Blitz the Ambassador
Samuel Bazawule (akpa 19 ụgbọ 1982), onye ama ama dị ka Blitz Bazawule na Blitz onye ọnọdụ anya, bụ onye na-ese ihe nkiri Ghana, onye ode akwụkwọ, onye na-ese ihe, onye rapper, onye na-agụ abụ, na onye na-edekọ ihe. [1] [2]
[3]Ọ bụrụ ọrụ ya na-afọ 2000, na- dike ọba studio aanọ ma na-enye ya ihe nrite Vilcek maka nkwa okike na egwu ọgbara ọhụrụ. Blitz mere m mbụ mbụ dị ka onye na- maka ihe nkiri na The Burial of Kojo (2018), wee na-ahụ ihe nkiri egwu Black Is King (2020) n'ụdị Beyoncé, na-anata nhọpụta mbụ Grammy Award . Ọ duziri ihe nkiri nkiri egwu The Color Purple (2023). [1] [2] Na 2024 Ụdị dị iche iche depụtara ya dị ka otu n'ime "ndị nduzi 10 ga-ekiri maka 2024".
Ndụ mbido
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]Samuel Bazawule egwuregwu na Accra, Ghana, na 19 1982. Ọ bụ nwa nke atọ n'ime ụmụ anọ wee gaa ụlọ akwụkwọ Achimota . Mgbe ọ nọ n'akwụkwọ, ọ chị nri nrite maka ihe osise anya ya, ma emesịa ìgwè inwe na egwu hip-hop mgbe ọ nụrụ nwanne ya nwoke nkata ya na-egwu album Onye iro Ọha Ọ na-ewe Mba nke Ọtụtụ ugboro. nde mmadụ ijide anyị azụ . N'ịtụka n'ịhụnanya o nwere maka ihe mere eme na nleba anya n'ọha mmadụ, Bazawule ọrịa ime achọpụta na ide abụ ndị nwere ihe mere eme bụ ndị o ji onye ama n na akwụkwọ akwụkwọ. [4]
Ọrụ
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]Mgbe ọ ọmụmụ akwụkwọ na Achimota School na 2000, Bazawule bụ onye Ghanaian Ace na-ahụ Hammer nke echiche ikpeazụ. A gwara Blitz ka ọ bịa na studio n'echi ya mgbe ọ masịrị Hammer na nkà ya. O de njikere na egwu "Deeba" wee nweta ihe nrite maka onye nka kacha mma na 2000 Ghana Music Awards. [1] Na 2001, Blitz kwagara United States ka akwụkwọ akwụkwọ na Kent State University dị na Ohio, ebe ọ akwụkwọ akwụkwọ na nzere bachelọ na ịzụ ahịa. [2] N'afọ ndị ahụ, ọ bụ n'ọtụtụ ihe nkiri ndụ na oghere maka ndị rapper dị ka Rakim . [3] Na 2004 o akara ya album Soul Rebel, n'okpuru moniker Blitz [5]
Mgbe ọ akwụkwọ akwụkwọ, Blitz kwagara New York City. N'ebe ahụ, o dekọrọ ọba ọzọ, Double Consciousness (2005), [1] na nso nso a ọkụ Stereotype . Album ahụ na-esite na n'ụdị egwu ya dị iche iche. Iji nweta dị ndụ ọ na-achọ, o hiwere otu egwu, The Embassy Ensemble, wee ndị nka djembe nke ya. [2] O hibere akara, Embassy MVMT, ma jiji ya na atumatu obodo Roots Okayplayer .
N'ọgwụ 2009, a mgbaàmà Blitz onye ụdị anya dị ka otu "50 Emerging Artists" nke akwụkwọ Beyond Race . [1] Na 2015, Blitz ihe nrite Vilcek maka nkwa okike na egwu ọgbara ọhụrụ. [2] [3] N'afọ 2011, o Ada "Feelin' High" na onye ọbẹ abụ French Ben Mazue, na 2012, ndị ọrụ ụgbọ mmiri French C2C taịn ya na album Tetra . Blitz na Prọfesọ ALI na-arụkọ ọrụ ugboro ugboro na-egosi na "Ihe Fall Apart" yana Raekwon na 2011, [4] na remix "Things Still Fall Apart" na 2012, na na egwu ya "The Mic Shall Keta nwere" mmetụta . album "XFactor" na 2015. [5] [6] Na 2016 o edi album studio ya pụta Diasporadical na ihe nkiri dị isi Diasporadical Trilogia, triptych na ndị nduzi na Accra, New York City na Salvador, Bahia [6]
Na 2018, Blitz duziri ma dee ihe nkiri mbụ bụ The Burial of Kojo, bụ nke nke ndị na-eme ihe nkiri Ama K. Abebrese, Joseph Otsiman, Joyce Anima Misa Amoah na Cynthia Dankwa. [1] [2] Ava DuVernay ihe nkiri a na-eme ihe nkiri nọọrọ onwe ya Array maka ihe nkiri na fim Netflix, wee malite ya na mmemme ihe nkiri 2018 Urban World na New York. [3] Ọ natara nhọpụta akwụkwọ na 15th Africa Movie Academy Awards, na-emeri maka ihe nkiri nkiri nke mbụ site n'aka onye nduzi, wee nweta ihe nrite Grand Nile na Luxor African Film Festival .
