Fireboy DML: Of course Shenseea for a hard-hitting Afro Nation Miami 2023 performance
It’s all types of celebration vibes when Fireboy DML is around. The hip-hop artist made sure to have his presence felt at this week’s Afro Nation Miami 2023 multi-day music festival even tagging along fellow music star Shenseea.
The Nigerian king delivered in epic fashion and there’s pics to prove it. Peep the details and keep scrolling to get lost in the fire moments. All photos come courtesy of Melody Tim. Huge salute on the photo credit, Mel! Scrolling and swiping are definitely for the culture.
Afro Nation Miami welcomed award-winning Nigerian singer-songwriter Fireboy DML, who delivered an electric performance to an enthusiastic audience of Afrobeats fanatics. The audience was treated to a rendition of his multi-platinum certified single, "Peru," a global sensation that has amassed an incredible 1.6 billion streams. Fireboy also showcased hits from his acclaimed third studio album, "Playboy." The excitement reached new heights when Jamaican dancehall artist Shenseea joined Fireboy on stage for a thrilling collaboration on their acclaimed single, "Diana," also featuring Chris Brown.
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A groundbreaking global artist, Fireboy just released his new hit single “Someone” on May 3rd making a splash with his 2023 return. Following his third studio album Playboy in March of last year, which has amassed 2.6 billion streams to date, alongside platinum single “Peru” which has reached 1.6 billion streams to date. Accompanying the new album, he set out for his month-long global tour which kicked off on March 16th in Switzerland making stops in Paris, Netherlands, and Denmark before coming to an end in Poland. This follows on the heels of his successful first headlining US tour, “Apollo” in 2022, which made stops across the US in Rhode Island, New York, Maryland, Ohio, Illinois, Minnesota, Georgia, Texas, Colorado, California, and Washington. Fireboy was nominated for “Best International Act” at the 2022 BET Awards where he made history becoming the first Nigerian artist to perform on the BET Awards stage and is slated to perform next at this year Afro Nation Portugal June 28-30.
Dubbed the ‘future’ of Afrobeats, Fireboy DML first emerged on the Nigerian music scene in 2019 with the re-release of his breakout single “Jealous” which was originally a part of YBNL’s 2018 collaborative album, YBNL Mafia Family. On June 14, 2019, he followed up “Jealous” with the explosive romantic number “What If I Say” and later that year, on the 29th of November released his debut album, Laughter, Tears and Goosebumps. LTG had no features for a debut album and amassed over 100 million streams by January 2020. The album maintained the #1 position across the Nigerian charts for over 12 weeks with ‘Jealous’ becoming one of the most played songs on African radio stations that year. Building on the success of LTG, Fireboy followed up his debut with an inventive sophomore project, Apollo.
It received a whopping rating of 8.3 on Pitchfork, amongst other accolades. In 2021, Fireboy released his biggest single yet, “Peru”. The single would go on to feature Ed Sheeran in an explosive remix peaking at No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart and garnering over 20.6 million Spotify streams, earning it a hallowed place as the most streamed song in Nigeria in early 2022. His newest album, Playboy, sees the sensual, sweet-natured artist shift gears into a confident, self-possessed bad boy persona resulting in a Pitchfork review of the album, which got a 7.4 rating. He has been nominated for a number of awards including the Best International Act award at the 2022 BET Awards, where he became the first Nigerian artist to perform on the BET stage and the NAACP Image Awards in 2021, amongst others. Fireboy remains one of the leading Afrobeats talents reinventing a wholly global future of the fast-rising genre.
