Nigerian superstar, Wizkid has won the ‘Best Music Video’ for his role on ‘Brown Skin Girl’ at the 63rd Grammy Award.
Wizkid won the award alongside the owner of the song, Beyonce, and featured artists, Blue Ivy and Saint Jhn.
Also, the award will go to the director of the video, Jenn Nkiru.
The song was produced for Beyonce’s album, Lion King: The Gift, which featured other Nigerian artists.
Wizkid won the award in recognition of his role on the song and in the video of the song. The rules stipulate that the artists, producer and video director will get a statuette for this award category.
Another Nigerian musician, Burna Boy won Best Global Music Album. His album, Twice as Tall competed and won the award over records by Bebel Gilberto (Agora), Antibalas (FU Chronicles), Anoushka Shankar (Love Letters), and Tinariwen (Amadjar).
Like Wizkid, the win also marks Burna Boy’s first Grammy Award after he was nominated last year.
In November 2019, the Recording Academy revealed plans to change Best World Music Album’s name to Best Global Music Album, saying it’s a step toward “a more relevant, modern, and inclusive term” and added that “the change symbolizes a departure from the connotations of colonialism, folk, and ‘non-American’ that the former term embodied while adapting to current listening trends and cultural evolution among the diverse communities it may represent.”
