Tyla won Best African Music Performance at the 2026 Grammys for “Push 2 Start.” The South African singer became the category’s first two-time winner.
“Push 2 Start” followed Tyla’s earlier victory for “Water,” which won the inaugural Best African Music Performance Grammy in 2024. Her success helped establish the category as a major platform for African artists and recordings that use distinctive regional rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic traditions.
Tyla’s music is strongly associated with amapiano, a South African style that developed in the townships of Gauteng during the 2010s. Amapiano commonly combines deep bass, log-drum percussion, piano-led motifs, and relaxed dance tempos. Tyla’s pop-oriented approach has helped bring those sounds to a worldwide audience.
The 2026 nominees also included Burna Boy, Davido featuring Omah Lay, Eddy Kenzo with Mehran Matin, and Ayra Starr featuring Wizkid. The award honors a track or single performance, so the winning answer is the artist, Tyla, rather than the song title.