With more than 19 million monthly listeners on Spotify, not to mention over 300 million streams of his song “Last Last” alone, Nigeria’s Burna Boy—née Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu—is by all counts a major international success. In July, the Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and record producer became the first African artist to headline a US stadium concert when he drew more than 40,000 fans to New York’s Citi Field to celebrate his 32nd birthday. But that wasn’t an isolated incident; he’s packing massive venues around the world on his latest Stadium Tour, sonically reinforced by Solotech, who is supplying a DiGiCo Quantum338 and two Quantum7 mixing consoles, one of which is loaded with a DMI-KLANG module for immersive in-ear monitor mixing.
Burna Boy doesn’t do anything on a small scale, evidenced by the swarm of musicians and singers that surround him onstage. “Burna’s core band is called the Outsiders; it includes a drummer, bassist, guitarist, two keyboardists, and a...
