Congratulations are in order for Nigerian singer Burna Boy as he has been nominated for the 63rd Grammy Awards which is set to take place on Sunday, January 31, 2021. The 2021 nomination makes it the second time that the Nigerian singer would be nominated. The Ye crooner was nominated for his recent album Twice As Tall under the Best Global Music Album.
Burna Boy was listed alongside an American, Brooklyn-based afrobeat band Antibalas, American singer Bebel Gilberto, British Indian singer Anoushka Shankar, and a group of Tuareg musicians from the Sahara Desert region of northern Mali called Tinariwen.
Congratulations 63rd #GRAMMYs Best Global Music Alum nominees: @Antibalas, @burnaboy, @bebelgilberto, @ShankarAnoushka, and @Tinariwen: https://t.co/vmaSA9BCsf pic.twitter.com/hfG70plBgo
— Recording Academy / GRAMMYs (@RecordingAcad) November 24, 2020