₦airaland Forum

KingLennon:
C brother .

Hi KingLennon

When you say anything about achievements of nigerians, you could guess which tribe it is coming from. i am not tribalistic o.

lordkush:
oga they 're not Nigerians abeg

They are all Nigerians by birth and Heritage

funmijoyb:
Drake ft Wizkid one dance won Grammy award.

Nope. Wasn't even nominated

McBeee:
� For your mind? One Dance koo, Two Choreography ni

lol,comedians full dis forum wella

traihit:
Does it have any lyric like "this is no ordinary love, no ordinary love...". If it is, then you have the title.

Exactly!
Thanks!

ericmor:
I knew u were going to talk about this people even before opening the topic. They are Nigerians but not recognized as Nigerians when they won the award.
We still need our niger artist to grab one of that n I would have love sunny ade to win it then but I know our Yoruba that live n rep niger people will grab it someday. If only wizzy can work harder on is song lyrics like he did on oju elegba, then he has a chance of grabbing one someday

Sikiri Adepoju was recognized as a Nigerian when he won the award

Yoruba with Nobel Laurette and Grammys

yemmight:
Let them continue to call us Afonja as long as we represent Nigeria positively. I am a proud Afonja.

Afonja is the name of one of the Are Ona Kakanfo(Military general) in the Yoruba land as such he can not be the progenitor of the Yoruba tribe, so you are either proudly Yoruba or proudly Oodua and that's if you are Yoruba. Be enlightened.

LazyGold:
The Recording Academy Grammy Awards is the most respected award every musician aspires to earn as testament to the impact of their career.

Well, we have some Nigerian Grammy award winners but you probably haven’t heard of them because it takes a rigorous research to find out some of this artists, as some are foriegn based with just blood ties to the country while others are old and probably no longer in the entertainment industry.

Some might have the illusion that its due to there racial differences as to why Nigerians or Africans are not really nominated or awarded the Grammy award. But as it says, its just an illusion because the Grammys had the African culture at heart when the started the ‘World music’ category in 1991 with Africans holding a significant number in this category over the years. There by striking off any illusion of racism and gives a clear picture for Africans who decides to pitch into the recording academy to include a proper category typifying new-fashioned African sounds.

So with thorough search and research we bring to you, the 5 Nigerians who have won this prestigious awards;

Sikiru Adepoju | 1991 (Planet Drum) | 2009 (Global Drum Project)

Sikiru Adepoju (pronounced Seek-ee-roo Ah-deh-po-joo) is a master of the talking drum and many other Yoruba percussion instruments. Born in Eruwa, Nigeria, Sikiru hails from the traditional lineage of Yoruba talking drummers culturally referred to as Ayan which means “one who has descended from drummers lineage,” and began playing under the tutelage of his father Chief Ayanleke Adepoju at the age of six. Along with his brothers Saminu and Lasisi, Sikiru accompanied the family’s talking drum ensemble for several years.

After moving to the San Fransico Bay Area in 1985, Sikiru joined the influential and pioneering Nigerian percussionist Babatunde Olantunji and his Drums of Passion. This marked a lengthy period of high productivity from Sikiru which saw him recording and performing throughout the world until a year before Olantunji’s death in 2003. During this period he was introduced to Grateful Dead drummer, Mickey Hart, who has called Sikiru “The Mozart of the talking drum,” and employed him on many of his personal projects including the Grammy award winning albumsPlanet Drum (1991) and Global Drum Project (2009).


Sade Adu
This is the queen of the list. She has 4 Grammys in her inspirational career and they were won in 1986, 1994, 2002 and 2011.

Musician, singer. Born Helen Folasade Adu on January 16, 1959 in Ibadan, Nigeria. Raised in London by her English mother, Sade developed several interests as a teen, including singing, fashion design and modeling. She sang with a few local bands before signing with Epic Records and recording her first album, Diamond Life, in 1984. A huge hit in her native England, the album also had mass appeal across the pond thanks to such singles as “Smooth Operator.” In 1986, she won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist.

Sade’s subsequent multi-platinum albums, Promise, Stronger Than Pride andLove Deluxe, established her as a top-selling soul and pop artist. She took a new route with her 2000 album, Lovers Rock, which was released eight years after Love Deluxe and incorporated a more mainstream sound. The record, and particularly the chart-topping single, “By Your Side,” helped her win over new audiences. Two years later, the album and ensuing tour inspired her first live recording, Lovers Live. Sade returned to the studio and released her sixth album In February 2010, Soldier of Love.

Sealhenry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel

Seal is very Nigerian and even visited the country recently. He has 4 Grammy awards, winning 3 in 1996 and 1 in 2011.

