Nigerian Musician IBK Spaceshipboi’s Song featured in 61st Grammy Awards Commercial ??

The Grammys has been known to celebrate artistic excellence in the music industry, so the ad campaigns often depict the recording academy’s eccentric taste in music, coupled with its knack for something out of the ordinary.

In anticipation of its 61^st awards show, the recording academy released a #LetsHearIt ad on its Instagram account on Friday and the 27 seconds advert featured music from Nigerian musician IBK Spaceshipboi.

IBK Spaceshipboi reposted the video and shared the good news via Instagram where he wrote:

 

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Music by: IBK SPACESHIPBOI. ??????? I remember my first time pushing the “on” button to watch American television. I am a sucker for commercials so I watched the ads religiously so much so that my girl friend at the time would yell from the living room “they are showing your commercials oh!”. I told myself “1 day, you will create music that will be on one of these commercials”. So I started paying attention to the genres of music that thrived in that industry and became inspired to create 6 pieces at the time. Fast forward 2 years later, I get a call from the awesome team at @sostereomusic saying the Grammy’s would love to use 1 of my pieces for the 2019 commercial and would love if you could spruce it up abit. So spruce it I did ? and the rest is good history. From thought to reality, my music now plays on a Grammy commercial on American television. This Warri boy from Nigeria; God writes the story, we just act it out ? #GRAMMYs #goodmusic #music #commercial #nominations #grammy2019 #greatness #rock #award #predestined #excellence #blackexcellence #dreamscometrue #yourdreamsarevalid #producer #naijatotheworld #anythingispossible #tvcommerials #theGRAMMYs #GRAMMYcommercial #african #bestband #musicflow #themusicexplorer #live #LetsHearIt

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