GENGE AND BONGO FLAVA ADDED IN NEW GRAMMY CATEGORY

The Recording Academy has added three new categories to the Grammy Awards, including Best African Music performance, Best Pop Dance recording and Best Alternative Jazz album.

The changes were voted on and passed at the academy’s Board of Trustees meeting last month. The 66th Grammys, which now has 94 categories, will air live in early 2024.

Best African Music Performance will recognise recordings that utilise unique local expression form across the African continent and highlight regional melodic, harmonic and rhythmic music traditions.

The category included but not limited to the Afrobeat, Afro-fusion, Afro pop, Alte, Amapiano, Bongo Flava, Genge, Kizomba, Chimurenga, High Life, Fuji, Kwassa, Ndombolo, Mapouka, Ghanaian Drill, Afro-house, South African Hip-hop and Ethio Jazz genres.