- Safiu Kehinde
Another season to celebrate African music on the largest stage of all knock at the door of Nigerian artistes who had flown the country’s flag in the global space over the year.
The 2025 Grammy awards will again parade Burna Boy, Davido, Tems, Wizkid, and Yemi Alade amongst others for the second edition of Best African Music Performance category.
The inaugural edition of the award category held last year was won by South African music artist,Tyla, with her sensational 2023 jam titled ‘water’.
This year would see the South African not defending her title as Nigerian artists dominated the nomination list.
Tems will be leading the pack of Nigerians as she bagged three nominations including Best Global Album category which she will be contending for with fellow Nigerian artist, Rema.
On the other hand, Burna Boy will be going for his sixth nomination in sixth consecutive year- the first African artist to achieve such feat.
Meanwhile, a stellar run of the year with back-to-back collaborations saw Davido earning his 4th Grammy nomination.
A collaboration with Asake on MMS earned Wizkid his 5th nomination while the Mr. Money himself bagged his second ever Grammy nomination.