IANA Blog- April 2022
Happy April. For those that don’t know, the Grammy Awards happened. The Grammys are one of the most major music Awards in the world…although, I’m not alone in saying that they get their picks wrong…most of the time. I do remember when Burna Boy won though, and he said his win was a “big win for his generation of Africans from around the world.” I also think of the many Nigerian musicians/artists that have won Grammys, and doing the research I found out it was Burna and the others are Babatunde Olatunji (the first Nigerian to win), Sikiru Adeponju and Wizkid. As Bob Marley states, “one great thing about music, when it hits, you feel no pain.” Music definitely plays a part in our lives, it can be used to raise someone’s mood, get you excited, calm, enhance brain functioning and used for liberation. Here in the U.S., African American gospel music, Jazz, folk music, other genres of music played a part in the Civil Rights movement, and in South Africa, music played a huge role in the A...