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32-year-old Grammy-award winning Nigerian singer, Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu better known as Burna Boy, has been named as one of the top 100 most influential people of 2024 by Times Magazine.<\/p>\n

In a statement on Wednesday, April 17, Times magazine said: \u201cWe spend months discussing who belongs on the TIME100, the people who we believe most changed the stories that define the past year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Penning a glowing tribute to Burna Boy, multi-Grammy-winning singer Angelique Kidjo said: \u201cTen years ago or so, when young African musicians would come to me for advice, I\u202fwould tell them, \u2018You don\u2019t need to mimic American artists! The world needs the amazing richness and beauty of our traditional African music and our culture. This land is where most of modern music comes from. This source of inspiration is inexhaustible. Its freshness and its elegance will get the world\u2019s attention for sure.\u2019<\/p>\n

Burna Boy has made that vision a global reality. Inspired by the fantastic drums of Nigerian folk music, and studied in the craft of the great African singer-songwriters, he follows in the footsteps of Fela Kuti\u2014the internationally celebrated Afrobeats artist and activist.<\/p>\n

Burna Boy\u2019s deeply original flow and his signature groove have conquered the world with an impressive series of firsts: in 2023, he became the first African artist to sell out a U.S. stadium, and in 2024, he became the first Afrobeats artist to sing at the Grammys.<\/p>\n

He is history in the making. Now a whole generation of young people from the continent is looking up to him.\u201d<\/p>

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