Nigerian musician, Burna Boy won the World Music Album at this year’s Grammy Awards with his TWICE AS TALL album. The album which was released late last year had several songwriters and vocalists including some notable Ghanaians.
The album has three Ghanaians – Jonathan Awortwe Mensah, Michael Ebenezer Kwadjo Omari Owuo Jr. who is known as Stormzy in the showbiz world and popular Ghanaian author and poet, Ama Ata Aidoo.
On the part of Ama Ata Aidoo, she was featured on Burna Boy’s ‘MONSTERS YOU MADE’ as an additional vocalist.
The track is a politically charged Reggae-Fusion track that explores the historical injustices on an oppressed race that’s convinced enough should be enough, addressing African and African-American experiences with prejudice, touching on subjects like slavery and miseducation. The song is full of pain, anger and plenty of defiances, featuring vocals from Chris Martin with a spoken outro from the Ghanaian author and poet.
Jonathan Awortwe Mensah was one of the songwriters. He is one of the talented diaspora-based Ghanaians who are making a name for themselves in the world of music. He is an Afrobeats and Pop Music star with quite a number of notable songs to his name. Some of his songs are ‘Come and Dance’, ‘Pull Over’, ‘Do As I Say’, and ‘Mamacita’.
Born Michael Ebenezer Kwadjo Omari Owuo Jr., Stormzy is a UK-based talented rapper who is widely known in most parts of the world.
He was one of the songwriters for the REAL LIFE track on the album. The song was produced Telz and Mario Winans. He gained attention on the UK underground music scene through his Wicked Skengman series of freestyles over classic grime beats.
Source: ghgossip.com
