Burna Boy

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist

Burna Boy, real name Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu, is a Nigerian singer, songwriter and producer, born in 1991 in Port Harcourt. His mother worked as a translator and later became his manager, and his maternal grandfather was Fela Kuti's manager. He made his first beats with FL Studio and studied for a few years in England. Back in Port Harcourt he did an internship at a radio station. In 2012 he became known with Like to Party, the first single from his debut album L.I.F.E, which came out in 2013.

Music and breakthrough

In 2017 he signed to Atlantic Records. Outside in 2018 was his first album on a major label. African Giant from 2019 won Album of the Year at the All Africa Music Awards and was nominated for a Grammy, and Twice as Tall from 2020 won a Grammy for best world music album. Love, Damini from 2022, which includes Last Last, became the highest-charting Nigerian album on the American Billboard 200. Last Last won two awards at The Headies in 2023. He also became the first African artist with two albums that each have more than a billion streams on Spotify.

Influence

His music mixes Afrobeats with reggae, hip-hop and R&B. In this way he brought Nigerian pop music to a worldwide audience, and he is one of the faces of modern Afrobeats.

Listening

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  Last Last · Burna Boy, 2022
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Discography

Studio albums

• 2013L.I.F.E: Leaving an Impact for Eternity
• 2015On a Spaceship
• 2016Redemption
• 2018Outside
• 2019African Giant
• 2020Twice as Tall
• 2022Love, Damini
• 2023I Told Them…
• 2025No Sign of Weakness

Mentioned in other articles

• Afrobeats GenreWizkid, Davido and Burna Boy became global stars; Wizkid sang on Drake's One Dance (2016), and Burna Boy won a Grammy in 2021.

See also

• On a Spaceship