Tyla, a South African recording artiste will serve as the first African to host the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards.
The organisers unveiled the host and nominees for the 2025 edition on Thursday, May 15.
The Grammy-winning South African star will host the show, which airs live on June 21 from the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California.
Tyla also bagged two nominations for Favourite Global Music Star and Favourite Music Collaboration for ‘Show Me Love’ with WizTheMc, and bees & honey.
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Kendrick Lamar, Ariana Grande, and Lady Gaga led the nominees for the 2025 Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards, with four nods each. They are closely followed by Selena Gomez, Dwayne Johnson, Jelly Roll, and Jack Black with three nominations each.
Reacting to her latest achievement via X on Thursday evening, an elated Tyla wrote, “I’m really about to host the kids’ choice awards.”
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Tyla Laura Seethal, known mononymously as Tyla, is a South African singer and songwriter. Her musical style is characterised by a fusion of pop and amapiano, with many publications dubbing her “Queen of Popiano”.
Born and raised in Johannesburg, Tyla signed with Epic Records in 2021 following the domestic success of her 2019 debut single, “Getting Late”.
She gained international recognition after the release of her 2023 single “Water”, which entered the top ten in multiple countries, including her native South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. “Water” was the first song by a South African soloist to enter the US Billboard Hot 100 in 55 years and was awarded the inaugural Grammy Award for Best African Music Performance.
The single preceded her self-titled debut album (2024), which was released to critical acclaim and moderate commercial success, entering or approaching the top 25 in multiple countries, including the United States.
Tyla is the youngest African artist in history to win a Grammy Award. Her other accolades include an MTV Video Music Award, two BET Awards, three MTV Europe Music Awards and the honorary Global Force Award at the first Billboard R&B’s No. 1’s, among nominations for a Brit Award, an Ivor Novello Award, a Soul Train Music Award and nine South African Music Awards.