Does Yemi Alade have a Grammy Award?
The question on a lot of Nigerians’ minds is whether or not Yemi Alade has a Grammy Award. The reason for this is not far-fetched. Nigerians are so keen on who has a Grammy Award in the country or not because apart from their obsessions with Billboard, it is the latest mark for achievement in the music industry.
Does Yemi Alade have a Grammy Award?
By association, yes, she does. But individually, she does not. She was featured on the lead single of Angelique Kidjo’s “Mother Nature” which won the Grammy Award for Best Global Album at the 2022 Grammy Awards.
Technically, this makes her a Grammy Award winner. It’s the same way Wizkid has a Grammy Award because he was featured in Beyoncé’s “Brown Skin Girl” music video.
However, individually, Yemi Alade does not have a Grammy Award to her name. All she has most likely is a Grammy Certificate. But by association Wizkid has a Grammy Award.
Besides, if anyone should lay claims to really having a Grammy Award in Nigeria, it should be Burna Boy. Burna Boy is the first winner of a solo Grammy Award in Nigeria, with his album “Twice as Tall”
Hopefully, both Wizkid and Yemi Alade are again gunning for Grammy Awards again after Wizkid lost both of his Grammy Nominations at the 2022 Grammy Awards.
However, Yemi Alade has actually been nominated for the award-A Latin Grammy Award in 2023, and has been on two projects that have been nominated for Grammy Awards.
It is not surprising that having a Grammy Award in Nigeria now is the yardstick for growth and status in the Nigerian music industry.
Nigerians have attached so much importance to it that any move made by any artist is seen as submitting to Grammy standards.
Also, they have collectively criticized the Grammy Recording Academy for associating African sound to be slavery and “call for peace” alone.
Although these accusations are founded on how White people perceive African music, and the kind of music that Angelique Kidjo has cemented with the Recording Academy music.
Meanwhile, these accusations may not be completely true because Burna Boy’s last album was not short of Burna Boy’s style of music, and yet, it won a Grammy Award.
Angelique Kidjo’s last Grammy award winning album “Mother Nature” was also an album that touched on Love, social change, Humanity and Police Brutality. The album even featured Burna Boy, Yemi Alade and Mr. Eazi.
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