{"id":20872,"date":"2021-04-01T00:00:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T00:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/burna-boys-twice-as-tall-nominated-for-2021-brit-awards\/"},"modified":"2021-04-01T00:00:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T00:00:17","slug":"burna-boys-twice-as-tall-nominated-for-2021-brit-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/burna-boys-twice-as-tall-nominated-for-2021-brit-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Burna Boy\u2019s \u2018Twice as tall\u2019 nominated for 2021 BRIT awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>By Alao Abiodun<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>\u2018Twice as tall\u2018, the album of Grammys winner Burna Boy has been nominated for the 2021 BRIT awards.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Nation<\/em> had reported the 29-year- old singer became the first Nigerian to win an individual Grammy for best album in the \u2018World Music category\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Organisers of the 2021 BRIT Awards, which is sometimes referred to as the British version of the Grammys, unveiled the nominees on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Read Also:\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/thenationonlineng.net\/burna-boy-insight-into-fifth-album-twice-as-tall\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Burna Boy: Insight into fifth album Twice as Tall<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>Burna Boy was nominated for the \u2018International Male Solo Artist\u2019 category alongside The Weekend, Bruce Springsteen, Childish Gambino and Tame Impala.<\/p>\n<p>He was nominated for the same category last year for \u2018African Giant\u2019 his 2019 album but lost to Tyler The Creator, American singer-songwriter.<\/p>\n<p>The awards will take place on 11 May 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Usually held in February, the ceremony was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic<\/p>\n<p>It will be hosted by comedian Jack Whitehall.<\/p>\n<p>Sourced From: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/thenationonlineng.net\/burna-boys-twice-as-tall-nominated-for-2021-brit-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\">Latest Nigeria News, Nigerian Newspapers, Politics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alao Abiodun \u2018Twice as tall\u2018, the album of Grammys winner Burna Boy has been nominated for the 2021 BRIT awards. The Nation had reported the 29-year- old singer became the first Nigerian to win an individual Grammy for best album in the \u2018World Music category\u2019. Organisers of the 2021 BRIT Awards, which is sometimes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11553],"tags":[13789,271,8659,13790,11881,3548,13788,8862],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}