Burna Boy, a Grammy-winning musician from Nigeria who has performed throughout the world, claims to have started singing when he was just two years old.
He said that he had not yet entered the music industry at the time and had only been singing popular rhymes and choruses.
While a guest on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon in America, Burna Boy announced this.
The "Common2 guy" coroner, who sang the song about heartbreak, also discussed his collaboration with British artist Ed Sheeran.
Sheeran was mentioned by the multiple award-winning Afrobeats singer as one of his favorite people in the entire globe.
He also explained how he came up with the name Burna Boy, claiming that his love of comic book superheroes was the inspiration.
Burna Boy is the stage name of Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu, a Nigerian singer, songwriter, and record producer who was born on July 2, 1991. After releasing "Like to Party," the main song off his debut studio album, L.I.F.E., in 2012, he became famous (2013). 2017 saw Burna Boy sign with Warner Music Group internationally and Bad Habit/Atlantic Records in the US. Outside, his third studio album, was his first major-label release. He was named an Apple Music Up Next artist in 2019 and won Best International Act at the BET Awards that year. African Giant, his fourth studio album, was released in July 2019 and was nominated for a Best World Music Album Grammy Award as well as winning Album of the Year at the 2019 All Africa Music Awards. At the 2020 VGMAs, he received the African Artist of the Year award. Burna Boy became the first Nigerian musician to receive back-to-back Grammy nominations when his fifth studio album, Twice as Tall, was released in August 2020. Twice as Tall was nominated for the same category at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards. Twice as Tall took up the 63rd Annual Grammy Award for Best World Music Album in 2021. Love, Damini, Burna Boy's sixth studio album, was released in July 2022.
Nigeria's Rivers State, Port Harcourt, is the birthplace of Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu. Bose, his mother, was a language translator, and Samuel, his father, had a welding business. Benson Idonije, his maternal grandfather, once worked as Fela Kuti's manager. Later on, his mother Bose Ogulu would work as his manager. Ogulu was raised in southern Nigeria and started using FruityLoops to create his own beats. In order to further his education, he moved to London after attending Corona Secondary School in Agbara, Ogun State. Later, from 2008 to 2009, he studied media technology at the University of Sussex. From 2009 to 2010, he studied media communications and culture at Oxford Brookes University. After that, he went back to Port Harcourt and accepted a one-year internship at Rhythm 93.7 FM. He returned to Lagos and started a singing career.
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