Celebrated Nigerian music icon, Fireboy DML on Wednesday night broke down in tears over his latest global achievement.
This follows his performance on stage with Grammy award winner, Ed Sheeran to their hit song ‘Peru’.
The show was held at Wembley Stadium in London, which has about 90,000 capacity.
The singer, in the viral video, was seemingly overwhelmed with emotions.
He is the first afrobeat act to perform at the iconic Wembley stadium.
‘Peru’ was dropped in July 2021 which hit the global waves and caught the attention of Ed Sheeran.
The ‘Bad Habit’ hitmake jumped on the remix of the song.
Peru’ topped the Billboard Afroabeats Song for a few weeks. Currently, it is at number 4.
Afrobeats is taking center stage with Nigerian musicians getting global recognition.
Just a few days ago Tems won two awards at the BET Award alongside Wizkid.
In 2022 alone, the likes of Wizkid, Burna Boy, Davido, Fireboy, Ckay and Tems have all collaborated with global talents and performed to a massive crowd in other countries.
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