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Kidjo dedicates her Grammy Award to Burna Boy

Beninese ace singer, Angélique Kidjo, has dedicated her fourth Grammy Award won on Sunday to Nigerian Afro-fusion singer, Damini Ogulu, better known as Burna Boy.

Recall that Burna Boy lost the Best World Music Album trophy to Beninese ace singer, Angélique Kidjo, at the 62nd Grammy Award held on Sunday night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, US.

Burna Boy was nominated for the category for his ‘African Giant’ album alongside Altin Gun (Gece), Bokante and Metropole Orkest Conducted By Jules Buckley (What Heat), Nathalie Joachim With Spektral Quartet (Fanm D’ayiti) and Angelique Kidjo (Celia).

Burna Boy Breaks Silence After Grammy Award Loss

On January 26, 2020, Nigerian superstar, Burna Boy lost the Grammy Award for Best World Music Album to Beninise legend, Angelique Kidjo and her critically-acclaimed album, Celia.

After a few hours of no social media activity by Burna Boy – who didn’t even post a picture of himself at the Grammy Awards – he has congratulated Angelique Kidjo on her win. A few hours ago, he took to his Twitter account to express his excitement at Angelique Kidjo‘s win.

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Celebrity singer Wizkid is currently a topic of discussion on Twitter – Music lovers managed to drag the singer into Burna Boy’s loss at the recently concluded Grammy Awards – Some submitted that a lot of people only wanted the self-acclaimed African giant to win so that they can mock Wizkid Singer Ayodeji Balogun aka Wizkid is one of the most talked about artists in the Nigerian music industry. Interestingly, even when the singer is not saying or doing anything on social media, people always have something to say about him. Following the loss of singer Burna Boy at the recently concluded Grammy Awards, which took place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, on Sunday, January 26, many have managed to drag Wizkid into the matter.
Some music lovers took to Twitter with the claims that a lot of people only wanted Burna Boy to win the Best World Music Album category, so that they can use the opportunity to drag Wizkid and remind him about how he is far from being the biggest artist in Nigeria. Loyal fans of Wizkid flood social media to talk about his forthcoming studio album Made in Lagos
“One even said, Burna didn’t win that all his draft will now go to waste. I told him to change Burna’s name to Angelique Kidjo but he can’t, you know why? It’s cos it’s they are tweets meant to ridicule Wizkid… but God no shame us,” a tweet read
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some others that reacted to the first Grammy win of international rapper J.Cole, for his efforts on a collaborative project, wondered why Wizkid was not given the same recognition when a song he featured on was nominated.
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Well, it seems fans are just saying what they want as Wizkid was also among the Nigerianc celebrities that wished Burna Boy good luck at the award ceremony. See his tweet below: Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that Wizkid is set to drop another studio album in 2020. In light of this, fans and supporters of the singer took to social media to build anticipation ahead of the album release. The forthcoming body of work titled Made in Lagos appeared among the trending topics on Twitter.l

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