I know many of you have heard people saying that no African has won the Grammy awards before but its a lie.I hear it everyday on T.v and radio. Its not the fact.
Sade Adu won 5 Grammy awards.Her father is a Nigerian and she was birthed in Nigeria so she's also a Nigerian. Helen Folasade Adu, OBE (Yoruba : Fọláṣadé Adú;
born 16 January 1959), better known as Sade ( /
ʃ ɑː ˈd eɪ/ shah- DAY), is a British Nigerian singer-
songwriter , composer , and record producer . She
first achieved success in the 1980s as the
frontwoman and lead vocalist of the Brit and
Grammy Award-winning group Sade. She has
been nominated six times for the Brit Award for
Best British Female. [1] In 2002, she received an
OBE from Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace
for services to music, and she dedicated her
award to "all black women in England". [2] In
2012, Sade was listed at number 30 on VH1 's
100 Greatest Women In Music.[3] Sade has a
contralto vocal range. [4]
Early life
Sade was born in Ibadan, Oyo State , Nigeria. [5]
Her middle name, Folasade, means "honour
confers your crown". [6] Her parents, Adebisi
Adu, a Nigerian lecturer in economics of Yoruba
background, and Anne Hayes, an English district
nurse, met in London , married in 1955 and
moved to Nigeria. [5] Her parents separated
however -- Anne Hayes returned to England,
taking four-year-old [7] Sade and older brother
Banji with her to live with their grandparents just
outside Colchester , Essex. When Sade was 11
years old, she moved to Holland-on-Sea , Essex
to live with her mother, [8] and after completing
school at 18 she moved to London and studied at
Saint Martin's School of Art .[5][7]
Career
While in college, she joined a soul band, Pride, in
which she sang backing vocals. [5] Her solo
performances of the song " Smooth Operator "
attracted the attention of record companies and
in 1983, she signed a solo deal with Epic
Records taking three members of the band,
Stuart Matthewman , Andrew Hale and Paul
Denman, with her. [5] Sade and her band
produced the first of a string of hit albums.
Sade's debut album, Diamond Life , was released
in 1984, reaching No. 2 in the UK Album Chart ,
selling over 1.2 million copies in the UK, and won
the Brit Award for Best British Album in 1985. [9]
The album was also a hit internationally,
reaching No. 1 in several countries and the top
ten in the US where it has sold in excess of 4
million copies. In late 1985, Sade released their
second album, Promise , which peaked at No. 1
in both the UK and the US. [10][11] It was
certified double platinum in the UK, and
quadruple platinum in the US. In 1986 the band
won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist . [12] In
2010, The Sunday Times named her the most
successful solo British female artist in history.
[5]
In 2002, she appeared on the Red Hot
Organization 's Red Hot and Riot, a compilation
CD in tribute to the music of fellow Nigerian
musician, Fela Kuti. She recorded a remix of her
hit single, " By Your Side ", for the album and was
billed as a co-producer.
Personal life
She squatted in Tottenham, North London in the
1980s, with her then-boyfriend Robert Elms. [13]
In 1989, she married Spanish film director Carlos
Pliego. Their marriage ended in 1995. [5] She
gave birth to a daughter, Mickailia (who studied
at Wycliffe College in Gloucestershire ), in 1995
after a relationship with Jamaican music
producer Bob Morgan. She moved briefly to the
Caribbean to live with him in the late 1990s, but
they later separated and she returned to
England. [14] In 2002, she was made an Officer of
the Order of the British Empire for services to
popular music. [15] She lives in the English
countryside and, prior to the release of Soldier of
Love in 2010, the Daily Mail described her as
"famously reclusive". [16]

seal and chamillioniare also won grammy...not sure if they were born in nigeria. but they nigerian parents

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