{"id":1206974,"date":"2022-09-19T10:44:45","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T10:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/19\/burna-boy-talks-origin-of-his-stage-name-music-journey-on-jimmy-fallons-show\/"},"modified":"2022-09-19T10:44:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T10:44:45","slug":"burna-boy-talks-origin-of-his-stage-name-music-journey-on-jimmy-fallons-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/19\/burna-boy-talks-origin-of-his-stage-name-music-journey-on-jimmy-fallons-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Burna Boy talks origin of his stage name, music journey on Jimmy Fallon&#8217;s show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Untitled-2-3-1024x576.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>Burna Boy in the past week was hosted on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Afrobeats star opened up on his music journey and working with artistes like Ed Sheeran and others for his new album \u2018Love Damini\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>He also opened up on how he came by his stage name Burna Boy. The singer noted that he used to draw comic characters like Spiderman and others.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But, unlike other kids growing up he wanted to be his own superhero and thus he drew one representing him but the name he could think of to give the character was Burna Boy.<\/p>\n<p>Burna Boy Later performed his hit song off \u2018Love, Damini\u2019 album \u2018Last Last\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the interview below:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"yr870Q1GwKI\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Burna Boy Teaches Jimmy His Iconic Afro Moonwalk Dance Move | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yr870Q1GwKI?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"UgDlIYtcDvc\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Burna Boy: Last Last | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UgDlIYtcDvc?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/burna-boy-talks-origin-of-his-stage-name-music-journey-on-jimmy-fallons-show\/\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burna Boy in the past week was hosted on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The Nigerian Afrobeats star opened up on his music journey and working with artistes like Ed Sheeran and others for his new album \u2018Love Damini\u2019. He also opened up on how he came by his stage name Burna Boy. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1206975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[449,450,25954,18550,3135,1484,9765,2210,150,3016],"class_list":["post-1206974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-boy","tag-burna","tag-fallons","tag-jimmy","tag-journey","tag-music","tag-origin","tag-show","tag-stage","tag-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1206974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1206974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1206974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1206974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}