Nigeria, Feb. 3 -- There's beauty in sampling. "Love Me, Jeje," initially released in 1997, won a Grammy twenty-eight years later.

PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported that Nigerian singer, songwriter, and record producer Temilade 'Tems' Openiyi won the 67th Grammy Award for Best African Music Performance.

Tems defeated strong contenders with her love song 'Love Me Jeje' to secure the award at Sunday's Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.

Meanwhile, the song's title and its first stanza resonate deeply with music lovers who experienced the Nigerian music scene of the late 1990s and early 2000s.

In 1997, when Nigerian music was still carving a niche on the global stage, U.S.-based Nigerian recording artiste Seyi Sodimu, popularly known as Mr Jej...