Grammy is the biggest music authority in the world and also serves as the biggest PR for any genre in general, Burna Boy album becomes the first Nigerian album to win a Grammy, the first Afrobeats album to win and the first Nigerian artistes to win a Grammy with his original work.

The first Nigerian born and breed mainstream artiste to be considered, nominated and awarded a Grammy Trophy for his solo project.

Scanning across Nigeria Grammy award winners and nominees of all time.

Lets pan below;

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Below are Nigerian Artistes who won Grammy for their contributions to foreign work.

Sikiru Adepoju won through collaborative work in the category for Best Contemporary World Music Album with Global Drum Project by Various artists.

Wizkid

Wizkid won his first-ever Grammy award in 2021 for the best music video with “Brown Skin Girl” by Beyonce, Saint Jhn featuring Blue Ivy Carter

Below are Nigerian Artistes who have received nominations for their original work

King Sunny Adé 

King Sunny Adé is the first-ever Nigerian to be nominated for Grammy awards in 1984 for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording category with his own album titled Syncro System, 1999 King Sunny Adé bags another nomination for Best Global Music Album with his album titled Odu

Femi Kuti

Femi Kuti holds the record of most nominated Nigerian artiste in Grammy Awards history, with four (4) nominations which include;

2003 for Best World Music Album category (Fight to Win)

2010 for Best Contemporary World Music Album category (Day by Day)

2012 for Best World Music Album category (Africa for Africa)

 2014 for Best World Music Album category (No Place for My Dream)

Babatunde Olatunji

Babatunde Olatunji was a Nigerian drummer and recording artist, In 1998, late Babatunde Olatunji bagged a nomination for Best Global Music Album with his album titled Love Drum Talk

Seun Kuti

Seun Kuti was nominated in the 2018 Grammy Awards for the Best World Music Album category for his album titled Black Times alongside his band Egypt 80.

Below are Nigerian Artistes who received nominations for their contributions to foreign work.

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was nominated in the 2015 Grammy award as a featured artist in Beyonce album for the album of the year category.

Kah-Lo

Kah-Lo is a Nigerian, appears as a featured artist on the song “Rinse & Repeat” by Riton for Best Dance Recording in 2017 Grammy awards.

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Navigating around all aspects of the significant exploits and the links to relatively connect Nigerian and possibly African that has participated in the Grammy awards directly or indirectly.

Grammy award is an award presented by the American learned academy of musicians, recording engineers, and producers, and other musical experts to acknowledge achievements and attainment in the world music industry.

However, It is considered one of the four apex yearly American entertainment awards in world history.

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The trophy portrays a very thin coating of gold somewhat regarded as a gramophone, which is carved from the shape of an early device for the spontaneous recording and reproduction of sound.

The first-ever Grammy Awards ceremony in history was held on May 4, 1959, over 63 years ago, to appreciate and honour the musical attainment by entertainers for the year 1958.

LeAnn Rimes is the youngest individual Grammy award winner in history at 14 years old, winning her first two awards in 1997.

There are long lists of Africans that have won the award since the establishment of the recording academy, ranging from South Africans, the Republic of Benin, and Nigeria notably.

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Spanning from Nigeria, the only individual Grammy award winner in history is a percussionist and recording artist called Sikiru Adepoju.

Sikiru Adepoju won through collaborative work in the category for Best Contemporary World Music Album with Global Drum Project by Various artists.

Nigerian Artistes who have received nominations for their original work

King Sunny Adé 

King Sunny Adé is the first-ever Nigerian to be nominated for Grammy awards in 1984 for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording category with his own album titled Syncro System, 1999 King Sunny Adé bags another nomination for Best Global Music Album with his album titled Odu

Babatunde Olatunji

Babatunde Olatunji was a Nigerian drummer and recording artist, In 1998, late Babatunde Olatunji bagged a nomination for Best Global Music Album with his album titled Love Drum Talk

Femi Kuti

Femi Kuti holds the record of most nominated Nigerian artiste in Grammy Awards history, with four (4) nominations which include; 2003 for Best World Music Album category (Fight to Win), 2010 for Best Contemporary World Music Album category (Day by Day), 2012 for Best World Music Album category (Africa for Africa) and 2014 for Best World Music Album category (No Place for My Dream).

Seun Kuti

Seun Kuti was nominated in the 2018 Grammy Awards for the Best World Music Album category for his album titled Black Times alongside his band Egypt 80.

Burna Boy

Burna Boy has two grammy award nominations, becoming the first-ever Nigerian to be nominated in two consecutive years, in 2020 for the Best World Music Album category (African Giant), and 2021 for the Best World Music Album category (Twice As Tall)

Nigerian Artistes who received nominations for their contributions to foreign work.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was nominated in the 2015 Grammy award as a featured artist in Beyonce album for the album of the year category.

Wizkid

Wizkid has two Grammy Awards nominations which include, in Drake’s Views album (Wizkid appears as a featured artist and co-producer on one of the songs on the album) for the album of the year category in 2017 and as collaborative work in the 2021 Best Music Video category with Beyonce and Blue Ivy Carter.

Kah-Lo

Kah-Lo is a Nigerian, appears as a featured artist on the song “Rinse & Repeat” by Riton for Best Dance Recording in 2017 Grammy awards.

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