Burna Boy
Afro Fusion · Afrobeats · Dancehall · Reggae
Burna Boy is Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu, a Nigerian singer, songwriter and producer born in Port Harcourt on 2 July 1991. His maternal grandfather, Benson Idonije, once…
Biography
Burna Boy is Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu, a Nigerian singer, songwriter and producer born in Port Harcourt on 2 July 1991. His maternal grandfather, Benson Idonije, once managed Fela Kuti, and his mother, Bose Ogulu, has managed him for most of his career. He studied in the UK at Sussex and Oxford Brookes before coming home to make music.
“Like to Party” (2012) launched him, and his debut album L.I.F.E arrived in 2013. He founded Spaceship Entertainment in 2015 and signed with Atlantic in 2017 for Outside (2018). African Giant (2019), with “Ye” and “Anybody”, earned his first Grammy nomination. Twice as Tall (2020) won the Grammy for Best Global Music Album.
Love, Damini (2022), carried by “Last Last”, became the highest-debuting Nigerian album on the Billboard 200. I Told Them… (2023) and No Sign of Weakness (2025) followed. He has won Best International Act at the BET Awards four times, holds a national honour (MFR), and was the first African artist with two albums past a billion Spotify streams.
