Rocky Dawuni, a Ghanaian Afro-Roots musician, has been nominated for the 2025 Grammy Awards.
He was nominated in the category for the Best Global Music Performance.
This is the fourth time Rocky has been nominated in the prestigious award scheme.
He earned the nomination in the Best Global Music Performance category with the song ‘Rise’.
He will be facing competition with artists like Angélique Kidjo & Soweto Gospel Choir—Sunlight to My Soul; Arooj Aftab—Raat Ki Rani; Jacob Collier featuring Anoushka Shankar & Varijashree Venugopal—A Rock Somewhere; Masa Takumi Featuring Ron Korb, Noshir Mody, & Dale Edward Chung—Kashira.and Sheila E. Featuring Gloria Estefan & Mimy Succar—Bemba Colorá.
Nominated in the Best African Music Performance category are Asake & Wizkid – MMS, Burna Boy – Higher, Chris Brown Featuring Davido & Lojay – Sensational, Tems – Love Me JeJe, and Yemi Alade – Tomorrow.
The musician was nominated in 2022 with his ‘Voice of Bunbon Vol. 1’ album in the Best Global Music Album category.
In December 2015, his sixth studio album, ‘Branches of the Same Tree’, was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album.
Dawuni is the first musician from Ghana to ever receive a GRAMMY nomination. He is also only the second African to be nominated in this category.
The 2025 Grammy Awards will be held on February 2, 2024, at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
