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"Samba Pa Ti", "Kelele",
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"Agolo", "Move On Up".
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Grammy Award winner Angélique Kpasseloko Hinto Hounsinou Kandjo Manta
Zogbin Kidjo is a Beninese singer-songwriter, actress, and activist who is noted
for her diverse musical influences and creative music videos.
She grew up listening to Yoruba and Beninese traditional music, Miriam
Makeba, Hugh Masekela, James Brown, Manu Dibango, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix,
Fela Kuti, Stevie
Wonder, Osibisa, and
Santana.
The album, Oremi, is a collection of songs mixing African and
African-American influences.
Cassandra Wilson,
Branford
Marsalis, Kelly
Price and Kenny Kirkland collaborated with Kidjo on this project. The
opening track is a cover of Jimi Hendrix's "Voodoo Child".
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On May 1, 2007, Angelique Kidjo released the album, Djin Djin. Many
guests appear on the album, including
Josh Groban,
Carlos Santana,
Alicia Keys,
Joss Stone,
Peter Gabriel,
Amadou and Mariam, Ziggy
Marley, and Branford Marsalis.
In 2007, TIME magazine called Angelique Kidjo "Africa's premier diva".
On January 20, 2009, along with
Joan Baez,
Michael Franti
and Jackson Browne,
she performed at the Peace Ball for Barack Obama's inauguration in Washington,
DC.
On August 30, 2010, Angelique Kidjo sang at the 30th Anniversary
celebration of Solidarnosc in the Polish city of Gdańsk featuring Philip Glass,
Marianne Faithfull,
Rufus Wainwright
and Macy Gray.
On December 11, 2011, Kidjo performed at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert,
along with Janelle
Monáe, Evanescence,
Sugarland,
Jill Scott, and many
others.
On April 30, 2012, Kidjo was part of the International Jazz Day organized
by UNESCO at the United Nations General Assembly Hall in New York City, with
Herbie Hancock,
Terence
Blanchard, Ron Carter,
Wayne Shorter, Tony Bennett,
Chaka Khan,
Stevie Wonder, Hugh Masekela, and many others.
On October 9, 2012, Kidjo sang for the One World Concert in Syracuse, NY,
honoring the Dalai Lama. The Concert was organized by the Syracuse University
and also featured
Dave Matthews,
Swizz Beatz,
Natasha
Bedingfield, David Crosby,
Counting Crows,
Roberta Flack,
Nelly Furtado,
A.R. Rahman.
Kidjo sung an Hans Zimmer's
arrangement of "Imagine", along with
John Legend,
Keith Urban and
Alejandro Sanz
during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony on July 23, 2021.
On
September 15, 2021, TIME included her in their list of the 100 most influential
people in the world.
Angelique Kidjo's musical influences include the Afropop,
Caribbean zouk, Congolese rumba, jazz, gospel, and Latin styles. Her childhood
idols include Bella Bellow, James Brown, Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin, Celia
Cruz, Jimi Hendrix, Miriam Makeba and
Carlos Santana.
Angelique Kidjo has collaborated with Dave Matthews and the
Dave Matthews
Band, Kelly Price,
Alicia Keys,
Branford Marsalis,
Ziggy Marley,
Philip Glass, Peter
Gabriel, Bono, Yo-Yo Ma,
Carlos Santana,
John Legend,
Herbie Hancock,
Josh Groban, Dr
John, the Kronos Quartet, Yemi Alade,
Cassandra Wilson,
Burna Boy, Sting, Mr Eazi, and
Indonesia's pop star Anggun.
Kidjo is fluent in five languages: Fon, French, Yorùbá, Gen (Mina), and English.
She sings in all of them.
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