Blitz the Ambassador

 

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

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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

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Blitz the Ambadassor na 2014

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]

Blitz The Ambassador na 2019

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

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  • 2009: stereotype
  • 2011: Obodo Sun
  • 2014: Afropolitan Dreams
  • 2016: Diasporadical

Albums egwu egwu

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  • 2019: Olili ozu nke Kojo

EPs

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  • 2004: Mkpụrụ obi nnupụisi
  • 2005: Amamihe ugboro abụọ
  • 2009: StereoLive
  • 2013: Ọkụ na-ekpo ọkụ

Ihe nkiri eji eme ihe

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  • 2018: Olili ozu nke Kojo [12] [13]
  • 2020: Black Bụ Eze [14]
  • 2023: Agba Purple

Ihe nkiri dị mkpirikpi

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  • 2011: Obodo Sun
  • 2016: Diasporadical Trilogia

Igwe onyonyo

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  • 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

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Year Award Category Work Result Templeeti:Tooltip
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

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  1. ↑ Sam Blitz Bazawule. IMDb. Retrieved on 26 December 2018.
  2. ↑ Editorial (4 March 2019). Whitney Biennial. Two Coats of Paint.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ About Blitz The Ambassador. Archived from the original on 8 March 2011. Retrieved on 22 February 2010.
  5. ↑ Interview: Blitz the Ambassador, 2008. Archived from the original on 16 February 2010. Retrieved on 22 February 2010.
  6. ↑ Itzkoff. "Blitz Bazawule Is Building Bridges Between Worlds", The New York Times, June 26, 2022. Retrieved on September 24, 2023.
  7. ↑ 'The Burial Of Kojo' Makes History As Ghana's First Golden Globes Entry (en-US). Essence. Retrieved on 13 February 2020.
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. ↑ Blitz the Ambassador Named 2020 Guggenheim Fellow (en). OkayAfrica (9 April 2020). Retrieved on 8 June 2021.
  10. ↑ John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Blitz Bazawule (en-US). Retrieved on 8 June 2021.
  11. ↑ Warner Bros. Lands ‘Black Samurai’ Movie From ‘The Color Purple’ Director Blitz Bazawule (EXCLUSIVE). Variety.
  12. ↑ Ramos (15 February 2019). Ava DuVernay's ARRAY Acquires Surreal Drama 'The Burial Of Kojo'. Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved on 19 February 2019.
  13. ↑ Business - NYTimes.com. markets.on.nytimes.com. Retrieved on 22 March 2019.
  14. ↑ Desta (29 June 2020). Beyoncé "Felt Overwhelmed" Making New Visual Album, Black Is King. Vanity Fair. Retrieved on 23 July 2020.
  15. ↑ 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.
  16. ↑ Gbenga (27 October 2019). AMAA 2019: Here are all the winners at the 15th edition of award. Pulse NG. Retrieved on 29 October 2019.
  17. ↑ 2019 Edition: Awards. Luxor African Film Festival. Retrieved on September 23, 2023.
  18. ↑ 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.
  19. ↑ Blitz Bazawule: Awards and Nominations (en-US). The Black Reel Awards. Retrieved on September 23, 2023.
  20. ↑ 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. ↑ 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.
  22. ↑ Neglia (2024-01-09). The 2023 Houston Film Critics Society (HFCS) Nominations (en-US). Next Best Picture. Retrieved on 2024-01-17.
  23. ↑ 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.

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