Eddy Kenzo is the first Ugandan artist to be nominated for a Grammy award. He is nominated for the song, “Gimme Love,” a collaboration with American musician Matt B.

“I try to use my culture and what I know to sell to the world,” he said.

Kenzo noted that the message of the Luganda-English track, which is nominated in the Best Global Music Performance category, is “all about giving love. Nothing could be better than that,” he said.

For Kenzo, who was orphaned as a child and homeless, the Grammy milestone symbolizes the ultimate journey of triumph over adversity. “Being nominated in Grammy, when I don’t do English, when I don’t try to do that kind of music that is done there and here and be recognized in my own way it’s like crazy. It’s so so so crazy I can’t even express how I feel,”  he explained to Africanews.

Source: Yahoo