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Angelique Kidjo
Angélique Kpasseloko Hinto Hounsinou Kandjo Manta Zogbin Kidjo is a Beninese musician, actress, and activist. Kidjo has won five Grammy Awards and a Polar Music Prize. She has collaborated with artists including Alicia Keys, Peter Gabriel, John Legend, Philip Glass, Bono, Yo-Yo Ma, and Burna Boy. She is the second African artist — and the first of African ethnicity — to receive a star on the Holly…
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2026· 15 entries
BellaNaija: Angélique Kidjo Is Making Hollywood History as the First Black African Artist to Receive a Walk of Fame Star
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Leadership: Angélique Kidjo to Make History as First Black African Performer on Hollywood Walk of Fame
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Published video “Aug 18th Angelique Kidjo will be the FIRST BLACK AFRICAN to get a STAR on the Hollywood Walk of Fame”.
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Published video “💃🏿 I’m On Fire💃🏿”.
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Published video “July 14, 2026”.
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Published video “🔥When it is so HOT on stage in Vannes yesterday that you feel like dancing in your pyjamas! 😂💃🏿”.
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Published video “@louisvuitton fashion show x @Pharrell”.
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Published video “Apple Music Takeover Angelique Kidjo On Young African Artists”.
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Published video “« An African », my new duet with Idris Elba is out now!”.
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Published video “Thank you @colors for having me! 🙏🏿 #angeliquekidjo #colors”.
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Published video “💃🏿 I was on fire 🔥 this week in Paris 💃🏿🎶 I ain’t tired yet! 🎶 #angeliquekidjo”.
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Published video “HOPE!! physical version is out today in the US! 💃🏿 #angeliquekidjo”.
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And released the album's lead single, "Fall on Me", featuring PJ Morton
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Kidjo released the second single and its accompanying music video, "Aye Kan (Are You Coming Back)" featuring Nigerian singer Ayra Starr
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2024· 1 entry
Jazz: Angelique Kidjo
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2023· 2 entries
Awarded Polar Music Prize (2023).
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Yahoo Finance: Angélique Kidjo Awarded $100,000 Vilcek Prize in Music
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2022· 2 entries
Celebrity Causes: Angélique Kidjo Visits Bénin
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The Guardian: Post your questions for Angélique Kidjo at Glastonbury
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2021· 4 entries
Awarded Time 100 (2021).
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The Guardian: Angélique Kidjo: Mother Nature review – hip-hop exuberance meets African tradition
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The Guardian: ‘Africa has so much talent – we can’t even grasp it’: Angélique Kidjo on pop, politics and power
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Time magazine included her in its list of the 100 most influential people in the world
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2020· 3 entries
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (2020).
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Awarded BBC 100 Women (2020).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Global Music Album for Celia (2020).
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2019· 3 entries
Awarded Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (2019).
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The Guardian: Angélique Kidjo: Celia review – magnificent African reinvention of salsa | Robin Denselow's world album of the month
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President Macron of France named Kidjo as the spokesperson for the AFAWA initiative (Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa) to help close the financing gap for women entrepreneurs in Africa
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2018· 3 entries
Awarded OkayAfrica 100 Women (2018).
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The Guardian: Angélique Kidjo Sings Talking Heads review – turns up the Afrobeat
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Remain in Light is a track-by-track re-imagination of Talking Heads' landmark 1980 album, one of the most acclaimed albums of the 1980s (placing number 39 on Rolling Stone's 2023 Best Album's of All Time list and earning
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2017· 2 entries
The Guardian: On Mass with Angélique Kidjo review – vocal powerhouse unites the masses
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Awarded Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (2017).
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2016· 5 entries
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Global Music Album for Sings (2016).
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Awarded Ambassador of Conscience Award (2016).
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The Guardian: Angélique Kidjo honoured with Amnesty International top human rights award
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The Guardian: 10 acts to see at Womadelaide 2016: Angélique Kidjo to Violent Femmes
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Career landmark: Montreux Jazz Festival 2016.
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2015· 6 entries
Sang Afirika at the opening of the United Nations General Assembly in New York in support of the launch of the Global Goals for Sustainable Development along with Shakira after a speech by Pope Francis and before Mal
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Awarded Crystal Award (2015).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Global Music Album for Eve (2015).
