Musician and producer Cobhams Asuquo has berated the Grammy Awards over its 68th edition of the ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday<\/p>\n
Speaking via a video shared on Instagram on Tuesday, Cobham questioned why no Nigerian artist received an award at the ceremony.<\/p>\n
He accused the global music body of using Nigerian artistes to boost the Gross Domestic Product of Los Angeles while giving \u201cfleeting recognition\u201d in return.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think Grammy is using Nigerians to boost the GDP of Los Angeles. It\u2019s like a carrot dangling in front of us, and it goes away,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n The musician pointed to the repeated nominations for Nigerian acts without a win as part of what he sees as a flawed validation system. He said the industry too often chases foreign awards instead of building strong institutions at home.<\/p>\n \u201cI think we need to build something that is ours,\u201d<\/em> Asuquo said, adding, \u201cIt\u2019s only America that will do Super Bowl and be playing it themselves.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n At the 2026 ceremony in Los Angeles, South African singer Tyla won the Best African Music Performance award for her song \u2018Push 2 Start\u2019, edging out several Nigerian nominations.<\/p>\n Nigerian entries in that category included Davido and Omah Lay with \u2018With You\u2019, Burna Boy with \u2018Love\u2019, Ayra Starr and Wizkid with \u2018Gimme Dat\u2019, and others.<\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Musician and producer Cobhams Asuquo has berated the Grammy Awards over its 68th edition of the ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday Speaking via a video shared on Instagram on Tuesday, Cobham questioned why no Nigerian artist received an award at the ceremony. He accused the global music body of using Nigerian artistes to boost […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":240972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[3123,3124],"class_list":["post-240971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-2025-grammy-awards-nomination","tag-cobhams-asuquo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/images-2.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}