Grammys
19 Nov
Nigerian music star, Burna Boy, has been crowned the Best African Act at the MTV EMAs 2022. Announced during the pre-award ceremony, the recognition saw Burna best other nominees including Ayra Starr, Black Sherif, Musa Keys (South Africa) and Zuchu (Tanzania) following a widely successful music year.
16 Nov
Pop royalty Beyonce and Adele will face off at the Grammys once again after the music titans released blockbuster albums that vaulted them to the front of the list of 2023 nominees.
9 Nov
The musical landscape has transformed as a result of the work of songwriters. Many of the amazing hits we so dearly love would not exist without them. We hope that in the upcoming years, the historically low representation of songwriters in the music industry will continue to alter.
6 Jan 2022
The 2022 Grammy Awards scheduled to hold later this month,31st of January, has been postponed by organisers for the second year in a row due to the Covid-19 surge. "After careful consideration and analysis with city and state officials, health and safety experts, the artist community and our many partners, the Recording Academy and CBS…
15 Mar 2021
Pop megastar Beyonce made Grammys history Sunday by becoming the woman with the most Grammy awards ever at the music industry's top awards gala, and its most decorated singer, with 28 career wins. She secured the record after scooping Best R&B Performance honors for her hit "Black Parade," a single celebrating Black culture and activism…
14 Mar 2021
Congratulations are rolling in as Burna Boy just won his first Grammy Award. His Album "Twice as Tall" which was nominated alongside four others including Malian band Tinariwen and US band Antibalas has just won the Best Global Music Album. It is the second Grammy nomination for the singer who has sold out London's Wembley…
12 Mar 2021
With a Black Lives Matter protest song and one of the year's hottest hits, Beyonce will strive Sunday to end her streak of snubs at the Grammys, as the music world attempts to turn the page on a devastating 2020. The normally glitzy gala will be toned down, like all major awards show, to a…
10 Jun 2020
The Recording Academy, the body responsible for the Grammy Awards on Wednesday announced a number of changes to its category names, including changing "urban contemporary" to "progressive R&B." The  Academy's move comes amid growing criticism in the music industry over the term "urban" that has long generalized genres including hip-hop and R&B but which many…
26 Jan 2020
Former American First Lady Michelle Obama has won a Grammy award in the Spoken Word Album category. Obama won the award for the audio version of her memoir Becoming. The book has now sold more than 10 million copies worldwide. The hardcover edition of the book sold more copies than any other book published in the…
8 Dec 2018
Following in the footsteps of his elder brother Femi, who has in the past received multiple Grammy nominations, Afrobeat artiste Seun Kuti has received Grammy nomination in the World Music category for his album, Black Times.
6 Mar 2018
The body that administers the Grammy Awards on Tuesday named a leader of the Time's Up anti-harassment movement to lead a task force on better including women. The Recording Academy named Tina Tchen, a chief of staff to former first lady Michelle Obama, to head the effort after controversy over women's low representation at the…
29 Jan 2018
The Grammys didn't hold back from more light-hearted political commentary. Noting President Donald Trump's reported disdain for reading -- and the Grammy award for spoken word -- host James Corden introduced a video of famous names reciting from "Fire and Fury: Inside The Trump White House," the sensational account of the tycoon-turned-president's first year in…
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