{"id":215626,"date":"2026-03-23T01:57:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T01:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=215626"},"modified":"2026-03-23T01:57:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T01:57:06","slug":"fela-kuti-makes-history-as-first-african-artist-to-receive-grammy-lifetime-achievement-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=215626","title":{"rendered":"Fela Kuti Makes History as First African Artist to Receive Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fela Kuti has become the first African artist to receive the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. At the 2026 ceremony, Femi, Yeni, Shalewa, and Kunle Kuti accepted the honour on his behalf. The Recording Academy recognised the Afrobeat pioneer\u2019s global legacy alongside fellow honorees Whitney Houston and Chaka Khan&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bellanaija.com\/2026\/02\/fela-kuti-grammy-lifetime-achievement\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fela Kuti has become the first African artist to receive the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215626-fela-kuti-makes-history-as-first-african-artist-to-receive-grammy-lifetime-achievement-award.jpg",1000,600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215626-fela-kuti-makes-history-as-first-african-artist-to-receive-grammy-lifetime-achievement-award-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215626-fela-kuti-makes-history-as-first-african-artist-to-receive-grammy-lifetime-achievement-award-300x180.jpg",300,180,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215626-fela-kuti-makes-history-as-first-african-artist-to-receive-grammy-lifetime-achievement-award-768x461.jpg",640,384,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215626-fela-kuti-makes-history-as-first-african-artist-to-receive-grammy-lifetime-achievement-award.jpg",640,384,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215626-fela-kuti-makes-history-as-first-african-artist-to-receive-grammy-lifetime-achievement-award.jpg",1000,600,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215626-fela-kuti-makes-history-as-first-african-artist-to-receive-grammy-lifetime-achievement-award.jpg",1000,600,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215626-fela-kuti-makes-history-as-first-african-artist-to-receive-grammy-lifetime-achievement-award.jpg",1000,600,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215626-fela-kuti-makes-history-as-first-african-artist-to-receive-grammy-lifetime-achievement-award-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215626-fela-kuti-makes-history-as-first-african-artist-to-receive-grammy-lifetime-achievement-award-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/215627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}