66th Grammy Nomination: Davido, Afrobeats Star, Over The Moon

<h4>66th Grammy Nomination<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that Nigerian Afrobeats star&comma; David Adeleke&comma; aka Davido&comma; is over the moon as he finally becomes a Grammy nominee&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This followed the release of nominations for the 66th Grammy Awards on Friday in which the names of Nigerian music stars shone brightly in various categories&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Grammy-award winner&comma; Burna Boy&comma; bagged four nominations&comma; while Davido clinched three nominations&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Davido’s emergence marked his first Grammy nomination&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Asake&comma; Olamide&comma; and Ayra Starr also made their Grammy nomination debut with one nomination each&comma; according to the list published on the Grammy Awards website&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Asake and Olamide’s &OpenCurlyQuote;Amapiano’&comma; Burna Boy’s &OpenCurlyQuote;City Boys’&comma; Ayra Starr’s &OpenCurlyQuote;Rush’&comma; Davido and Musa Keys’ &OpenCurlyQuote;Unavailable’&comma; and Tyla’s &OpenCurlyQuote;Water’ were the nominees in a newly created category&comma; Best African Music Performance&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Burna Boy’s other nominations include&semi; &OpenCurlyQuote;Sitting On Top of the World’ featuring 21 Savage for Best Melodic Rap&comma; &OpenCurlyQuote;I Told Them’ for Best Global Music Album&comma; and &OpenCurlyQuote;Alone’ for Best Global Music Performance&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Davido’s fourth studio album&comma; &OpenCurlyQuote;Timeless’ was nominated in the Best Global Music Album category while &OpenCurlyQuote;Unavailable’ and &OpenCurlyQuote;Feel’ were nominated in the Best African Music Performance and Best Global Music Performance categories&comma; respectively&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;versenews&period;ng&sol;">Celebrating his achievement&comma; the elated singer wrote via his X handle&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;3 nominations at the Grammys&excl; Delay is not denial&excl;”<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Davido will contest with his compatriot&comma; Burna Boy and Arooj Aftab&comma; Silvana Estrada&comma; Béla Fleck&comma; Falu and Gaurav Shah for the Best Global Music Performance gong&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He would also lock horns with Burna Boy&comma; Susana Baca&comma; Shakti&comma; and Bokante in the Best Global Music Album category&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the Best African Music Performance category&comma; he will face off with familiar names – Asake&comma; Ayra Starr&comma; Burna Boy and South Africa’s Tyla&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;