N'afọ 2019, Blitz bụ otu n'ime ndị ntụzịaka akarara na album visual Beyoncé The Lion King: The Gift and na ihe nkiri egwu Walt Disney Pictures àmà Black Is King, [1] [2] nke ịcha ya maka Kasị Mma. Ihe nkiri egwu na 63rd Grammy Awards kwa afọ . [3] Blitz gbara egwu na 2019 Whitney Biennial nke Rujeko Hockley na Jane Panetta chepụtara. [4] Blitz bụkwa 2019 Senior TED (ogbako) Fellow, [5] wee guzobe Africa Film Society, otu lekwasịrị anya na ichekwa ihe nkiri Africa ama ama. Ọ bụ onye nnata nke otu n'ime ndị mmekọ Guggenheim maka ụgbọ mmiri nke Ghana [7] [8] [9] [10]
Na 2020, a mara ọkwa na Bazawule atọrọ ka ọ na-eduzi The Color Purple, ihe nkiri ihe nke akwụkwọ Alice Walker nke otu aha na Broadway musical nke Oprah Winfrey akwụkwọ. [1] Winfrey n'onwe ya ihe nkiri ahụ na Quincy Jones, Scott Sanders na Steven Spielberg. [2] Ihe nkiri a bụ Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P. Henson, Colman Domingo na Danielle Brooks. E mmekọrịta ya na United States na 25 Disemba 2023 site na Warner Bros. Pictures . [3] [1] [4] Ihe nkiri ahụ ike ya nhọpụta maka ihe ngosi ihe nkiri Critics' Choice Movie maka ihe osise kacha mma na onyunyo Black Reel maka onye isi sere .
Akwụkwọ mbụ Bazawule, The sent of Burnt Flowers, ka ebipụtara na June 28, 2022. [1] Na 17 Maachị 2022, a mara ọkwa na FX ga-ahụ miniseries nke isii dabere na akwụkwọ ahụ, yana Bazawule na-eduzi ma na- ọgwụgwọ yana Yahya Abdul-Mateen II . [2] na Black Samruai [11]
Albums Studio
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]- 2009: stereotype
- 2011: Obodo Sun
- 2014: Afropolitan Dreams
- 2016: Diasporadical
Albums egwu egwu
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]- 2019: Olili ozu nke Kojo
EPs
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]- 2004: Mkpụrụ obi nnupụisi
- 2005: Amamihe ugboro abụọ
- 2009: StereoLive
- 2013: Ọkụ na-ekpo ọkụ
Ihe nkiri eji eme ihe
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]Ihe nkiri dị mkpirikpi
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]- 2011: Obodo Sun
- 2016: Diasporadical Trilogia
Igwe onyonyo
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]- TBA: Isi nke Okooko osisi [15]
- Blitz Bazawule na nso nso a nwere mpụta mbụ TV directorial na ihe nkiri aha ya bụ Cherish the Day ka a ga-ebido n'afọ na-abịa na OWN ma na-ede ihe ngosi ya ugbu a.
