Nigerian Afrobeats singer, Divine Ikubor, popularly generally known as Rema, has been featured within the 2025 TIME100 Subsequent listing which spotlights the world’s most influential rising stars.
The listing revealed on Tuesday options individuals from an array of industries, from motion pictures and music to sports activities and science to politics and philanthropy.
Rema is the one African artist honoured this 12 months. His profile was written by the legendary musician, Angélique Kidjo.
“The younger Nigerian famous person has completed a lot: ‘Calm Down’ has joined the billion-streams membership twice over,” Kidjo famous.
“Rema is the embodiment of the worldwide success of Afrobeats. Due to artists like him, African music is on the forefront of world tradition,” the a number of Grammy-winner added.
World music powerhouses like Teyana Taylor and GloRilla are additionally among the many 100 rising leaders and entertainers who made the reduce for the TIME100 Subsequent listing.
