Behold, Past Grammy Award Winners Of Nigerian Origin

Before the victory of Burna Boy and Wizkid in the just concluded 2021 edition of the annual Grammy award, other Nigerians have also won the prestigious global awards. They include:
Sade Adu:- The award winning singer cum song writer is the first artiste of Nigerian origin to win the prestigious award. She won her first Grammy in1986. Sade , through the course of her career, has four Grammy awards to her name, she got the last one in 2011.
Sikiru Adepoju:- The percussionist and recording artiste won his first Grammy in 1991 as part of Mickey Hart’s group planet drum. He bagged his second award with the same group in 2009 at the 51st annual Grammy award in Los Angeles.
Seal: Seal is popular for the 1994 song “Kiss From a rose” which earned him three Grammy awards in 1996. In 2011, the British Nigerian singer/songwriter bagged his fourth award.
Babatunde Olatunji:- Babatunde Olatunji was a talented Nigerian drummer, he was part of Mickey Hart’s planet drum project, the album won the Grammy award for Best music in 1991, the first year for which the award was given, he passed away sadly in 2003.
Lekan Babalola Lekan is a Nigerian Jazz percussionist and musician with two Grammy awards in his career. He won his first Grammy in 2006 to become Nigeria’s first Grammy award winner for his work on Ali Farka Toure’s in the Heart of the moon.
His second Grammy came in 2009 for his work on Cassandra Wilson’s 2018 album titled ‘Lovely’.
Chamillionaire: The rapper clinched a Grammy in 2007 for his song Ridding Under Best Rap.
Kelvin Olusola
The talented young man is a musician, beat boxer, cellist, rapper, record producer, singer and songwriter, best known as the beat boxer of vocal band pentatonix, he has three awards to hi name. He won back to back his 2015, 2016 and 2017.
Chimamanda Adichie:- The celebrated author was nominated in 2015 for featuring in Beyonce’s album, which won the album of the year category.
Those who have been nominated include, Sunny Ade, Sean Kuti and Femi Kuti.