Sealhenry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel was born in London, England, on February 19, 1963, of Nigerian heritage.

Seal went on to score a major U.K. hit, “Killer,” before releasing his 1991 debut album. He’s become an internationally renowned singer/songwriter with albums like Human Beingand hits like “Crazy,” “Prayer for the Dying” and “Kiss From a Rose,” which won multiple Grammy Awards. He was married to supermodel and TV host Heidi Klum for several years.

Kelvin Olusola
Kevin is a beatboxer in the renowned acapella group Pentatonix and has won 3 Grammy awards in 2015, 2016 and 2017.

Kelvin picked up an award alongside his acapella band, Pentatonix, taking home the award in the ‘Arrangement, Instrumental or acappella’ category for their medley ‘Daft Punk’, a remake of Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky.

Lekan Babalola
Lekan is a Conga player with 2 Grammy awards to his name. He won the awards in 2006 and 2009. Born in Lagos State, Nigeria where he began playing the conga at a young age, he has released seven albums and jointly won two Grammy Awards.

Twice Grammy award winning Nigerian percussionist, Lekan Babalola, is well known for his innovative musical style, using his native Yoruba tongue infused with traditional music, Afrobeat and funky dance overtones.

However, some Nigerian icons have also been nominated for this award, the likes of; Sunny Ade, Wizkid, Timaya, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Femi Kuti, Seun Kuti is the latest Nigerian to make the coveted compilation to an extent of even landing a Grammy night performance.

https://lists.ng/5-nigerian-grammy-award-winners-you-probably-havent-heard-of/

How about Grammy Award for drug carriers!! Which tribe do you think will win. Guess we all know the answer

Ekakamba:
Probably Cameroonians and Sundanese .

Chai you no go wound person

Elemosho478:
Sikiri Adepoju was recognized as a Nigerian when he won the award

Yes he was but not as an artist but as a minor contributor to a foreign work.
No Nigerian artist has ever won it

MNDY:
Sade's voice mesmerizes me walai. From Sweetest Taboo to Smooth Operator. I really want to get her album.
But one particular song of hers I love but don't remember its title contains the following lyrics: "I keep on falling and loving you" etc. She was singing about a guy she is tripping for but who is paying her no attention.

"by your side" from the album lovers rock.
Such a beautiful song

ericmor:
Yes he was but not as an artist but as a minor contributor to a foreign work.
No Nigerian artist has ever won it

You are just a sadist and hater

Who is an Artiste? Define an Artiste?

You can take your frustration and jealousy else where

You think only celebrity Artistes are the only one that qualify as Artistes? You must have been an illiterate

TenPassfour:
Thanks for sharing

I am challenging you to combat oh I am challenging you to combat!

McBeee:
� For your mind?
One Dance koo, Two Choreography ni

Savage

whytediamond:
Hi KingLennon

Wadup bro

LazyGold:
The Recording Academy Grammy Awards is the most respected award every musician aspires to earn as testament to the impact of their career.

Well, we have some Nigerian Grammy award winners but you probably haven’t heard of them because it takes a rigorous research to find out some of this artists, as some are foriegn based with just blood ties to the country while others are old and probably no longer in the entertainment industry.

Some might have the illusion that its due to there racial differences as to why Nigerians or Africans are not really nominated or awarded the Grammy award. But as it says, its just an illusion because the Grammys had the African culture at heart when the started the ‘World music’ category in 1991 with Africans holding a significant number in this category over the years. There by striking off any illusion of racism and gives a clear picture for Africans who decides to pitch into the recording academy to include a proper category typifying new-fashioned African sounds.

So with thorough search and research we bring to you, the 5 Nigerians who have won this prestigious awards;

Sikiru Adepoju | 1991 (Planet Drum) | 2009 (Global Drum Project)

Sikiru Adepoju (pronounced Seek-ee-roo Ah-deh-po-joo) is a master of the talking drum and many other Yoruba percussion instruments. Born in Eruwa, Nigeria, Sikiru hails from the traditional lineage of Yoruba talking drummers culturally referred to as Ayan which means “one who has descended from drummers lineage,” and began playing under the tutelage of his father Chief Ayanleke Adepoju at the age of six. Along with his brothers Saminu and Lasisi, Sikiru accompanied the family’s talking drum ensemble for several years.

After moving to the San Fransico Bay Area in 1985, Sikiru joined the influential and pioneering Nigerian percussionist Babatunde Olantunji and his Drums of Passion. This marked a lengthy period of high productivity from Sikiru which saw him recording and performing throughout the world until a year before Olantunji’s death in 2003. During this period he was introduced to Grateful Dead drummer, Mickey Hart, who has called Sikiru “The Mozart of the talking drum,” and employed him on many of his personal projects including the Grammy award winning albumsPlanet Drum (1991) and Global Drum Project (2009).


