Femi Kuti Loses Grammy Award to Malian Band 'Tinariwen'

Afrobeat Maestro Femi Anikulapo kuti has lost this year's grammy award. Femi who got nominated for the third time through his Africa for Africa LP lost the highly coveted award to Tinariwen, a band of Tuareg-Berber musicians from the Sahara Desert region of northern Mali.
Tinariwen won the newly-combined categories of the grammys . The world music album category had been previously been divided into traditional and contemporary categories.

Tinariwen

Other Nominees in the category include Latin/Roots music band AfroCubism, South African male choral group Ladysmith Black Mambazo.