Burna Boy, Grammy-winning hero of Afrofusion, plays Tampa on Monday

Last week he became the first African artist to sellout TD Garden in Boston.

By Ray Roa on Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 1:57 pm

Photo via Atlantic Records

Burna Boy, who plays Amalie Arena, in Tampa, Florida on March 11, 2024.

Last week Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu became the first-ever African act to sell-out Boston’s storied TD Garden.

The 32-year-old also received an official declaration from the city, which named March 2 as “Burna Boy Day.”

The praise and success is well deserved, too. For the last decade-and-a-half, the Nigerian songwriter and producer has been a torchbearer not just for Afrobeats and Afrofusion, but an embodiment of the joy that runs throughout communities made up of people from the African diaspora.

The Grammy-winner arrives in support of his 2024 album, I Told Them…, which features guest spots from a host of others including 21 Savage, RZA and GZA of the Wu-Tang Clan and J. Cole.

Tickets to see Burna Boy play Amalie Arena in Tampa on Monday, March 11 are still available and start at $59.50.
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Ray Roa

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief in August 2019. Past work can be seen at Suburban Apologist, Tampa Bay Times, Consequence of Sound and The...

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