Award winning singer, Temilade Ogeniyi popularly known as Tems has made history to become the first female Nigerian Afrobeats artiste to win an award at the just concluded BET Awards.
The singer who keeps making Nigerians proud bagged two awards at the 2022 Bet Award which was held on Sunday, June 26th.
Tems became the first female Nigerian artiste to win the best International Act, thereby beating Fireboy DML, Dave, Major League and others to clinch the award.
Adding to her feathers, 27 year old Tems also took home the award for Best Collaboration from Wizkid’s song “Essence” which features her and Justin Bieber.
This wasn’t just a big night for Tems alone but for Nigerian artistes as well as YBNL sensational singer, Fireboy also took centre stage with his incredible performance at the event.
While receiving the award, the lovely who also bagged an award with Wizkid for their global hit track, “Essence”, gave a motivational speech to women worldwide on how they shouldn’t give up on their dreams.
“Thank you so much for this, thank you so much. It’s an honour… I mean, this is my first award show that I’m winning something and I just want to use this as an opportunity to speak to every single young, old, whatever, every single woman watching this, every single girl watching this at home. Where I’m from, things like this don’t happen,” she said.
Watch her receive her award:
Big Tems ❤️❤️❤️❤️ pic.twitter.com/UHuWIXB8pk
— YabaLeftOnline (@yabaleftonline) June 27, 2022
Recall, Tems had made history as the first female singer to reach number one on the Hot 100.
American Twitter music chart, Chart Data took to Twitter to share the good news of the singer’s win.
Tems was crowned the only female Nigerian artist in history to reach number 1 on the Hot 100. She joins Wizkid who achieved the great feat in 2016.
“temsbaby and @wizkidayo are the only Nigerian artists in history to reach #1 on the Hot 100”.
“@temsbaby becomes the first Nigerian artist in history to debut at #1 on the Hot 100”.
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