Fuse ODG and Ed Sheeran
Fuse ODG is basking in the glory of his Grammy Award triumph for contributing to Ed Sheeran’s ‘Divide’ album which won best pop vocal album at the 2018 Grammy Awards over the weekend.
The UK-based Ghanaian Afro-pop singer won the award for co-writing Ed Sheeran’s ‘Divide’ album.
The album which is the third studio album by Ed Sheeran was released on March 3, 2017.
He sang on one of the most popular songs on the album titled ‘Bibiaa Be Ye Yie’, which was written when Ed Sheeran came to Ghana in 2016 and was produced by Tema-based Ghanaian sound engineer, Killbeatz.
He took to micro-blog Twitter to express his delight, saying, “…man’s a Grammy Award Winning Songwriter now. Thanks Ed for coming to Ghana lol..what an honour!!”.
Fuse has topped charts all over the United Kingdom and won other international awards, including the Music of Black Origin (MOBO) and African Musik Magazine Awards.
Born Nana Richard Abiona, he is better known by his stage name Fuse ODG. He is described as an English recording artiste of Ghanaian descent.
He is best known for his 2013 single ‘Antenna’, which peaked at number seven on the UK Singles Chart, and for featuring in Major Lazer’s ‘Light It Up (Remix)’ which also peaked at number seven on the UK Singles Chart.
Born in London and raised in Ghana, Fuse returned to London for his secondary education, where he attended the Archbishop Lanfranc School, Croydon. He grew up in Mitcham, South London.