It’s not surprising that the lead single from Burna Boy’s seventh album was called Sittin’ on Top of the World. Earlier this summer, the Nigerian artist also known as Damini Ogulu became the first African musician to sell out stadiums in the UK and US, performing to huge crowds at the London Stadium and Citi Field in New York. As yet another stadium appearance, he also sang before kick-off at the Champions League Final in Istanbul.
His UK connections stretch way back. He was an unlikely media student at the University of Sussex and Oxford Brookes University in the late 2000s, and on the song Glory on last year’s album Love, Damini, he revealed that he had also spent time in HM Prison Chelmsford.
