Award winning Nigerian singer, Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun professionally known as Wizkid has won his first-ever Grammy Award for his role on ‘Brown Skin Girl’ off the 2019 album, ‘The Lion King’.
Alongside Beyoncé, Blue Ivy and SAINt JHN, WizKid won “Best Music Video” for “Brown Skin Girl” at the Premiere Ceremony of the 63rd GRAMMY Awards.
Beyoncé’s visual for “Brown Skin Girl” beat videos by Future and Drake (“Life Is Good”), Harry Styles, (“Adore You”), Anderson Paak (“Lockdown”), and Woodkid (“Goliath”) to clinch the coveted award.
The award will go to the video director, Jenn Nkiru, while artists, producers and video director will get a statuette for this category.
Nigerians mostly Wizkid fans, otherwise called Wizkid F.C couldn’t hide their joy as they took to their various social media platforms, especially Twitter, to celebrate the musical sensation.
See some of the tweets below:
Congratulations, WizKid.
Afrobeats to the world. #GRAMMYs
— Adewale Adetona (@iSlimfit) March 14, 2021
https://twitter.com/Kinglamarr___/status/1371190450535731202?s=19
https://twitter.com/Emdee_01/status/1371189731124518914?s=19
.@wizkidayo is the first Afrobeats artist to win a Grammy award. #GRAMMYs
He’s the second Nigerian artist to win overall, the first being Sikiru Adepoju.
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— MLLE – NOV 4 (@WizkidSource) March 14, 2021
Wizkid don win, Track wey dey swallow Album!!!#GRAMMYs
— Victor Babatunde (@vhic_tore) March 14, 2021
“Wizkid Grammy na gumbody.” Follow who know road make you no miswaka☺️ #StarBoy #GRAMMYs 💪🏾 pic.twitter.com/GGMFbKQiyB
— Dr Dípò Awójídé (@OgbeniDipo) March 14, 2021