Who should be counted as Africans?

The Grammy Award has a dedicated space for African music, but only a year after the introduction of the category, the controversy has already been proven.

Africa’s best music performance debuted when TYLA in South Africa won the blend of her hit songwater, Amapiano in South Africa and Afro Pop.

It was a welcome throughout the industry, especially by African artists.

However, this year’s award -nominated, especially by including Chris Brown, R & B Star in the United States, raised his eyebrows.

He was 35 -year -old, nominated for his chart top single sensation. This incorporates the elements of Afrobeat and includes the guest vocals of Nigerian artist Davido and Lojay.

However, the participation of American artists in the African music category has caused several discussions.

Should artists other than Africa be considered in categories to introduce Africa’s talent?

“Music is about comprehensive. We don’t want to enclose people from the genre in a fence,” said Grammy’s CEO Harvey Mason Jr. to the BBC.

“If you start deciding whether or not to make a specific type of music, you will lose the essence of creativity.”

The Grammy Awards explain that such mutual fertilization is expected.

“We’ve seen it in Latin before, we’ve seen it in K-POP, and now we are starting to see it with AFrobeats and Amapiano.” Say.

“We want to praise all the music from where it came from and who made it (regardless of). If it is wonderful, we want to celebrate it.”

Another competition of this year is the control of Afrobeat, which has roots in Nigeria and Ghana.

The Grammy Award feels that it focuses too much to eliminate other African music genres, despite seeking comprehensiveity.

Ayomide Tayo, a Nigerian music journalist, says that Afrobeats is dominating this year’s award.

“I don’t think Afrobeat is good,” he told the BBC.

“Afrobeats has been exposed for over 30 years. We have pushed wonderful music, superstars, and events that attract the world,” explains Lagos.

Nigerians living abroad have played an important role in spreading Afrobeat.

“One of the important factors that Afrobeat exploded in Europe and the United States in Europe and the United States,” says Tayo.

Other Africa -based music business experts are looking at the bright future of other African music genres, but this year may be limited.

For example, Amapiano is a genre that exceeded 1.4 billion streams in the music app Spotify in 2023.

Raphaelvenza, head of the Johannesburg -based record label VTH season, says that Africa’s best performance is against Piganol.

“I think (musician) is doing a very good job from Amapiano’s house. I think I’ll see Amapino artists being nominated in this category next year,” he told BBC. Masu.

Africa’s best music performance categories have been introduced as a way to praise the increase in Africa’s influence on global music.

When TYLA won, she broke the heavyweightweightweightweight of Nigeria, such as Davido and Burna Boy, and established an international stage.

Since then, 22 -year -olds have been found in New York’s Metgala, proving that the effects of the Grammy Awards are genuine, and have been introduced in top fashion magazines.

However, this year’s candidates have almost completely shifted to Nigerian artists. Jemi Alade, Berna Boy, Thames, Asake & with Kid’s joint nominated, and David and Rosay, which appeared in Chris Brown’s hits.

“He has been investing in Afrobeat and African music for a long time to make Chris Brown fair.”

“There is a joke in Nigeria that Chris Brown is a Nigerian, because he always pops up to our songs and music videos.”

Last month, he also held two large -scale selling concerts at Johannesburg’s 90,000 -seater stadium. People traveling from the whole South Africa said that there were people to see his performance.

African musicians have won the Grammy Award long before the best African Music Performance Awards.

MARIAM MAKEBA in South Africa first won the collaboration with Harry Belafonte, called Belafonte/Makeba in 1966.

African artists have become more features since 1992, with the introduction of the best world music albums.

Its categories have experienced a variety of outfits for many years, including traditional and modern world music awards, and are now known as the best global music album.

The award winners include AngéliqueDIDJO, YouSSOU N’Dour, Ali Farkatouré, and Ladysmith Black Mambazo.

But African musicians, for example, are often broken from their categories. For example, South Africa black coffee won the best dance/electronic album in 2022.

Hope is that more categories from Africa will be provided in the next few years to compete with Afrobeat control.

This covers the popularity of Africa’s growing growing popularity, reflecting a huge number of music styles produced in Africa.