Sade Adu
This is the queen of the list. She has 4 Grammys in her inspirational career and they were won in 1986, 1994, 2002 and 2011.

Musician, singer. Born Helen Folasade Adu on January 16, 1959 in Ibadan, Nigeria. Raised in London by her English mother, Sade developed several interests as a teen, including singing, fashion design and modeling. She sang with a few local bands before signing with Epic Records and recording her first album, Diamond Life, in 1984. A huge hit in her native England, the album also had mass appeal across the pond thanks to such singles as “Smooth Operator.” In 1986, she won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist.

Sade’s subsequent multi-platinum albums, Promise, Stronger Than Pride andLove Deluxe, established her as a top-selling soul and pop artist. She took a new route with her 2000 album, Lovers Rock, which was released eight years after Love Deluxe and incorporated a more mainstream sound. The record, and particularly the chart-topping single, “By Your Side,” helped her win over new audiences. Two years later, the album and ensuing tour inspired her first live recording, Lovers Live. Sade returned to the studio and released her sixth album In February 2010, Soldier of Love.

Sealhenry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel

Seal is very Nigerian and even visited the country recently. He has 4 Grammy awards, winning 3 in 1996 and 1 in 2011.

Sealhenry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel was born in London, England, on February 19, 1963, of Nigerian heritage.

Seal went on to score a major U.K. hit, “Killer,” before releasing his 1991 debut album. He’s become an internationally renowned singer/songwriter with albums like Human Beingand hits like “Crazy,” “Prayer for the Dying” and “Kiss From a Rose,” which won multiple Grammy Awards. He was married to supermodel and TV host Heidi Klum for several years.

Kelvin Olusola
Kevin is a beatboxer in the renowned acapella group Pentatonix and has won 3 Grammy awards in 2015, 2016 and 2017.

Kelvin picked up an award alongside his acapella band, Pentatonix, taking home the award in the ‘Arrangement, Instrumental or acappella’ category for their medley ‘Daft Punk’, a remake of Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky.

Lekan Babalola
Lekan is a Conga player with 2 Grammy awards to his name. He won the awards in 2006 and 2009. Born in Lagos State, Nigeria where he began playing the conga at a young age, he has released seven albums and jointly won two Grammy Awards.

Twice Grammy award winning Nigerian percussionist, Lekan Babalola, is well known for his innovative musical style, using his native Yoruba tongue infused with traditional music, Afrobeat and funky dance overtones.

However, some Nigerian icons have also been nominated for this award, the likes of; Sunny Ade, Wizkid, Timaya, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Femi Kuti, Seun Kuti is the latest Nigerian to make the coveted compilation to an extent of even landing a Grammy night performance.

https://lists.ng/5-nigerian-grammy-award-winners-you-probably-havent-heard-of/

Laide Agunbiade should be on this list

jrusky:
Woow this is interesting I only knew of Seal and Sade Adu i never knew rhere are other guys of Nigeria background on Grammy status hhhmmmm....proudly Nigerian.

Pls no tribal bigot needed on this particular thread.

Chamillionaire also.

GRAMMY'S NEXT RATED AWARD ----- Oliver de Coque .

Onyemadonald:
Was only nominated for Grammys

It wasnt even nominated, it was the album that was nominated

yemmight:
Let them continue to call us Afonja as long as we represent Nigeria positively. I am a proud Afonja.

Don't you call them OSU too?

Elemosho478:
You are just a sadist and hater

Who is an Artiste? Define an Artiste?

You can take your frustration and jealousy else where

You think only celebrity Artistes are the only one that qualify as Artistes? You must have been an illiterate

You are just a fool. You don’t even know the meaning of sadist self. As any Nigerian artist won the Grammy? No. Simple as abc. I don’t know y people like u are so dumb for accepting the truth. When we talk of of frustration, u are the frustrated one here

ericmor:
You are just a fool. You don’t even know the meaning of sadist self. As any Nigerian artist won the Grammy? No. Simple as abc. I don’t know y people like u are so dumb for accepting the truth. When we talk of of frustration, u are the frustrated one here

Those up there are Nigerians and Artist, so Nigerians have won Grammy, you are the dumb one here

Elemosho478:
Those up there are Nigerians and Artist, so Nigerians have won Grammy, you are the dumb one here

Try and go school small and read to understand. That is how u olodo like u fail in school.
I can see that you are really frustrated, that is y u can’t understand just simple statement