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Kel-P and Fela inspired Burna Boy Have Already Recorded 33 New Songs
Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu (born 2 July 1991), known professionally as Burna Boy, is a Nigerian singer and songwriter.He rose to prominence in 2012 after releasing "Like to Party", the lead single from his debut studio album L.I.F.E (2013). In 2017, Burna Boy signed with Bad Habit/Atlantic Records in the United States and Warner Music Group internationally. His third studio album Outside (2018) marked his major-label debut. In 2019, he won Best International Act at the 2019 BET Awards, and was announced as Apple Music's Up Next artist. His fourth studio album African Giant was released in July 2019; it won Album of the Year at the 2019 All Africa Music Awards, and was nominated for Best World Music Album at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards
Burna Boy describes his music as Afro-fusion, a genre that blends Afrobeat, dancehall riddims, reggae, American rap and R&B. August Brown of The Los Angeles Times said Burna Boy's sound is "savvy and modern but undistracted by obvious crossover moves".
Kel-P made it known on the GQ interview made for Burna Boy titled “Global Giant” that While Burna Boy is planning to spend most of the year 2020 on the road for the continuity of his African Giant tour he already prepared for the less time period of curating songs as he already has 33 in the bag.
While on Burna Boy’s GQStyle Magazine Edition, Burna Boy talks about his comparison to the Late Legendary afrobeat singer, Fela Kuti.
After a whole lot of question and answer section between the Interviewer and the African Giant, Burna Boy, the interviewer raised the Fela question.
At first Burna Boy tried to weaver the question, but he started answering by first saying “I don’t think anybody in their right mind would compare me to Fela,”
He said
“Fela is my inspiration and my childhood hero, so if you think comparing me to Fela is honorable, it’s actually not,” he states. “It actually makes me feel weird.
Fela was Fela, and if it wasn’t for Fela, there probably wouldn’t be any me, so I don’t understand the comparison.”
Release Date:
02-Jul-2020
