Sjava is a sure BET for grand music award
MUSICIAN Sjava walked away victorious at the prestigious BET Awards on Sunday night where he got the nod for the Viewers’ Choice Best International Act category.
He was nominated alongside Distruction Boyz‚ Congo’s Ipupa and Nigerian superstars Davido and Tiwa Savage. As Mzansi applauds Sjava‚ who had earlier said during a red carpet interview that he would only lose to Davido‚ it was acceptance speech that has gone viral.
Dressed in his trademark traditional wear‚ Sjava did the most with his moment. Davido may have been beaten by Sjava in the Viewer’s Choice Best International Act category, but he won the Best International Act category instead.
The BET Awards, established by Black Entertainment Television to recognise the best in African American culture, maintains an international category for black music from outside the United States.
Davido, 25, thanked his listeners in Nigeria and said that Africa as a continent “has been so blessed”.
“I’m telling you guys – come to Africa, eat the food, wear the clothes,” he told the audience full of African American A-list celebrities.
“Let’s collaborate, everybody. Let’s collaborate, man,” he said.
Davido, the US-educated son of a wealthy business mogul, is one of the leading forces in the Afrobeats movement that has swept the continent’s music scene.