Angélique Kidjo has announced her next album, Mother Nature. The 13-song LP is out June 18 and it features guest contributions from Burna Boy, Sampa the Great, EarthGang, Yemi Alade, and more. Today, ...
Angelique Kidjo had to flee her home country of Benin as a young woman while it was suffering at the hands of a despotic ruler. But her brilliant creative spirit was her bridge out of the political ...
Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify and Apple playlists at the bottom of the page. Angélique Kidjo now has a pair of ...
Grammy winning singer Angélique Kidjo brought her musical and culinary talents to Croft Alley at The Standard in Hollywood last week for an intimate dinner and concert to raise funds for her Batonga ...
Grammy winner Angélique Kidjo has released the music video for “How Can I Tell You?” from the new documentary “Nasrin.” The song is written by Lynn Ahrens (lyrics) and Stephen Flaherty (music). The ...
When three-time Grammy-winning singer Angelique Kidjo was a 12-year-old schoolgirl in her native Benin, her best friend suddenly disappeared from school. Kidjo went to her friend's house and asked her ...
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Might Angelique Kidjo Be the Righful Queen of Afropop?
We're thinking Kings and Queens this week at Afropop. And while many might make the claim to be "Queen of Afropop" these days, it's hard to think of anyone with a better claim to that throne than ...
The adage that music is a universal language may be shopworn, but when molded by petite powerhouse Angelique Kidjo, it takes on a decided ring of truth. Singing in French, Portuguese and Yoruba, with ...
An encounter with Angélique Kidjo transcends space and time. We start off in Paris in April 2023, looking at each other on computer screens across the city. Soon we are in New York with some of its ...
When Angélique Kidjo moved to France from her native Benin in 1983, she developed an addiction and allowed it to run wild. Now one of the most well-known singers in African pop, Kidjo at the time had ...
In January 2020, Angélique Kidjo took the stage at the Grammys to accept the award for Best World Music Album for Celia, a reinterpretation of songs by the Cuban "Queen of Salsa" Celia Cruz. Kidjo's ...
Language is not universal: Every user, every listener, every usage changes its shape and scope. It ebbs and flows, includes and excludes, goes extinct and re-emerges, changed —that is universal.
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