The Grammy Awards are administered by the Recording Academy, which has established a category for “Best African Music Performance.”
The category was one of the three new ones that the academy revealed on Tuesday in a statement posted on its website.
The Best Pop Dance Recording and Best Alternative Jazz Album categories are the other two newly established ones.
The new categories will start to receive nominations with the show the following year.
“The addition of the Best African Music Performance category reflects how African acts such as Burna Boy, Wizkid, Black Sherif and Tems —along with the rise of the Afrobeats genre—have become global chart-topping stars and streaming juggernauts,” the statement reads in part.
Afrobeats, Afropop, Amapiano, High Life, Fuji, and other genres of modern and traditional African music are all eligible for the Grammy award for “Best African Music Performance.”
