Nigerian Afrobeats superstar, David Adeleke, aka Davido, thrilled the audience with an electrifying performance at the 23rd BET Awards, on Sunday night at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California.
The OBO singer gave a medley performance of his popular songs “Feel” and “Unavailable” off his most recent album, “Timeless.” The audience began to bounce and stream during his dazzling performance.
After Fireboy DML, who performed at “Culture’s Biggest Night” the previous year while riding the “Peru” wave, he became the second Nigerian musician to perform there as a result of his performance.
Earlier, Davido spoke on the phenomenal growth of Afrobeat in the USA in a side interview with Neena Rouhani of Billboard.
He said,
“I feel good performing tonight. It should be big. It should be amazing; it’s the first time I’m performing at the [BET] Awards, and I’m excited.”
“I remember when I used to live in America as an African, in Atlanta and in Alabama for a while. I used to share [African] music, and play music for my American friends and they love it. So, I always knew if we had the opportunity to be heard, eventually it [afrobeats explosion] would happen.
“Shoutout to all the afrobeats artists killing it as well. Everybody putting in works, coming out here doing tours, spreading the gospel [of afrobeats].”
