Popular music executive, Obi Asika has come out to speak up on the challenges Burna Boy faced on his road to stardom. He recently had his say while speaking on the Afropolitan Podcast, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, it got so tough that Burna Boy even struggled to get a slot to perform for free, and the gatekeepers were willing to do everything to frustrate the singer because he was not from Lagos State like their favorites.
Obi added that it was so sad to see influential figures in the industry consistently block every path Burna tried to take to make it big as a musician in Nigeria, but no one can stand in the way of Odogwu henceforth.
His words, “This same Burna Boy that’s a million dollars plus today, they be blocking him…He’s from Port Harcourt, he’s not from Lagos, so they be blocking him,
The same Burna Boy has bypassed everybody and exploded and now he can’t be blocked anymore.”
Burna Boy added, “This is not even half of the story. They did everything they possibly could to break me, they are even still trying their best lol but all they did was create this unquenchable FIRE that will continue to burn them for eternity.”
WOW.
Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu MFR (born 2 July 1991), known professionally as Burna Boy, is a Nigerian singer, songwriter and record producer. He rose to stardom in 2012 after releasing “Like to Party”, the lead single from his debut studio album L.I.F.E (2013). In 2017, Burna Boy signed with Bad Habit/Atlantic Records in the United States and Warner Music Group internationally. His third studio album Outside (2018) marked his major-label debut.
In 2019, he won Best International Act at the 2019 BET Awards, and was announced as Apple Music Up Next artist that year. His fourth studio album, titled African Giant, was released in July 2019. It won Album of the Year at the 2019 All Africa Music Awards and was nominated for Best World Music Album at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards.
He was awarded African Artist of the Year at the 2020 Ghana Music Awards. Burna Boy released his fifth studio album, Twice as Tall, in August 2020. It won Best World Music Album at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards. He won Best International Act at the 2021 BET Awards.
Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu was born on 2 July 1991, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. His mother Bose Ogulu worked as a language translator and his father, Samuel, managed a welding company. His maternal grandfather Benson Idonije once managed Fela Kuti.
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