In its inaugural year, the African music performance category for the 66th Grammy Awards is stacked with some of the continent’s biggest stars of the moment: Asake and Olamide (for “Amapiano”), Burna Boy (“City Boys”), Davido and Musa Keys (“Unavailable”), Ayra Starr (“Rush”) and Tyla (“Water”) are leading lights from the wide landscape of Afrobeats, the catch-all term for styles ranging from Afro-fusion, amapiano, bongo flava, high life, Fuji and Afro-house, among many other musical genres.
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