The stars were out at Sunday’s NBA All-Star game in Salt Lake City, Utah – from basketball legends LeBron James and Giannis Antetokounmpo, to Nigerian musical titans Burna Boy, Tems, and Rema.

The trio performed an Afrobeats-packed halftime show, a sign that the genre’s global rise is continuing into 2023.

Grammy-winning Burna Boy was first to perform, telling the crowd, “I’m about to take you on a journey through Africa without even going on a plane.”

For Tems, it caps off a whirlwind month, as she recently made history by being the first Nigerian artist to get an Oscar nomination, for her work on Rihanna’s “Lift Me Up” – a song from “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” She also won her first Grammy on February 5 for her collaboration with Drake and Future on “Wait For U.”

Meanwhile, musician, rapper, and singer Rema is enjoying chart-topping success with his hit “Calm Down,” featuring Selena Gomez.

“Nigeria is a football-dominated, soccer-dominated country,” Burna Boy said in a video posted on Monday by the NBA All-Star Twitter account. “But at the same time, we still have some of the best basketball players from here.”

"هذا حلم"، أضاف في مقطع آخر. "هذا مذهل. كنت أحلم باللعب في الدوري الاميركي للمحترفين عندما كنت طفلا ، لكن كما تعلم ، كان علي أن أؤدي في الدوري الاميركي للمحترفين [مباراة كل النجوم] ، لذلك أعتقد أنني نجحت في كلتا الحالتين ".