Ihe nrite na nhọpụta
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]Year | Award | Category | Work | Result | Templeeti:Tooltip |
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2019 | Africa Movie Academy Awards | Best First Feature Film by a Director | The Burial of Kojo | Merie | [16] |
Luxor African Film Festival | Grand Nile Prize (Long Narrative) | Merie | [17] | ||
2021 | NAACP Image Awards | Outstanding Directing in a Television Movie or Special | Black is King | Ahọpụtara | [18] |
Grammy Awards | Best Music Film | Ahọpụtara | [19] | ||
Black Reel Awards | Outstanding Television Documentary or Special | Ahọpụtara | [20] | ||
2024 | Critics' Choice Movie Awards | Best Picture | The Color Purple | Ahọpụtara | [21] |
Astra Film Awards | Best Picture | Ahọpụtara | . | ||
Black Reel Awards | Outstanding Director | Ahọpụtara | [21] | ||
Houston Film Critics Society Awards | Best Picture | Ahọpụtara | [22] | ||
NAACP Image Awards | Outstanding Breakthrough Creative (Motion Picture) | Merie | [23] |
Ntụaka
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]- ↑ Sam Blitz Bazawule. IMDb. Retrieved on 26 December 2018.
- ↑ Editorial (4 March 2019). Whitney Biennial. Two Coats of Paint.
- ↑ Vary (January 4, 2024). Variety’s 10 Directors to Watch for 2024: Blitz Bazawule, Cord Jefferson and Anna Kendrick Among Noteworthy Helmers (en). Variety. Retrieved on January 8, 2024.
- ↑ About Blitz The Ambassador. Archived from the original on 8 March 2011. Retrieved on 22 February 2010.
- ↑ Interview: Blitz the Ambassador, 2008. Archived from the original on 16 February 2010. Retrieved on 22 February 2010.
- ↑ Itzkoff. "Blitz Bazawule Is Building Bridges Between Worlds", The New York Times, June 26, 2022. Retrieved on September 24, 2023.
- ↑ 'The Burial Of Kojo' Makes History As Ghana's First Golden Globes Entry (en-US). Essence. Retrieved on 13 February 2020.
- ↑ The Burial Of Kojo: Here is what you need to know about Netflix's next original African movie (en-US). www.pulse.ng (19 February 2019). Retrieved on 13 February 2020.
- ↑ Blitz the Ambassador Named 2020 Guggenheim Fellow (en). OkayAfrica (9 April 2020). Retrieved on 8 June 2021.
- ↑ John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Blitz Bazawule (en-US). Retrieved on 8 June 2021.
- ↑ Warner Bros. Lands ‘Black Samurai’ Movie From ‘The Color Purple’ Director Blitz Bazawule (EXCLUSIVE). Variety.
- ↑ Ramos (15 February 2019). Ava DuVernay's ARRAY Acquires Surreal Drama 'The Burial Of Kojo'. Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved on 19 February 2019.
- ↑ Business - NYTimes.com. markets.on.nytimes.com. Retrieved on 22 March 2019.
- ↑ Desta (29 June 2020). Beyoncé "Felt Overwhelmed" Making New Visual Album, Black Is King. Vanity Fair. Retrieved on 23 July 2020.
- ↑ Kroll (2022-03-17). FX Lands Rights To Blitz Bazawule's 'Scent Of Burnt Flowers' To Develop As Limited Series With Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Attached To Star (en-US). Deadline. Retrieved on 2022-03-19.
- ↑ Gbenga (27 October 2019). AMAA 2019: Here are all the winners at the 15th edition of award. Pulse NG. Retrieved on 29 October 2019.
- ↑ 2019 Edition: Awards. Luxor African Film Festival. Retrieved on September 23, 2023.
- ↑ Davis (2021-02-02). Viola Davis, Tyler Perry and Regina King Up for Entertainer of the Year at 2021 NAACP Image Awards (en-US). Variety. Retrieved on 2021-02-05.
- ↑ Blitz Bazawule: Awards and Nominations (en-US). The Black Reel Awards. Retrieved on September 23, 2023.
- ↑ Black Reel Awards for Television 2021: Plenty of “Love” in the Heart of the Country! (en-US). The Black Reel Awards (2021-06-17). Archived from the original on 2021-06-28. Retrieved on 2021-08-10.
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 Complex (December 15, 2023). Black Reel Awards Nominations: ‘The Color Purple’ And ‘Rustin’ Dominate. Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved on December 16, 2023.
- ↑ Neglia (2024-01-09). The 2023 Houston Film Critics Society (HFCS) Nominations (en-US). Next Best Picture. Retrieved on 2024-01-17.
- ↑ Jackson (March 14, 2024). NAACP Image Awards: Kerry Washington, Jeffrey Wright, Sterling K. Brown and Ryan Michelle Bathé Set as Presenters, Andra Day to Perform. Variety. Retrieved on March 15, 2024.
Njikọ mpụga
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]- Official website
- Sam Blitz Bazawule - IMDb
- Ghanaian rapper Blitz the Ambassador - PRI