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How I got an epiphany – Burna Boy
The ‘African Giant’ and Grammy Award winner, Damini Ogulu aka Burna Boy, had revealed he had a moment of sudden and great revelation that changed his life forever.
The artiste, who yesterday released his first solo single of 2021 – ‘Kilometre, in an interview with GQ Magazine that at a point in his life, he had to choose between greatness and death, and that was what led to his recent successes on the global stage.
He added that while ruminating about this, he got his epiphany.
He said, “Following several collaborations with foreign artistes of African heritage, I just made up my mind that I wanted it all. I wanted to be the greatest. That’s when it hit me really hard that I had to do it. It was that or death.”
The self-acclaimed African Giant also stated that winning a Grammy award broke the mental cycle of people who felt that certain things were unachievable.
He added, “I was not celebrating because of myself. It was almost as if I had broken a mental cycle of our people. Our people had been very mentally oppressed to feel like they could not do certain things, and that certain things were unreachable.”
The singer also noted that he felt he had to think for a whole generation.
He said, “Every day, I realise more that things are bigger than me. I have to think for a lot of people – basically a whole generation – before I think of myself.”
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