Being one Africa’s best-selling artists and decorated singers and songwriters who has accomplished so much in the music industry,  it will be a dream come true and historic for your works to be recognized by multiple time Grammy-award-winning and Beninese act Angelique Kidjo – Since getting his monster hit song ‘Ye’ in 2018, Award-winning musician and Nigerian Afrobeats superstar Burna Boy has set unprecedented records and made multiple history.

In 2023, Burna Boy became the first African act to headline a concert at the prestigious and decorated 80K capacity London Stadium. On Saturday 29th June 2024, he again sold out the stadium in another historic and unprecedented feat.

For the above reasons and more, the Beninese singer  has eulogized the ‘Last Last’ hitmaker in an emotional and inspiring statement.

In the statement, Angelique Kidjo described the Nigerian superstar as a history in the making who young Africans look up to.

The Big 7 Records act follows the footsteps of the iconic pioneer of Afrobeats, the late Fela Kuti.

Part of the statement read ” 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—the internationally celebrated Afrobeats artist and activist. Burna Boy’s 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”