Seun Kuti celebrates 40 & 32 years on stage with adorable family photos
Happy birthday, Seun Kuti!!! The musician posed for new photos (captured by Kelechi Amadi) with his wife Yeide and daughter to celebrate his 40th birthday and 32 years on stage. The singer described his new age as “baby forty,” and his “goal is to become an African elder, i.e., one that has aged with grace and dignity that the young ones can emulate.”
Wizkid, Tems, Burna Boy, Ckay & Fireboy DML Nominated for iHeartRadio Music Awards
Nigerian musicians, Wizkid, Burna Boy, Tems, Ckay, and Fireboy DML have all been nominated in the Afrobeats Artist Of The Year category at the 11th edition of the iHeartRadio Music Awards 2023. Afrobeats has been on a steady climb to more and more global acclaim with songs topping international music charts. So the nomination of these Nigerian superstars comes as no surprise. In the lineup of nominees announced by iHeart Media and Fox Entertainment for the 2023 iHeartRadio Music awards, Tems received nominations in four other categories; Best R&B artist, R&B song of the year, Hip-Hop song of the year, and Best Collaboration. Rema was also nominated for Best Music Video (A Socially Voted Category) for the visuals of his remix of “Calm Down” with Selena Gomez. The 2023 iHeartRadio Music Awards will be broadcast live from Dolby Theater in Los Angeles on Monday, March 27, on FOX. See the full nomination list below: Song of the Year: “About Damn Time” – Lizzo “Anti-Hero” – Taylor Swift “As It Was” – Harry Styles “Big Energy” – Latto “Enemy (from the series Arcane League of Legends)” – Imagine Dragons “First Class” – Jack Harlow “Ghost”- Justin Bieber “Heat Waves” – Glass Animals “INDUSTRY BABY” – Lil Nas X & Jack Harlow “Woman” – Doja Cat Artist of the Year: Beyoncé Doja Cat Drake Dua Lipa Harry Styles Jack Harlow Justin Bieber Lizzo Taylor Swift The Weeknd Best Duo/Group of the Year: AJR Black Eyed Peas BLACKPINK Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak, Silk Sonic Glass Animals Imagine Dragons Måneskin OneRepublic Parmalee Red Hot Chili Peppers Best Collaboration: “Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home)” – Elle King & Miranda Lambert “Cold Heart” – Elton John & Dua Lipa “half of my hometown” – Kelsea Ballerini ft. Kenny Chesney “I Like You (A Happier Song)” – Post Malone ft. Doja Cat “INDUSTRY BABY” – Lil Nas X & Jack Harlow “One Right Now” – Post Malone & The Weeknd “Sweetest Pie” – Megan Thee Stallion & Dua Lipa “Unholy” – Sam Smith & Kim Petras “WAIT FOR U” – Future ft. Drake & Tems “You Right” – Doja Cat ft. The Weeknd Best New Pop Artist: Dove Cameron GAYLE Jax Nicky Youre Steve Lacy Country Song of the Year: “Buy Dirt” – Jordan Davis ft. Luke Bryan “half of my hometown” – Kelsea Ballerini ft. Kenny Chesney “She Had Me At Heads Carolina” – Cole Swindell “The Kind of Love We Make” – Luke Combs “Wasted On You” – Morgan Wallen Country Artist of the Year: Carrie Underwood Jason Aldean Kane Brown Luke Combs Morgan Wallen Best New Country Artist: Bailey Zimmerman Cody Johnson Elle King Elvie Shane Priscilla Block Afrobeats Artist of the Year: Burna Boy CKay Fireboy DML Tems Wizkid Hip-Hop Song of the Year: “F.N.F. (Let’s Go)”- Hitkidd & GloRilla “First Class” – Jack Harlow “Girls Want Girls” – Drake ft. Lil Baby “Super Gremlin”- Kodak Black “WAIT FOR U” – Future ft. Drake & Tems Hip-Hop Artist of the Year: Drake Future Kodak Black Lil Baby Moneybagg Yo Best New Hip-Hop Artist: B-Lovee GloRilla Latto Nardo Wick SleazyWorld Go R&B Song of the Year: “BREAK MY SOUL” – Beyoncé “Free Mind” – Tems “Hrs And Hrs” – Muni Long “I Hate U”- SZA “Smokin Out The Window” – Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak, Silk Sonic R&B Artist of the Year: Blxst Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak, Silk Sonic Muni Long SZA Yung Bleu Best New R&B Artist: Blxst Brent Faiyaz Muni Long Steve Lacy Tems Alternative Song of the Year: “Black Summer”- Red Hot Chili Peppers “EDGING”- Blink-182 “Enemy (from the series Arcane League of Legends)”- Imagine Dragons “Heat Waves”- Glass Animals “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)”- Kate Bush Alternative Artist of the Year: Imagine Dragons Måneskin Red Hot Chili Peppers twenty one pilots Weezer Best New Artist (Alternative & Rock): Beach Weather BoyWithUke Giovannie and the Hired Guns Turnstile Wet Leg Rock Song of the Year: “Black Summer”- Red Hot Chili Peppers “Patient Number 9”- Ozzy Osbourne ft. Jeff Beck “Planet Zero”- Shinedown “So Called Life”- Three Days Grace “Taking Me Back”- Jack White Rock Artist of the Year: Ghost Papa Roach Red Hot Chili Peppers Shinedown Three Days Grace Dance Song of the Year: “Cold Heart”- Elton John & Dua Lipa “Escape”- KX5, Kaskade, Deadmau5 ft. Hayla “Heaven Takes You Home”- Swedish House Mafia & Connie Constance “Hot In It”- Tiësto & Charli XCX “I’m Good (Blue)”- David Guetta & Bebe Rexha Dance Artist of the Year: Anabel Englund Joel Corry SOFI TUKKER Swedish House Mafia Tiësto Latin Pop/Reggaeton Song Of The Year: “El Incomprendido” – Farruko/ Víctor Cárdenas/ DJ Adoni “MAMIII”- Becky G & Karol G “Me Porto Bonito”- Bad Bunny ft. Chencho Corleone “Moscow Mule” – Bad Bunny “PROVENZA”- Karol G Latin Pop/Reggaeton Artist of the Year: Bad Bunny Daddy Yankee Farruko Karol G Rauw Alejandro Regional Mexican Song of the Year: “Cada Quien”- Grupo Firme ft. Maluma “Cómo Te Olvido” – La Arrolladora Banda El Limón de René Camacho “Si Te Pudiera Mentir”- Calibre 50 “Ya Solo Eres Mi Ex” – La Adictiva “Ya Supérame”- Grupo Firme Regional Mexican Artist of the Year: Calibre 50 Christian Nodal El Fantasma Grupo Firme La Adictiva Best New Latin Artist: Blessd Kali Uchis Quevedo Ryan Castro Venesti Best Lyrics: (Socially Voted Category) “About Damn Time” – Lizzo “abcdefu” – GAYLE “Anti-Hero” – Taylor Swift “Buy Dirt”- Jordan Davis ft. Luke Bryan “Glimpse Of Us”- Joji “Lift Me Up”- Rihanna “N95” – Kendrick Lamar “pushin P” – Gunna ft. Future, Young Thug “Super Freaky Girl” – Nicki Minaj “Wasted On You” – Morgan Wallen “We Don’t Talk About Bruno”- Lin-Manuel Miranda performed by the Cast of Encanto Best Music Video: (Socially Voted Category) “Anti-Hero”- Taylor Swift “As It Was” – Harry Styles “Calm Down”- Rema & Selena Gomez “Don’t Be Shy”- Tiësto & Karol G “DON’T YOU WORRY”- Black Eyed Peas, Shakira, David Guetta “Envovler” – Anitta “Left and Right”- Charlie Puth ft. Jung Kook of BTS “Pink Venom”- BLACKPINK “Tití Me Preguntó” – Bad Bunny “Yet To Come” – BTS Best Fan Army:
Burna Boy, Uncle Waffles, and Tobe Nwigwe to Perform at This Year’s Coachella
Grammy award winner, Burna Boy is billed to perform with other international musical acts at the 2023 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. According to the announcement made by the festival on their Instagram page, Burna Boy will be joined by international acts like Gorillaz, Chemical Brothers, Pusha T, Kali Uchis, Chris Lake, Uncle Waffles, Tobe Nwigwe, and a host of other international superstars in the star studded line up. The festival is set to run from April 14-16 & April 21-23, 2023 and Burna Boy will be performing on April 14 and 21. Bad Bunny, Frank Ocean and Blackpink are the megastars headlining this year’s event. See the line up below:
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Shines in Dior’s Lady 95.22 Handbag Campaign
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie starred in Dior’s latest handbag campaign, tagged “Lady 95.22” by creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri. The Nigerian writer is featured in the first chapter of the campaign alongside other outstanding women from the realms of fashion, film, literature, sports, music, and art, including Beatrice Borromeo and Anya Taylor-Joy, in a series of black-and-white portraits. According to the French luxury fashion house, “this new bag offers a totally contemporary reinvention of the iconic lines of the Lady Dior, with its Macro and Maxicannage motifs, soft curves and signature charms. Its unique name references the years of its predecessor’s and its own creation.” Wearing the “We Should All Be Feminists” T-shirts, paired with a black suit and a matching Lady 95.22, she says, “I feel happiest when I am surrounded by the people I love—by my family, by my friends. I think I just light up.” She adds, “I think femininity and feminism have often been seen as mutually exclusive. And so, I think for a long time, people felt that being a feminist meant somehow to reject everything to do with feminity. Right so, you have to in some ways, kind of appropriate a man to be a feminist, and I don’t think so at all. I think that femininity and feminism actually do complement each other. Women should be allowed to have a broad range of what they can be, who they can be, of how they can present themselves. And so I think femininity is one of those options and I love femininity.” Talking about the bag, she continues: There’s something almost timeless about the bag. I think it would be interesting to juxtapose that with a less timeless outfit – a lot of colour, a lot clashing, a lot of maximalism and then the bag. Its beauty is not rooted in any particular period. Timelessness means that it cuts across cultures. It doesn’t matter where one is looking at a beautiful timeless thing, one finds it. One of the motos I like to live by is, never admire quietly. If I admire something about somebody, I think it’s important to tell them. We humans are so fragile and it’s important to give people their flowers while they’re here. So never admire quietly. See the campaign video below.
AMAA founder and Philanthropist , Peace Anyiam-Osigwe is late
One of the pillars of the entertainment industry in Nigeria and the Founder of the prestigious AMAA Awards, Peace Anyiam-Osigwe is dead. She reportedly gave up the ghost at St. Nicolas Hospital, Lagos after being in a coma since Saturday. As at Saturday, she was reported to be in coma at Saint Nicholas. But now her family has confirmed her transition. May the memory of her life be a blessing. Rest in peace, dear Peace, he writes on a Nollywood platform.