OkoYibo:
LIST OF NIGERIANS WHO HAVE WON THE GRAMMYS

Lekan Babalola: Won 2 Grammys. 2006 and 2009)
Seal [Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel) Won 4 Grammy's)
Sade Ade[Helen Folashade Adu]: 1 Grammy's
Chamillionaire [ Hakeem Seriki] 1 Grammy's
Sikiru Adepoju; 2 Grammy's: 1991, 2008.
  Kevin Olusola: 3 Grammy's in 2015, 2016, 2017.

All the 13 Grammys won by Nigerians were won by Yorubas.
Yorubas Alone = 13 Grammys Others = Nothing to show.

naptu2:
Throwback pictures of a two-time Grammy Award winning Nigerian musician.

Sikiru Adepoju is a legendary talking drummer from Eruwa in Oyo State Nigeria. He is descended from a long line of drummers and his father began teaching him how to play the drums when he was six years old. He and his brothers played in the family band. He later became a member of Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey’s Inter-Reformers Band when he was a teenager and this was when he became famous in Nigeria.

He travelled to the United States in 1985 in order to play with afrobeat legend Orlando Julius and master drummer Babatunde Olatunji. Olatunji had been famous and very influential in the music scene in the United States since the early 1960s and he introduced Sikiru Adepoju to his friends, including Micky Hart.

Musician, musicologist and drummer for the Grateful Dead, Mickey Hart had an idea to make an album in which all the best drummers from around the world would feature.

The album featured Mickey Hart (United States), Zakir Hussain and T.H. “Vikku” Vinayakram (both from India), Babatunde Olatunji and Sikiru Adepoju (from Nigeria), Airto Moreira and his wife Flora Purim (from Brazil) and Giovanni Hidalgo and Frank Colon from Puerto Rico.
The album won the first ever Grammy Award in the “World Music Album” category at the 1992 Grammy Award ceremony. It also reached number 1 on the Billboard chart for Top World Music Albums.

Unfortunately Babatunde Olatunji died in 2003.

Sikiru Adepoju has collaborated with many musicians including Stevie Wonder, Babatunde Olatunji, Carlos Santana, Ebenezer Obey, Airto Moreira, Bimbo Abimbola, Mickey Hart, Orlando Julius, Muruga Booker and The String Cheese Incident.

Sikiru Adepoju continued to collaborate with Micky Hart on many projects after the death of Babatunde Olatunji. One of those projects was the Global Drum Project which won the 2009 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music Album. It also reached number six on the Billboard chart for top world music albums. The album featured Mickey Hart, Zakir Hussain, Sikiru Adepoju, and Giovanni Hidalgo.


Micky Hart and Sikiru Adepoju holding their Grammy Award trophies at the press room of the 51st Grammy Award ceremony at the Staples Centre in Los Angeles on February 8th, 2009.

Sultty:
was thinking about d same thing bro, they rather celebrate few people cos y have I not even heard d name up to now

OkoYibo:
LIST OF NIGERIANS WHO HAVE WON THE GRAMMYS


Lekan Babalola: Won 2 Grammys. 2006 and 2009)

Seal [Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel) Won 4 Grammy's)

Sade Ade[Helen Folashade Adu]: 1 Grammy's

Chamillionaire [ Hakeem Seriki] 1 Grammy's

Sikiru Adepoju; 2 Grammy's: 1991, 2008.
 
Kevin Olusola: 3 Grammy's in 2015, 2016, 2017.


All the 13 Grammys won by Nigerians were won by Yorubas.

Yorubas Alone = 13 Grammys
Others = Nothing to show.

shukuokukobambi:


You forgot Angelique Kidjo bro

OkoYibo:


Baba, let's not add the Yorubas in other African countries. That would ruin the self esteem of those developers for ever.

naptu2:
Sikiru Adepoju and Babarunde Olatunji also featured on 2Pac Shakur's posthumous album "The Rose That Grew From Concrete". The album is made up of various stars reading 2Pac's poems.

Babatunde Olatunji recited the poem on this track, while he and Sikiru Adepoju played the drums.

