BURNA BOY’S MANAGER BOSE OGULU TO BE HONOURED AT ARTIST & MANAGER AWARDS 2022

BURNA BOY’S MANAGER, BOSE OGULU TO BE HONOURED AT ARTIST & MANAGER AWARDS 2022.

Co-founder of Spaceship Collective — a combination of divisions in recorded music and music publishing, and also a foundation for other African artists to maintain greater control and ownership of their repertoire — and long-time manager of Burna Boy, Bose Ogulu, is to be honoured by the Featured Artists Coalition (FAC) and Music Managers Forum (MMF) at the Artist and Manager Awards.

The awards which will take place at London’s Bloomsbury Big Top on November 17, 2022, celebrate individuals for their achievements as pioneers, innovators and entrepreneurs.

With deep roots in the music scene of Lagos, and overseeing her son’s gradual rise to global stardom — including his breakthrough album ‘African Giant‘ in 2019, the Grammy-winning ‘Twice As Tall‘ in 2020 which she co-executive produced, and this year’s UK #2 latest release, ‘Love, Damini‘ containing the massive hit single ‘Last Last‘, which recently hit 300 million global streams while ‘For My Hand‘ featuring British singer, Ed Sheeran hit 150 million global streams, making the dexterous and eternally hardworking Bose Ogulu, a unanimous choice for Manager of the Year (sponsored by YouTube Music)

Chief executive, Music Managers Forum (MMF), Annabella Coldrick said: “Everyone at the MMF would like to congratulate Bose on her award for Manager of the Year, and we look forward to celebrating with her on November 17th. Bose’s boundary-breaking and artist-led approach to business has undoubtedly helped Burna Boy develop into a genuinely global talent, while Spaceship Collective and its ethos of empowerment epitomises her positive impact on a new generation of artists. It is an African success story, but with a major foot in the UK — and we felt it important to recognise the success of such a prominent groundbreaking manager.

”Bose’s boundary-breaking and artist-led approach to business has undoubtedly helped Burna Boy develop into a genuinely global talent. Alongside Bose, Carl Cox, producer label owner, headlining DJ and broadcaster will be the recipient of the Pioneproducer Award (sponsored by TikTok); and
the Artist & Manager Awards will recognise the achievements of the show producers and director behind ABBA Voyage, Svana Gisla, Ludvig Andersson and Baillie Walsh for the Innovation Award (sponsored by Utopia).