Grammy Award for Best African Music Performance | |
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Awarded for | Quality vocal or instrumental African music recordings (tracks or singles only) |
Country | United States |
Presented by | National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences |
First awarded | 2024 |
Currently held by | Tyla – "Water" (2024) |
Website | grammy.com |
The Grammy Award for Best African Music Performance is an award presented by the Recording Academy to honor quality African music[1] performances in any given year. The award was presented for the first time at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards in 2024, and is a sister category to the Best Global Music Performance award, following on from the creation of that category in 2022, and sits in the global genre field.
The academy announced the new category in June 2023, stating that the award "recognizes recordings that utilize unique local expressions from across the African continent, highlighting regional melodic, harmonic and rhythmic musical traditions." The award honors, but is not limited to African popular music[1] (Afro pop),[2] genres.[3][4][5][6]
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