Burna Boy’s ‘Twice As Tall’ nominated for 2021 Grammys

Twice As Tall‘, a 2020 album by Damini Ogulu, a Nigerian Afrofusuion singer better known as Burna Boy, has been nominated for the ‘Best Global Music Album’ category of the 2021 Grammys.

The nominees were announced on Tuesday during an hour-long live stream featuring Harvey Mason Jr., the chairman and interim president/CEO of the Recording Academy, a learned academy of music professionals.

‘Twice As Tall’ will be competing against Antibalas’s ‘FU Chronicles’, Bebel Gilberto’s ‘Agora’, and Anoushka Shankar’s ‘Love Letters’ in the category.

For this year’s edition, Burna Boy, who was nominated in the ‘Best World Music Album’ category for his ‘African Giant’ album, lost to Angelique Kidjo, a Beninese singer-songwriter.