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Grammy-winning Nigerian Singer Damini Ogulu, popularly known as Burna Boy, has hinted the release of a new album.
The “Twice As Tall” crooner disclosed this in a post on his X (formerly Twitter) handle on Monday.
He wrote: “Album dropping 12AM.”
According to the Afrobeat superstar, the new album will be dropping on July 30.
The announcement came after his recent celebration of the fifth anniversary of his Grammy nominated 2019 album “African Giant”,
which he marked with a concert at the kolo Camden, United Kingdom.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the multiple award-winning artiste has continued to make headlines for being at
the forefront of exporting Nigerian music with his award-winning albums and historic sold-out concerts
In 2019, he won the Best International Act at the BET Awards, and was named an Apple Music Up Next artist.
He also released his fourth studio album, African Giant, which went on to win Album of the Year at the All Africa Music Awards.
The album was nominated for Best World Music Album at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards and he clinched the African Artist
of the Year at the 2020 Ghana Music Awards.
Burna Boy released his fifth studio album, ‘Twice as Tall’, in August 2020, which fetched him the Best World Music Album at
the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards.
His sixth studio album Love Damini was released in 2022 and became the highest debut of a Nigerian album on the Billboard
200 chart.
Love Damini also became the highest-charting African album in France, the Netherlands and the UK.
In October of same year, Burna Boy was awarded the Member of the Order of the Federal Republic plaque for his achievements
in music.
In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked him number 197 on its list of the 200 greatest singers of all time and he won his fourth
Best International Act at the BET Awards in 2023, among others.
He made history again when his his 7th album, ‘I Told Them’ released in October 2023, earned him nominations
for the 2024 Grammys, which became his fourth consecutive album to be nominated for the Grammys.(NAN)
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