The 2025 Grammy Awards are fast approaching, thereby keeping the entertainment scene on their toes. There’s so much anticipation in the air as who the Award bearers will be.
The event which will be hosted by Trevor Noah has been fixed for Sunday February in Los Angeles, at the Crypto.com arena.
In this post, we’re going to be revealing the artists who have placed African music on the global map and their various nominations.
Rocky Dawuni
Rocky Dawuni is a Ghanaian artist has been nominated for the second time was for the Best Global Music Performance.
Shaboozey
Shaboozey is an artist in the American scene but he has his roots from Nigeria. He has a whooping five nominations this year in the categories of Best Rap Performance in “Spaghetti”, Best Rap Song in “A Bar Song”, Song of the Year in “A Bar Song”, and Best Melodic Rap Performance in “Spaghetti”.
Asake
Wizkid and Asake got nominations for Best African Music on their collaboration on “MMS”. So far, this is Wizkid’s 5th nomination and Asake’s 2nd.
Yemi Alade
Yemi Alade bagged a nomination for the Best African Music Performance Category for her song “Tomorrow”. This is a huge one as this is her first ever nomination.
Burna Boy
Burna Bagged yet another nomination being the 11th one for Best African Music Performance from his songs “Higher” and “I Told Them”.
Tems
Tems bagged three nominations this year for Best Global Music Album for her album “Born in the Wild”, Best African Music performance for her son “Jeje” and Best R&B song for “Burning”.
Davido
Davido bagged his fourth nomination for the Grammy Awards so far for Best African Music Performance with “Sensational” with Chris Brown and Lojay.
Rema
It’s indeed a groundbreaking moment for Rema as he bagged her first ever nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Global Music with his album “HEIS”.
Angélique Kidjo
Angelique Kidjo has had quite a number of wins through the years and this year she has been nominated for Best Global Music Performance with her song “Sunlight to My Soul”.
