Burna Boy Made It to New York Times’ “The 54 Best Songs of 2019”
Nigerian Grammy nominated singer and songwriter Burna Boy has bagged another achievement as his hit song “Anybody” got listed by the New York Times among the Best 54 songs of 2019.
Burna Boy’s Anybody was on number three on the list of 54 while the first two are Lizzo for the song ‘Cuz I Love You’ and FKA twigs for ‘Cellophane.’
Others include Tame Impala for ‘It Might Be Time,’ Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, ‘Bright Horses,’ Angel Olsen, ‘Lark,’ Joe Henry for ‘The Fact of Love’ among others.
Anybody is a track off Burna Boy’s African Giant album that has received a Grammy Awards nomination in November.
The widely-acclaimed album was selected in the Best World Music Album category alongside Angelique Kidjo’s Celia among others.
Read What the the America based newspaper wrote about the song;
“The calm, husky tone and understated beats of Burna Boy, from Nigeria, belie a determination to unite Africa and its diaspora. This track from his 2019 album, ‘African Giant,’ is both insinuating and ambitious,”