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Update: Tyla didnt end up gettingnominatedfor the 2025 ceremony.
Thank you to the Recording Academy for this category, the visibly overwhelmed singer said in her acceptance speech.
The Grammys were widely, and correctly, praised for introducing Best African Music Performance.
But Tyla didnt quite fit in R&B, either.
Her songs are built around percussive amapiano beats, refashioned from ten-minute dance tracks into digestible hits.
So what are the Grammys supposed to do with an album like that?
(Victoria Monets Motown-indebtedJaguar IIwon this years R&B trophy, while SZAs adventurousSOSclinched in Progressive.)
Yet that solution still wouldnt have recognized Tylas South African influence.
But thats impossible when the Academy continues to be reactive, rather than proactive, about global music.
The issue extends beyond African music.
More than six years after BTS earned their first American No.
