For the third time, but he's yet to win one. Well, he doesn't care about being nominated. Yes! He revealed this last year. His first Grammy nomination was in 2003, for the critically-acclaimed album, Fight to Win. Femi kuti's Day By Day received a nomination for Best Contemporary World Music Album in 2010. And now he has received his third nomination

BEST WORLD MUSIC ALBUM
-AfroCubism, AfroCubism
-Africa For Africa, Femi Kuti
-Songs From a Zulu Farm, Ladysmith & -Black Mambazo
-Tassili, Tinariwen


Well, femi has vowed not to attend the Grammys again after losing out the first time he was nominated. Femi disclosed then that he regret attending the prestigious event.

"When I arrived at the red carpet, nobody came for me, my record company didn't come, I felt stupid and so I knew I could not win. I sacked my manager, a French man, and they sacked me too. The journed back home was very long. I felt sad. Since then I vowed never to attend the Grammy Awards again.
My father never went for any awards, and where they presented him an
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For the third time, but he's yet to win one. Well, he doesn't care about being nominated. Yes! He revealed this last year.  His first Grammy nomination was in 2003, for the critically-acclaimed album, Fight to Win. Femi kuti's Day By Day received a nomination for Best Contemporary World Music Album in 2010. And now he has received his third nomination

BEST WORLD MUSIC ALBUM
-AfroCubism, AfroCubism
-Africa For Africa, Femi Kuti
-Songs From a Zulu Farm, Ladysmith & -Black Mambazo
-Tassili, Tinariwen


Well, femi has vowed not to attend the Grammys again after losing out the first time he was nominated. Femi disclosed then that he regret attending the prestigious event.

"When I arrived at the red carpet, nobody came for me, my record company didn't come, I felt silly and so I knew I could not win. I sacked my manager, a French man, and they sacked me too. The journed back home was very long. I felt sad. Since then I vowed never to attend the Grammy Awards again.
My father never went for any awards, and where they presented him an
Read full story
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I understand where he is coming from, with that experience who could blame him for not wanting to go back to the Grammys. To be real the Grammy's really doesn't care for African musicians, or non-westernized musicians, it sad but obvious. I feel there needs to be a time that Africans create a Music awards for themselves like they did with the AMAA.