I Had To Choose Between Greatness And Death – Burna Boy Speaks On His Huge Success
Damini Ogulu, the Grammy Award-winning singer, popularly known as Burna Boy, has said in an interview with GQ Magazine that at a point in his life, he had to choose between greatness and death.
According to him it was the reason for recent successes on the global stage.
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 African Giant also added that winning a Grammy award broke the mental stereotype 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.”
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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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