Yemi Alade is a Grammy Award winner courtesy of her feature on the song, ‘Dignity’,the lead single on Angelique Kidjo’s ‘Mother Nature’ album which won Best World Music at the just concluded award ceremony.
Though a lot of Nigerians are pained by this development seeing as Kidjo beat Nigeria’s favourite, Wizkid in that category, Yemi is offering reasons why this happened.
The singer who is still reveling in the congratulatory messages trailing her Grammy win retweeted some facts about the Best World Music category at the Grammys and why Kidjo’s album deserved the win over Wizkid’s ‘Essence’.
According to the post Yemi Alade retweeted, Angelique Kidjo dropped an album in which the headline song talked about the disasters of climate change that the west is worried about and how it will impact Africa more but people are wondering why she won a Grammy for that work.
Asking that those doubting that her work didn’t deserve a Grammy should take their time to listen to the albums ‘Africa, One Of A Kind’ and ‘Mother Nature’ and they will realize that she did a great work and it’s also something the west is really interested in hence winning a Grammy for that.
Please take your time to listen to the album. Listen to “Africa, One of a Kind” and “Mother Nature”.
Drop your pangolo expectations before you listen to them so you can enjoy good music.
— Man of Letters. (@Letter_to_Jack) April 3, 2022
Yemi Alade was also featured on that album which means it’s a win for her as well and that means it’s a win for Nigeria too. This year’s Grammy makes Angelique Kidjo a 5x Grammy Award winner and that is a huge one for Africa.
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