Music: "Love, Damani", a very personal new album for Burna Boy

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Nigerian singer Burna Boy has just released his 6th album “Love Damani”, on July 8, 2022. © Spaceship/Bad Habit/Atlantic Records

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In recent years, Burna Boy, this heavyweight music scene from Nigeria, has made a name for itself on the international pop scene.

And it is crowned with a Grammy Awards in the category Best world musical album that the artist returns with a disc mixing the genres and which wants to be very personal according to the artist.

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" This

 ", announces

to introduce this sixth album

.

Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu is her real name.

This title is a way to say that this album is his, only his.

He comes out on his 31st birthday and the artist celebrates himself from the first bars.

Burna Boy is one of the leaders of Afrobeat.

This contemporary West African pop music has grown considerably in popularity in recent years.

What makes the Nigerian singer unique is that he mixes it with other styles such as R'n'B, hip-hop... As in the single

, nearly 30 million views on Youtube.

But among the 19 titles and the many stars present (like the Colombian J Balvin or the Jamaican Popstar), we will especially remember this duet with the English star Ed Sheeran, “ 

”.

And their two voices coming together for a pop track infused with Afrobeat and West African rhythms.

►Also listen: Burna Boy, an artist at the top of Afropop

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