Did You Know? Sajjad Musa, The Designer Behind Burna Boy’s Bank Notes
The album artwork for Burna Boy’s African Giant album is one of the notes specially created to promote the African Giant message. A number of notes with a variety of images printed on them were released, and the images on each note represent Burna Boy’s commentary on the Nigerian/African situation. The note on the album […]
Grammy 2020: Burna Boy’s African Giant Nominated for Best World Music Album
Burna Boy is officially a Grammy-nominated singer. It was revealed this week that his album, African Giant, will be a contender in the Best World Music Album category at the 2020 Grammy Awards. The Grammy Award for Best World Music Album is given to recording artists for quality albums in the world music genre. African […]
Burna Boy, Nominated for 2020 Grammy Awards
Burna Boy has been nominated for the Grammy Awards. This was announced from the official twitter handle of the Academy Awards. Burna’s African Giant album was nominated alongside Aitun Gun’s GECE, WHAT HEAT by Bokanté & Metropole Orkest Conducted by Jules Buckley, FANM D’AYITI by Nathalie Joachim With Spektral Quartet, and CELIA by the legendary […]
The Astonishing Success Of Burna Boy In America, According to Nielsen Music And The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) is an American, internationally read daily newspaper that sells physical and digital copies. America’s largest newspaper by paid circulation. The WSJ releases a new edition six times a week. As at June 2019, the WSJ was selling an average of about 1.8 million copies per issue. This means that every […]
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Burna Boy Refunds Fans Money For Not Dancing During His Show This week, Afrofusion star Burna Boy, shocked fans when he stopped midway during a performance to berate a fan for not dancing. He went on to refund the man’s money and asked security to escort him out of the show. However, he reportedly later […]
Entertainment Events this September
The year is coming to a quick end. At this point most of us are already planning for the impending excitement of December. To keep you stimulated, we’ve compiled a short list of events that might be worth your time this September. Priceless – A Solo Art Exhibition Yusuf Durodola is a painter and performance […]
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Rema Makes Obama’s Summer Playlist Mavins Star Rema has been on the rise since the release of his album Iron Man and this time around, he gained a “VVIP” fan in the person of Barack Obama. In a tweet, Obama unveiled the summer playlist he and Michelle have been listening to for the summer and […]
The Best of Burna Boy’s Epic Year
Last week, Sir Elton John featured Burna Boy’s hit song Anybody on his weekly radio show Rocket Hour. He called the track ‘fantastic’ and gave Burna Boy some quick praise. The recognition was a huge honor. Sir Elton John is a distinguished British pop rock icon and one of the highest selling music artists in […]
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Burnaboy On The Daily Show With Trevor Noah In a bid to promote his new album ‘African Giant’, Burnaboy has been making appearances on some American TV shows. This week he was on The Daily Show where he sat down for a chat with Trevor Noah and performed his hit songs “Anybody” and “Ye”. This […]
Wizkid, Burna Boy, Davido Dominate Song Sales on Billboard World Chart
August is looking like a good month for Nigerian music. 2019 has definitely been a good year. Wizkid’s latest feature, Brown Skin Girl, has spent 2 weeks at Number 1 on Billboard World Digital Song Sales Chart. Davido is at Number 3 with Blow My Mind, and Burna Boy made two new entries on the […]
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Desmond Elliot This week, Desmond Elliot, was under fire for a statement he made about Nollywood during an interview. According to him, “Government has to ban the importation of foreign movies so that Nollywood can grow. Make it difficult for foreign content to come in, so your local content can grow”. Here is how Nigerians […]
Beyonce Features Top Nigerian Music Acts In Her New Album
The most populous black nation is home to some of the popular music acts the globe has seen, stars like Davido, Wizkid, Tiwa Savage, Olamide and a host of others are currently on top of their game, putting Nigeria and Africa on the global map. On Friday, July 19, 2019, famous world music act Beyonce […]
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Wole Soyinka’s Plane Seat Incident One of the highlights of the week was a tweet by Nigeria politician Tonye Cole in which he recounted an experience he witnessed between a young man and Wole Soyinka on a plane. In the tweet, he called out the young man for asking Wole Soyinka to leave his seat […]
2019 Mid-Year Highlights
With few days left to close in on the second half of the year, Connect Nigeria does a recap of remarkable things that have happened in Nigeria in 2019 so far.
Burna Boy Wins BET Award For Best International Act
Afrobeat singer, Burna Boy, has won the BET award for Best International Act at the awards which held on Sunday, June 23, 2019, at the Microsoft Theatre, Los Angeles, USA. The “African Giant” was nominated with Aka (South Africa), Aya Nakamura (France), Dave (Uk), Dosseh (France), Giggs (Uk), and Mr. Eazi (Nigeria) in the Best […]
Burna Boy Clinches African Artist Of The Year At VGMA 2019
Nigerian Afro-Fusion singer Damini Ogulu, known professionally as Burna Boy, has been awarded the “African Artiste of the Year” at the just-concluded Vodafone Ghana Music Awards – the biggest annual entertainment event in Ghana. Bruna Boy succeeds Davido, who won the award at the 2018 edition, continuing the string of Nigerians standing tall as Africa’s […]