Angelique Kidjo
Angelique Kidjo
Angélique Kpasseloko Hinto Hounsinou Kandjo Manta Zogbin Kidjo, known as Angélique Kidjo, is a Beninese-born American Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter and activist, noted for her diverse musical influences and creative music videos. Time magazine has called her "Africa's premier diva". The BBC has included Kidjo in its list of the African continent's 50 most iconic figures. The Guardian has listed her as one of its Top 100 Most Inspiring Women in the World and Kidjo is the first woman to...
ProfessionSoul Singer
Date of Birth14 July 1960
people talk-to-me mines
I collaborate with people because their music talk to me as much as mine talk to them.
thinking dresses accessories
If you're on stage and you're more concerned about your dress, and then you think that the public is accessory, you got nothing to do there.
people want misery
I want everybody to be happy because, if you're happy, you are more open to other people. Don't let misery bring you down.
moving-on fall black-women
You can fall, but you can rise also.
thinking proud define-you
Don't let anyone define you from what you live through and everything that they think you stand for. Just be proud of who you are.
stupid giving weapons
Even the most racist person make a very painful racial comment, give him a smile. It's better than you take a weapon on him because he's just gonna go like, "Oh." He's just being stupid.
community vision world
From the moment you are clear in your vision of yourself and how you project that vision in your family, your community and in the world, that's all that matters.
believe people empowering
Telling my story is to empower people to believe in their own power. We have so much power individually.
color long challenges
Your color doesn't define your brain nor your soul. You can stand next to any human being and challenge that person as long as you use your brain.
dream hurt heart
Dream big, as long as you do it in sync with your truth, with your heart, your brain. And you are not hurting anybody, go ahead and do it.
government politician make-sense
Education is not something that the government invests in. Because if you invest in education, no politician can come and tell you something that doesn't make sense.
people challenges attention
The richness of Africa, culturally, is vast. That's the challenge that we have to face, because most of the time, people in the western world, their attention span is really narrow.
doors bridges music-love
If you love music, you have to be the one that opens doors. You have to be the one that build bridge on which everybody can be free to walk on. I know that that's my mission.
fall challenges important
It doesn't matter what challenge you face, the most important thing is, when you fall, how you rise and how high you want to go, where you want to go from that rise on.