Interesting Facts about Singer Burna Boy’s Mother, Bose Ogulu

The Nigeria Music star and the Grammy-award-winning artist, Burna Boy’s mother, Bose Ogulu is a Nigerian academic, businesswoman and manager. She manages her son Burna Boy’s musical career and thus is also known as Mama Burna.

Bose Ogulu, is the Nigerian music critic Benson Idonije’s daughter, she was the manager of the late Music Legend, Fela Kuti who passed in 1997. She had a Bachelor degree in Arts in Foreign Languages and a Master of Arts in translation from the University of Port Harcourt

However, she had a successful career as a translator for the Federation of West African Chambers of Commerce. She is fluent in English, French, German, Italian, and Yoruba. She then ran a language school called Language Bridges, where she organized cultural immersion trips for over 1,800 young people.

Ogulu manages the musical careers of her son Damini, who performs as Burna Boy and daughter Nissi, who performs under her own name. She managed Burna Boy until 2014 and then became his manager again from 2017 onwards, gaining the nickname Mama Burna.

She has collected awards for her son Burna Boy at various events, including the All Africa Music Awards, The Headies and the MTV Europe Music Award. When she heard that Burna Boy had won the 2019 MTV award for Best African Act, she interrupted his show to tell him.

Ogulu represented the Grammy-award-winning When Burna Boy won four prizes at the 2018 Soundcity MVP Awards Festival and caused a social media sensation by saying “Expect more madness”.

At the 2019 BET Awards in California, Ogulu stood in for her son to collect the award for Best International Act and gave a speech reminding African-Americans to remember “you were Africans before you became anything else” which resulted in a standing ovation.

Interesting facts about Mama Burna(Bose Ogulu)

• Bose Ogulu is a Nigerian academic, businesswoman and manager
• She manages her son Burna Boy’s musical career and thus is also known as Mama Burna.
• She was the manager of the late Music Legend, Fela Kuti who passed in 1997
• She had a Bachelor degree in Arts in Foreign Languages and a Master of Arts in translation from the University of Port Harcourt
• She had a successful career as a translator for the Federation of West African Chambers of Commerce.
• She is fluent in English, French, German, Italian, and Yoruba. She then ran a language school called Language Bridges, where she organized cultural immersion trips for over 1,800 young people.
• She managed Burna Boy until 2014 and then became his manager again from 2017 onwards
• She has won several notable awards for her son Burna Boy
• Bose Ogulu is the founder & CEO of Spaceship Collective, the holding company to Spaceship Records (an entertainment label) and Spaceship Publishing (a publishing outfit).
• She has been married to Samuel Ogulu for 30 years, they are blessed with three children, Damini, Ronami, and Nissi Ogulu.