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
crisis horn millions people
But this isn't just about Kenya. This crisis is devastating the whole of the Horn of Africa. Millions of people are still suffering.
love-you people defining
What you do that makes you happy and that makes your family, the people that love you, their opinion counts more than anybody out there that is putting a category on you or defining you according to the old phantasmal.
country people political
Education is very political, because when you educate the people, then you have a country that you can't fool anymore.
people feelings use
I never use someone just because they are great musicians. I work with people who have the same kind of feeling towards the music that I do, and the subject that I'm speaking of at that time.
thinking people care
I don't care about what people think about me.
people important cards
Doing an album is like having a business card; to show people what you do. The most important thing to me is the stage. I do albums because I love the stage.
people facts refuse
There are people who refuse to say that Africa is a continent, but that doesn't remove the fact that it is a continent.
people talk-to-me mines
I collaborate with people because their music talk to me as much as mine talk to them.
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.
believe people empowering
Telling my story is to empower people to believe in their own power. We have so much power individually.
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.
people ifs
You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.
behave lives losing stop
We have to stop the vulnerability of losing lives so stupidly. We have the capacity. We have the brains, yet we behave like new-born kids.
african blues bringing combining culture easier jazz music rhythm technology tools western
I'm an African bringing my culture to the Western world. But I use technology and rhythm and blues and jazz and rock. I make it easier for you by combining your tools with mine. But then some will say the music is not pure.