Niger­ian artist Bur­na Boy heat­ed up the stage and au­di­ence at Ply­mouth Recre­ation Ground, To­ba­go, on Thurs­day, de­spite tor­ren­tial rain­fall dur­ing his en­tire per­for­mance at the To­ba­go Mu­sic, Arts and Cul­ture Fes­ti­val (TOMAC).

The 27-year-old mul­ti-Gram­my Award win­ner came on stage around 1.30 am as the head­line act and gave the pa­trons what they want­ed de­spite the heavy show­ers.

Ear­li­er, pa­trons start­ed trick­ling in around 6 pm in a bid to get good spots in front of the stage and even get a rare park­ing spot in the near­by com­mu­ni­ty. For­tu­nate­ly, many were pre­pared with their um­brel­las fol­low­ing an Or­ange-lev­el weath­er alert is­sued by the Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Of­fice.

Pa­trons had a good time danc­ing to mu­sic pro­vid­ed by a disc jock­ey un­til 9.30, when a band start­ed the show go­ing.

Dressed in an or­ange shirt, To­ba­go’s vet­er­an so­ca star Shur­wayne Win­ches­ter leapt on stage and dished out a few of his hits for the ex­cit­ed pa­trons.

Nailah Black­man fol­lowed short­ly af­ter, dressed in a trans­par­ent out­fit and the short­est of shorts. She daz­zled pa­trons not on­ly with her tal­ent­ed voice but her amaz­ing physique.

Fol­low­ing Black­man’s per­for­mance, the rains start­ed pour­ing, thun­der cracked and light­ning lit up the sky. How­ev­er, the crowd start­ed chant­i­ng for Bur­na Boy, “Bur­na, Bur­na, Bur­na.”

They were then giv­en the ec­sta­t­ic news that the star of the evening would be on stage soon.

In­stru­ments and equip­ment were moved around in the driz­zle to make way for Bur­na Boy.

How­ev­er, the del­uge con­tin­ued and the pa­trons en­dured with mu­sic from DJ Lam­bo. When the down­pours start­ed to drench all the ladies who had spent hours get­ting ready for the event, they chant­i­ng once again for Bur­na.

Not let­ting the weath­er dis­ap­point his fans, Bur­na Boy came on stage in a rain suit and over­flowed his vi­brance and tal­ent in­to the crowd, who lat­er left drenched but sat­is­fied. Rain or no rain, it was not a show or ex­pe­ri­ence to be missed.

Who is Bur­na Boy?

Dami­ni Ebunoluwa Ogu­lu, known pro­fes­sion­al­ly as Bur­na Boy, won Best In­ter­na­tion­al Act at the 2019 BET Awards and was an­nounced as an Ap­ple Mu­sic Up Next artist.

His fourth stu­dio al­bum, African Gi­ant, was re­leased in Ju­ly 2019 and won Al­bum of the Year at the 2019 All Africa Mu­sic Awards and was nom­i­nat­ed for Best World Mu­sic Al­bum at the 62nd An­nu­al Gram­my Awards. He was award­ed the African Artist of the year at the 2020 VG­MAs.

Bur­na Boy re­leased his fifth stu­dio al­bum, Twice as Tall, in Au­gust 2020, which was nom­i­nat­ed for the same cat­e­go­ry at the 63 An­nu­al Gram­my Awards, mak­ing him the first Niger­ian artist with back-to-back nom­i­na­tions at the Gram­mys.

In 2021, Twice as Tall won the Best World Mu­sic Al­bum at the 63rd An­nu­al Gram­my Awards.

In Ju­ly 2022, Bur­na Boy re­leased his sixth stu­dio al­bum, Love, Dami­ni which al­so be­came the high­est de­but of an African al­bum on Bill­board, Nether­lands, the Unit­ed King­dom and France.

In Oc­to­ber, Bur­na Boy was giv­en the award of Mem­ber of the Or­der of the Fed­er­al Re­pub­lic for his achieve­ments in mu­sic.