Burna Boy as Nigerian musicians’ gutters-to-Grammy story, by Festus Adedayo
When he voiced his ambition to be a standup comedian, Jewish American Samuel Levenson’s mother was aghast. For a boy who grew up in a large Jewish immigrant family in New York’s Brooklyn, Madam Levenson’s disdain for standup comedy as a profession was understandable. “My son, you mean, you stand, you talk and people laugh?” the mother demanded incredulously, breaking…
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