KEHINDE FAJOBI
Nigerian singer, Temilade Openiyi, popularly known as Tems has won the 2022 BET Awards for Best International Act as well as Best Collaboration for “Essence” (Wizkid ft Tems).
The awards ceremony was held at the Microsoft Theatre, Los Angeles, California in the early hours on Monday June 27.
Tems is best known for her feature on Wizkid’s global hit single “Essence” which earned her a Grammy awards nomination.
The Best International Act category featured artistes like Fireboy DML (Nigeria), Fally Ipupa (Congo DR), Little Simz (UK), Dinos (France), Major League Djz (South Africa), Dave (UK), Ludmilla (Brazil), and Tayc (France).
In her acceptance speech, she said: “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.”
Singers Fireboy DML and Pheelz also performed at the award ceremony.
The BET Awards was established in 2001 by the Black Entertainment Television (BET) network to celebrate African Americans in entertainment and sports.