Nigerian act, Temilade Openiyi, popularly known Tems, has emerged winner of the Best International Act at the BET Awards 2022, joining notable Nigerian singers like Davido, Wizkid and Burna Boy in clinching the prestigious BET award.
Tems who is a singer, songwriter and record producer was nominated alongside other acts like Fireboy (Nigeria), Dave (UK), Dinos (France), Fally Ipupa (Congo), Little Simz (UK), Ludmilla (Brazil), Major League Djz (SA) , and Tayc from (France)
This was the second award Tems received on the night as she received the best song award on behalf of colleagues, Wizkid and Justin Bieber for hit song "ESSENCE".
Upon receiving her award, Tems gave a brief speech dedicating it to young women striving to one day accomplish their dreams.
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.”
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