Muslims He…

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BREAKING: Tems Becomes First Female Nigerian Grammy Winner in History

Precious Ibekwe

How she defeated Burna Boy, others at 65th edition of arguably music’s biggest award show to win her first Grammy with “Wait for you”   Nigerian singer, Temilade Openiyi popularly known as Baby Tems, has just won her first Grammy Award for her performance in American rapper Future’s “Wait For You”, where she was featured alongside Canadian singer Drake. The song won the “Best Melodic Rap Performance” category in the 65th edition of arguably music’s biggest award show. READ ALSO: NFF Pays Super Falcons Nations Cup Bonuses After 7 Months…

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Jamaican Female Rapper Shares Nude Picture in Bed With Burna Boy +PHOTO

Precious Ibekwe

Jamaican rapper, Diamond TheBody, has shared a nude photo of her in bed with Nigerian Grammy-award winning singer, Burna Boy. The photograph was shared by the Jamaican rapper on Twitter, a development that has set tongues wagging. READ ALSO: Kizz Daniel Returns To Smoking 3 Months After Publicly Quiting I gave Him Different Sex Positions, Yet He Left Me – Korra Obidi Sex-For-Grade: 4 Profs Affected As Nigerian Varsities Fire 18 Lecturers How Customer Killed, Burnt Lagos Sex Worker for Keeping Quran in Room Ryan Giggs Wanted Sex All The…

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Two Nigerian Superstars, Burnaboy, Wizkid Win Grammys, shine for Africa

Lukman Olasunkanmi

  Burnaboy, Nigerian singer, has won the ‘Best Global Music Album’ 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. Burna Boy is winning the Grammy for the first time. This is also the second time the ‘Ye’ crooner will be nominated for the prestigious awards. Burna Boy was nominated in the…

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