A music enthusiast has given insights into why and how Nigerian-born Grammy Award winner, Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu, MFR popularly called Burna Boy became Afrobeats global sensation NEGROIDHAVEN can report.
Unimke Abana, a Nigerian of Cross River indigenisation but, resident in Lagos has observed that Burna Boy’s international fame soared because he named one of his tracks ‘Ye’ contained in his 2018 album tagged, ‘Outside’.
Burna Boy Interview with Thiery Henry & UCL CBS Crew #UCLfinal #ChampionsLeague #Burnaboy pic.twitter.com/UpeiXrnGqg
— Tofunmi (@tofexz) June 10, 2023
Burna Boy named Ye after Ye, one of the tracks in Kanye West’s 1st June 2018 album.
His words, ‘This is why Burna Boy blew internationally. Americans and Europeans were searching for “Ye”, the album from Kanye West, and some of these searchers stumbled upon Burna Boy’s track “Ye”.
‘The track has some good vibes to it and guess what, they liked it. Americans went to his channels and started listening to his other songs. You can go to his YouTube channel and run some data analysis. Nigeria wasn’t vibing to Burna until he was accepted internationally.’
The adorable moment Burnaboy wore his expensive jewelry on his ‘idol,’ Thierry Henry, at the UEFA CL Final.
— Instablog9ja (@instablog9ja) June 11, 2023
‘Burna was just a regular artiste like Fireboy until “Ye”. That was when he moved from D level artiste to A level artiste.’
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