Burna Boy Wins Best Global Music Album at 2021 Grammys

Burna Boy has won Best Global Music Album at the 2021 Grammy Awards. His album Twice as Tall won the award over records by Antibalas (FU Chronicles), Bebel Gilberto (Agora), Anoushka Shankar (Love Letters), and Tinariwen (Amadjar). The win marks Burna Boy’s first Grammy Award after being nominated last year.

In November, the Recording Academy announced plans to change the name of Best World Music Album to Best Global Music Album, saying it’s a step toward “a more relevant, modern, and inclusive term.” The statement added: “The change symbolizes a departure from the connotations of colonialism, folk, and ‘non-American’ that the former term embodied while adapting to current listening trends and cultural evolution among the diverse communities it may represent.”

The Best Music Video award is given to the artist, video director and video producer.

Burna Boy, real name Damini Ogulu, a nominee for a second consecutive year, won with his Twice As Tall album.

The 63rd Grammy Awards is being held in Los Angeles. Traditionally billed as “music’s biggest night”, this year’s ceremony is different because of the coronavirus pandemic.

There is no audience, and performers have been separated onto five stages, arranged in a circle inside the Los Angeles Convention Center to maintain social distancing.

Reactions from fans and well-wishers ;

DJ Cuppy wrote ;

HISTORIC NIGHT for Nigerian Music! I’m jumping up and down!!! Congrats
@Wizkidayo & @BurnaBoy on their #GRAMMYs …When THEY win, WE all win too!

Chemical Brother wrote ;

Wizkid, Burna Boy and Davido are taking Afrobeats to astronomical levels and we are here for it!!!

We have Grammy winners among us and we are not stopping till we take over the world!!!

Olabisi wrote ;

The way Burna boy has worked so hard all his life.

No one can take this way from him.

From underrated to Grammy winner.

Always giving we outsiders bragging rights.

E choke, e asphyxiate, e press my airway

Congratulations African Giant.