{"id":526480,"date":"2024-02-04T23:34:07","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T23:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerianewspapers.net\/news\/davidos-hopes-dashed-as-three-nominations-yield-no-wins\/"},"modified":"2024-02-04T23:34:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T23:34:07","slug":"davidos-hopes-dashed-as-three-nominations-yield-no-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerianewspapers.net\/news\/davidos-hopes-dashed-as-three-nominations-yield-no-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Davido&#8217;s hopes dashed as three nominations yield no wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Nigerian artiste, David Adeleke popularly known as Davido, has lost all three categories where he got nominations for the 66th Grammy Awards. <\/p>\n<p>Davido\u2019s song \u2018Feel\u2019 was nominated for the Best Global Music Performance category, \u2018 Timeless\u2019 was nominated for the Album of the Year category and his \u2018Unavailable\u2019 was nominated for Best African Music Performance. <\/p>\n<p>He, however, was unable to win any of the nominations. <\/p>\n<p>A few hours before the award ceremony, Davido, in an interview with Billboard\u2019s Tetris Kelly at the Pre-Grammy show, said he would go into a wild celebration if he clinches the award for the Best African Music Performance category.<\/p>\n<p>However, female South African rapper, Tyla, won the award for her song \u2018Water.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>Davido had stated, \u201cI am just happy that we all get to shine. What if there was no (African) category? So, at the end of the day, we should all be happy that we have this category, something to call our own. Whoever wins, it\u2019s okay. If I win, we are celebrating. We go crazy.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>He added that the African Music Category at the premier global music award was long overdue.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian artiste, David Adeleke popularly known as Davido, has lost all three categories where he got nominations for the 66th Grammy Awards. Davido\u2019s song \u2018Feel\u2019 was nominated for the Best&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-526480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-punch-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianewspapers.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianewspapers.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianewspapers.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianewspapers.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianewspapers.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianewspapers.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianewspapers.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianewspapers.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianewspapers.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianewspapers.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}