BET Awards nominates Tems for the Viewers’ Choice: Best New International Act
Nigerian singer, songwriter, and record producer, Temilade Openiyi, professionally known as Tems has been nominated by the BET Awards for the Best New International Act.
Nigerian singer, songwriter, and record producer, Temilade Openiyi, professionally known as Tems has been nominated by the BET Awards for the Viewers’ Choice: Best New International Act.
The Nigerian singer was nominated alongside other international artists like Arlo Parks and Bree Runway from the United Kingdom, Bramsito and Ronisia from France, Elaine from South Africa, and MC Dricka from brazil.
The BET Award for Viewer’s Choice Award is determined by the fans. The all-time winner in this category is Lil Wayne with four wins. Drake is the most nominated artist with thirteen nominations.
The Media company took their Twitter account to announce the nominations for the Viewers’ choice awards, urging fans to cast their vote.
We are thrilled to announce this year’s Viewer’s Choice: Best New International Act Nominees. Go to @BET_INTL to cast your vote. @arloparks (UK)@BramsitoB7 (France)@breerunway (UK)
Elaine (SA)@mcdricka13 (Brazil)@ronisia_mds (France)@temsbaby (Nigeria)#BETAwards pic.twitter.com/JMUMatr26m— BET Africa (@BET_Africa) June 7, 2021
According to Wikipedia Tems started her music career in 2018 when she recorded Mr. Rebel a song of her own composition. In August 2019, Tems released the single Try Me“. It became a major hit and currently has over 5.6 million views on YouTube. In 2020.
DJ Edu chose her as one of “ten artists to watch” that year. She was recruited that year by American singer Khalid to join him and fellow Nigerian Davido on an Afrobeats remix of Know Your Worth.
Her single Damages from her For Broken Ears EP became another follow-up hit to Try Me peaking at number 6 on the newly launched “TurnTable Top 50” (a Nigerian chart) and garnering 2.7 million views on YouTube.
In 2020, her collaboration with Wizkid on their song Essence earned her a number one spot on BBC 1Xtra Airplay Chart as of 30 January 2021.
In December 2020, Tems and fellow Nigerian artist Omah Lay were arrested in Uganda while there for a live performance for violating COVID-19 safety laws. They were later released and the charges were dropped.