2Pac ft Babatunde Olatunji and Sikiru Adepoju - Wake Me When I'm Free (2000).



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73azwBzEAaM

Brownbarbie97:
This is good news.Never knew we had an indigenous Nigerian Grammy award winner.
I hope you yorubas are observing and are infact surprised at how calm this thread is,you guys are even waiting and indirectly daring pple to come and spoil this thread but as y'all can see we are not haters and simply dgaf about you guys.You have the liberty to celebrate your own.
But when it comes to Igbos you guys will be like "he's nigerian,stop tribalism","you're chest beating".Some of y'all will even go as far as to google other "rival" Yoruba counterparts to undermine the person being celebrated.
I hope you guys realize you're the cause of tribalism on this forum and seriously work on it!!Thank you

OkoYibo:
LIST OF NIGERIANS WHO HAVE WON THE GRAMMYS


Lekan Babalola: Won 2 Grammys. 2006 and 2009)

Seal [Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel) Won 4 Grammy's)

Sade Ade[Helen Folashade Adu]: 1 Grammy's

Chamillionaire [ Hakeem Seriki] 1 Grammy's

Sikiru Adepoju; 2 Grammy's: 1991, 2008.
 
Kevin Olusola: 3 Grammy's in 2015, 2016, 2017.


All the 13 Grammys won by Nigerians were won by Yorubas.

Yorubas Alone = 13 Grammys
Others = Nothing to show.

OkoYibo:
LIST OF NIGERIANS WHO HAVE WON THE GRAMMYS


Lekan Babalola: Won 2 Grammys. 2006 and 2009)

Seal [Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel) Won 4 Grammy's)

Sade Ade[Helen Folashade Adu]: 1 Grammy's

Chamillionaire [ Hakeem Seriki] 1 Grammy's

Sikiru Adepoju; 2 Grammy's: 1991, 2008.
 
Kevin Olusola: 3 Grammy's in 2015, 2016, 2017.


All the 13 Grammys won by Nigerians were won by Yorubas.

Yorubas Alone = 13 Grammys
Others = Nothing to show.

OkoYibo:


You're a mediocre who comes from a long lineage of mediocres. You should stop hating on successful people, maybe you'll accidentally encounter success.

If you've never produced a Grammy's winner from the backwater place you come from, don't make the mistake of quoting me.

oyienootieno:


Am certain that my comment is too much for you to comprehend. In simple words what i mean is you ahould know where to apply the full stop. Hope this will help you in future.

OkoYibo:
LIST OF NIGERIANS WHO HAVE WON THE GRAMMYS


Lekan Babalola: Won 2 Grammys. 2006 and 2009)

Seal [Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel) Won 4 Grammy's)

Sade Ade[Helen Folashade Adu]: 1 Grammy's

Chamillionaire [ Hakeem Seriki] 1 Grammy's

Sikiru Adepoju; 2 Grammy's: 1991, 2008.
 
Kevin Olusola: 3 Grammy's in 2015, 2016, 2017.


All the 13 Grammys won by Nigerians were won by Yorubas.

Yorubas Alone = 13 Grammys
Others = Nothing to show.

ayenitre:
If there are any noise merchants here reading this, you'll never win a Grammy if you stick to the watered-down hip hop genre, you have to come back home, learn about your roots, your culture, and learn how to play musical instrument and read a musical note while you're at it. Check out all the homegrown nominees and winners, did y'all see a pattern?

King Sunny Ade - Juju(vocals), Guitar, Piano
Femi Kuti - Afrobeat(vocals), Saxophone, Trumpet, Piano
Angelique Kidjo - Afrobeat(vocals), afropop(vocals)
Babatunde Olatunji - Bata(talking drum)
Sikiru Adepoju - Bata(talking drum)
Lekan Babalola - African Jazz (vocals), Conga, Bongo drum

Please let's not devolve this thread into ethnic chaos, we can do better than this as people.

OkoYibo:


Baba, let's not add the Yorubas in other African countries. That would ruin the self esteem of those developers for ever.