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Punch Newspapers Sections Michael Aromolaran Michael Aromolaran Nigeria’s first Grammy call-up was in 1984 when King Sunny Ade’s “Syncro System” was nominated for the “Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording”. Sadly, it failed to claim the prize, as the King of Jùjú music lost to Clifton Chenier & His Red Hot Louisiana Band. Thirty-seven years later and no homegrown Nigerian musician had managed the feat. But on March 15, 2021, all that would change when Burna Boy won his first Grammy award in the Best Global Music Album category. This was Burna Boy’s return to the Grammy’s, having been nominated the previous year on the back of his “African Giant” album, but lost out to Beninese-American songstress, Angélique Kidjo. ....
What is ‘The Trifecta’? Also known as ‘The Perfect Three,’ it is three consecutive top quality, universally acclaimed and commercially successful albums by an artist. For certain artists, hits will add to their notoriety, but hits are not exactly a criterion to judge ‘The Trifecta.’ Most successful Nigerian artists like 2Baba, Shina Peters, Majek Fashek, Naeto C and almost everybody else did two groundbreaking albums back-to-back. Also sadly, the great Oliver De Coq doesn’t qualify for this list because two of his trifecta dropped in the 70’s and one in the 80’s. It’s also hard to follow his 80’s discography due to conflicting release dates. ....
At the turn of the last decade, Nigerian music on the last leg of real-life music consumption. The internet slowly started to take over, Twitter garnered more followers and the life of millennials and later, Gen Z slowly started to be dictated by virtual reality. The definition of beauty was replaced by Instagram Face, music found more aggregated conversations, stan culture became more toxic and ‘Afrobeats to the world’ gathered pace. More importantly, the importance of media as a ground for documenting Nigerian pop culture took on another dimension. In 2010, Nigeria Hip-Hop witnessed a golden era and a change of guard which brought in the frontrunners for the last decade. 2011 was their first year to put down markers and they did that. Nonetheless, some of the old guard refused to simply lie down. The niche artists also laid down the gauntlet. ....