Few things you probably didn't know about Burna Boy. (Read)

Few things you didn’t know about Burna Boy.


He is born Damini Ogulu, and arrived into the world on July 2, 1991,in Mbiama in Ahoada West Local government area, Port Harcourt, Rivers State. He was born to Nigerian parents Mr. Samuel Ogulu (father), and Mrs. Bose Ogulu (mother), who raised him in Ahoada and later moved to Lagos State, where the singer completed his basic education. According to records, Burna Boy attended Montessori International school, from where he moved to Corona, Agbora, Lagos, for his secondary school education.
He later relocated to London to further his education,but he never ended it, as he began to focus more on his musical career. He will skip classes and find his way to some underground corners in London where he passives anything like the sound of music. This was when it became obvious to his mum that his son was really not an academics person, but a different nature altogether. However, his mum didn’t stop, when Burna came back from London, he got him an intern job on radio, and this was where the big act was soon set to catch up with limelight.

Burna at his secondary level, had already formed a musical band with his fellow colleagues, where they perform at every school function they were been called. It was at the end of his secondary schooling that his mum received a call from one of the Burna Boy’s form teachers, where the teacher aptly informed her for she to be serious with his son’s musical career, urging her to b ready to accept greatness and deal with fame.

At his early stage in life, Burna loved painting, and this was his major’, he even fancied himself to been a super hero, like batman and Superman. For me even, his beating to music came first from his video games, and he tactfully faces them with his musical prowess and buttons. By nature, his mum revealed him to been an inquisitive person, and will always ask why things are been done in the way they are, or why they happen the way they did, and on such different subjects bordering on life.

Burna Boy's limelight Kickstarted from his first encounters with freestyles. When he closes from his internship job, he will set himself off to the studio, with his best company — the Gen at the boot of his car, cause there might probably not be light in the studio, and to avoid any form of excuse, hence the carriage of the gadget. It wasn’t long before one of the producers in the studio aired one of Burna Boy’s song, “Freedom freestyle” respectively, and that was how people started calling in to identify with the rare talent, and this was how the story of the “Don Gorgon” break forth. Although his main limelight in the music industry came from his “Like to party” hit single, there had been such minor hits to his name for instance “Shobeedo freestyle” was many among others.

One thing Burna's mother never unraveled during the trials of his son musical early journeys, was where he had his most visited studio, which was reported to be along the pipelines of Port Harcourt with no exact map to Bose Ogulu. While some kids where trying to find there ways around nursery school rhymes, Burna Boy has already mastered Naughty By Nature’s Hip Hop Hooray from word to word, and singing it with full characterization.
Later on, his grandfather’s house, Benson Idonue, became the home for his musing, as it was filled with loads of Fela Kuti’s materials, whereby his grandfather happened to be the first manager to the legendary music icon, Fela, this is so the more reason to why the iconic star is Burna's mentor.

Would it come of as a surprise to you, if you’re told that Burna Boy’s manager is his real mum, Bose Ogulu, who is also said to be the daughter of Fela's manager. And she was once a dancer on stage with Fela Kuti.

Apart from been a manager, she also has her personality steered on other things — Ogulu’s own accomplishments as not only a manager, but an academic and professional. With a Bachelor of Arts in foreign languages (she speaks French, Italian, German, English, and Yoruba), and a Masters of Arts in translation, Ogulu had a successful career as a translator for the Federation of West African Chambers of Commerce that predates and rivals any social media fame surrounding her. Her commitment to youth culture runs deep; from 1997 to 2015 she was the CEO of Language Bridges, a language and music school, where she organized cultural immersion trips for over 1,800 young people. Present-day, she not only manages the career of her son, but of other acts like musical and visual artist Nissi Nation and author Benson Idonije. And for 29 of her years, she’s been a wife. (She is also the mother of three children). She is also popularly referred to as Mama Burna.

Burna Boy is currently dating Stephanie Victoria Allen, better known by her stage name Stefflon Don, a British—Jamaican rapper, singer, and songwriter best known for her 2017 single "Hurtin' Me" featuring French Montana, which peaked at number 7 on the UK Singles Chart.

Burna Boy is been celebrated for having infuse Afro pop into music, yet making it sound danceable and filled with very conscious lines about the happenings around the environment and society, which is the main messages behind Burna Boy’s songs — the occurring happenings in the society, the lack of good roads, water, electricity and high poverty level etc. For Burna, Nigerians are very good people and that they adapt to things easily, which even makes their plight enjoyable to them.

Burna is also been celebrated for staying true to his Afro musing sound. He is also a reggae recording artiste, plus a performer and dancer. His major hits vary from “Ye”, “Gbona”, and his recent released single he titled, “Dangote”.

Burna Boy is loved from within and beyond. And has a thing for storming every of his performances. He has basked uncountable awards to his name, plus a recent Artist Spotlight Stories from YouTube content creators, this was because of the search feeds he has pulled and kept pushing.