First gringo to perform on the Skyline stage of The Town 2025, Nigerian artist brought repertoire with more recent songs
With a day dominated by trap artists, especially the Skyline stage singers, Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulubetter known as Burna Boybrought a freshness to The Town With their works that walk through Afrobeat, Reggae and R&B. Precisely this range of music marries a lot with a show, especially with a complete band with backing vocals, trumpet, saxophone, drums and drums.
Although most of the public is waiting for the sensations of Trap Travis Scott and Don Toliver (And that was evident), the Nigerian singer was not intimidated and lavished charisma throughout his setlist, which was about 1 hours long. At certain times, he interacted directly with the crowd, asked to open wheels, jump and move as much as possible, but caused some strangeness in the final stretch, when he asked people, “men, women and any other in the middle”To remove the shirts and swing in the air.
As for the setlist, the most faithful fans may have been disappointed by the artist’s choice not to include early work songs, such as Life – Leaving an impact for eternity (2013), On a spacery (2015) and Redemption (2016).
Although it does not focus so much on the older work on the setlist, Burna Boy showed great artistic refinement with the recent No Sign of Weaknessstudio album released in July 2025, and its other two latest albums, I Told Them… (2023) and Love, Damini (2022).
Another prominent element of the presentation of Burna Boy node The Town It was his stage presence, which dialogues and synchronizes very well with the dancing rhythm of many of his works. Perhaps, it had been more interesting if he were the artist among the shows of Don Toliver (20:30) and Travis Scott (11:15 pm), which would give a good break between these other two artists.
In this celebration of African music and a career of over 10 years, Damini He managed to translate to the Brazilian audience his songs, especially with the elements of Afrobeat and Reggae, and the spirit of a music festival.
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