Burna Boy gets award over sold-out concert

Dancehall artiste, Burna Boy has been given an award by the Academy Music Group (AMG), a popular owner-operator of music venues in the United Kingdom.

The ‘Gbona’ singer got the plaque from AMG in recognition of his sold-out show on Sunday, 7th October.

AMG congratulated the artiste on not just selling out the entire O2 (which holds 4,921 people at maximum capacity), but also putting on a brilliant and safe performance.

The sold out numbers were confirmed by Nielsen – a global measurement and data analytics company that provides the most complete and trusted statistics available for consumers and markets worldwide.

The concert at the O2 Academy was the 4th stop on Burna Boy’s Life on the Outside UK tour.

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Burna Boy is a Nigerian based Afro-fusion singer, songwriter and performing artiste signed to his record label Spaceship Entertainment. Born Damini Ogulu in Port Harcourt to parents Bosede and Samuel Ogulu, he is the only son and eldest of three children.

Burna Boy founded and led a band called “Def Code” in his high school days at Corona. He headlined a performance at the national stadium as one of the highlights of the 50th anniversary of corona schools. The quest for knowledge took him outside the shores of Nigeria to the United Kingdom to study Media Technology at the University of Sussex from 2008 – 2009 and Oxford Brooke’s University from 2009 – 2010 to study Media Communications and Culture. Immediately after that, he did a one year internship with Rhythm 93.7 FM Port Harcourt before officially launching his professional music career when he was signed on to Aristocrat records, prompting a permanent relocation to Lagos.