Made Kuti the son of legendary afrobeat musician, Femi Kuti,
and the grandson of the progenitor of the music genre, afrobeat, has bagged his
first Grammy Award nomination at the 64th edition of the ceremony.
Made joins his father, and uncle, Seun Kuti, in the league
of Grammy nominees. While his father has been nominated for the award about
five times, his uncle has received the nomination once.
Excited about the nomination with his debut album, Legacy +,
a joint effort by the singer and his father, Made stated that years of practising
has eventually paid off.
He said, “My mind is blown! A Grammy nomination from my
debut album! All those years I spent practising all those instruments by myself
to record an album, I would play every instrument by myself! Notating the
music, recording it, editing it! Thank you to everyone that was involved.”
The nominations for the 64th Grammy awards were announced on
Tuesday, November 23, 2021, by the Recording Academy. Made Kuti, alongside his
father, made the cut for the nominations in one of the 86 categories for the
2022 GRAMMYs Awards.
Made Kuti and Femi Kuti’s joint album, ‘Legacy +,’ was
nominated for the Best Global Music Album at The 64th Grammys. The Kutis were
nominated in the same category alongside Angelique Kidjo for her album, ‘Mother
Nature,’ Rocky Dawumi for the album, ‘Voice of Bunbon Volume 1,’ and Wizkid for
his album, ‘Made In Lagos.’
Other nominees in the category are Nigeria’s Tomi Owo and
Olu, South Africa’s Thandi Ntuli, Zoe Modiga, and Bokani Dyer, Cameroon’s
Franck Biyong, Kenya’s Hornsphere, Mozambique’s Jimmy Dludlu.
Made, the first son of Femi Kuti and Funke Kuti has been
walking on a familiar and family path of music since he was young. He was a
member of his father’s Positive Force band for a while after he graduated from
London’s Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in 2018.
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