Armed with these means, he began to create his own beats on an old computer. He began making music at just ten years old when a fellow classmate at school gave him a copy of the production software FruityLoops. In advance of his next LP, 2019's African Giant, Burna made his first appearance at California's Coachella festival.īurna Boy was born Damini Ogulu in Lagos in 1991. His international exposure widened with 2018's Outside, which hit number three on the Billboard Reggae chart and won the Nigeria Entertainment Award for Album of the Year. Over the next five years, Burna released two more albums and collaborated with a variety of artists, from J Hus and Skales to Fall Out Boy and Lilly Allen. The LeriQ-produced 2012 single 'Like to Party' proved to be his breakout track and paved the way for his full-length debut, L.I.F.E, a year later. With his fusion of dancehall, reggae, Afro-beat, and pop, Burna Boy emerged in the early part of the 2010s as one of Nigeria's fastest-rising stars.