Popular Nigerian singer, Divine Ikubor, aka Rema, has said
regardless of whatever genre he and his colleagues call their musical styles,
they will all still come together under the afrobeats umbrella for award shows.
The ‘Calm Down’ crooner stated this while receiving his
award for Best Male Artiste of the Year at the 2023 Headies Awards in Atlanta,
USA, on Sunday.
Rema said, “I must say it is very important that I should
let everyone know that I’m not here because of the awards. I’m here because it
is important to support our institutions. And when I said institutions, I mean
the bodies that support you to be able to achieve these major successes; the
media houses, award organisers, you know.
“We are in a very sensitive period if we don’t give our
attention to our institutions, we will miss this chance that we have. And we
will never have this chance again.
“Be it afrorave, afro this, afro that, last last, we go jam
for afrobeats award. So, this is our chance. We [afrobeats artists] are not the
first to do it. Reggae has done it before.”
His comment is against the backdrop of Burna Boy and some of
his colleagues denouncing the afrobeats tag on the grounds that they don’t want
to be “boxed”, and it (afrobeats) “lacks substance.”
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