I’m Grateful To The Pioneers Of Afrobeats For Paving The Way For Me – Rema

Popular singer, Rema has come out to give a rousing speech after winning the prize for Best Afrobeats.

He recently won the award for his remixed single “Calm Down” featuring Selena Gomez at the MTV Video Music Awards, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, he is grateful to pioneers and trailblazers like the late Fela Kuti, Don Jazzy and D’Prince, Tuface Idibia, D’Banj, Timaya, Runtown, Wizkid, Davido, and Burna Boy for paving the way for young artistes to shine right now.

Popular comedian, Tiffany Haddish presented the award to Rema and Gomez for their massive hit.

WOW.

Divine Ikubor (born 1 May 2000), known professionally as Rema, is a Nigerian singer and rapper. He rose to stardom after releasing the song “Dumebi”. In 2019, Rema got signed to Jonzing World record owned by D’Prince who has an affiliation with Mavin Records.

He is best known internationally for his 2022 hit single “Calm Down”, the remix with American singer Selena Gomez of which peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, and led the U.S. Afrobeats Songs for a record-setting 41 weeks.

Divine Ikubor was born into a Christian family in Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria. He grew up singing and rapping while he was in secondary school. He attended his primary and secondary school education at Ighile Group of Schools, Edo State. His father and elder brother are deceased, and Rema was left to look after his mother.

In May 2021, Rema announced he would be calling his sound “Afrorave”, a subgenre of Afrobeats with influences of Arabian and Indian music which has led to him having one of the strongest fanbases in the country known as Ravers.