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Kidjo released her collaboration with the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra
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And 2016, Batonga began to focus on education programs aimed at excluded young women and girls, providing girls with safe spaces and mentors, equipping them with life and financial literacy skills, and helping them start
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Signed an open letter which the ONE Campaign had been collecting signatures for; the letter was addressed to Angela Merkel and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, urging them to focus on women as they serve as the head of the G7
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2014· 6 entries
Kidjo was one of the endorsees of the People's Climate March
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Awarded All Africa Music Award for Best Female Artiste in Western Africa (2014).
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Awarded All Africa Music Award for Best African Contemporary (2014).
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Kidjo met with US First Lady Michelle Obama to discuss international girls' education, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building of the White House
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Kidjo the album Eve, which was dedicated to the women of Africa
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“Eve is an album of remembrance of African women I grew up with and a testament to the pride and strength that hide behind the smile that masks everyday troubles.”
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2013· 1 entry
At the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, Kidjo was the host of a night of celebration for the cultural heritage of Mali
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2012· 1 entry
Kidjo performed for the opening of the Carnival of Recife, Brazil with Nana Vasconcelos and Maestro Forro
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2011· 7 entries
Kidjo sang "Malaika" in Oslo at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony honoring Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakul Karman
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And sang at the Award Ceremony on November 12, 2011, also in Dakar on November 10, 2012, Addis Ababa in November 2013 and Accra in November 2015
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Kidjo performed at the Doha Tribeca Film Festival in Qatar, following the screening of Mama Africa, a documentary about Miriam Makeba's life
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Created a special concert based on Beninese traditional songs with guest guitarist Lionel Loueke for the "Heroic Africans" exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of New York
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Awarded Champions of the Earth (2011).
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Kidjo performed her most famous songs with the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra at the Philharmonie Luxembourg Hall
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Kidjo collaborated with Forró in the Dark and Brazilian Girls on the track "Aquele Abraço" for the Red Hot Organization's most recent charitable album Red Hot + Rio 2
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2010· 11 entries
Kidjo presented her "Sound Of The Drum" show at Carnegie Hall
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Kidjo sang at the 30th Anniversary celebration of Solidarnosc in the Polish city of Gdańsk produced by Bob Wilson and Hal Willner featuring Philip Glass, Marianne Faithfull, Rufus Wainwright and Macy Gray
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The appointment of Kidjo as one of 14 Peace Ambassadors to support the implementation of the 2010 Year of Peace and Security program
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Performed at Les FrancoFolies de Montréal – the Montreal Francofolies festival of French-language music
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Berklee College of Music (2010).
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Awarded Officer of Arts and Letters (2010).
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Was part of the Official Kick-Off Celebration Concert of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa, along with John Legend, Hugh Masekela, Shakira, Alicia Keys, Juanes and Black Eyed Peas
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Performed at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Los Angeles Philharmonic concert hall designed by Frank Gehry
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Kidjo performed in Vancouver for the Winter Olympic Games at the Place De La Francophonie
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And in America on April 6, 2010, pays tribute to the music of Kidjo's childhood in Benin
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Career landmark: Montreux Jazz Festival 2010.
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2009· 5 entries
On the opening day of the UN Copenhagen Climate Change summit, Kidjo sang, along with Anggun, Shaggy, Youssou N'Dour and Cheb Khaled, at the Dance 4 Climate Change concert
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In Cape Town, South Africa, Kidjo performed her song "Agolo" at the Final Draw of the Fifa World Cup 2010
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Sang at the United Nations General Assembly for the UN Day Concert, A Tribute to Peacekeeping with Nile Rodgers, John McLaughlin and Lang Lang
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UNICEF and Pampers launched a campaign to eradicate Tetanus "Give the Gift of Life" and asked Kidjo to produce the song "You Can Count On Me" to support the campaign
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Career landmark: Montreux Jazz Festival 2009.
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2008· 4 entries
Along with Hugh Masekela for the "African Stars" concert benefitting VSO
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Global Music Album for Djin Djin (2008).
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Awarded Commander of the National Order of Benin (2008).
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Career landmark: Montreux Jazz Festival 2008.
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2007· 4 entries
And on November 15, 2008, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on November 14, 2009, and in Mauritius on November 20, 2010
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Kidjo performed at the South African leg of Live Earth
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And participated in the video for the in My Name Campaign with will
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Toured North America extensively with Josh Groban's "Awake" show
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2006· 1 entry
Kidjo founded the Batonga Foundation with the stated goal of empowering and educating adolescent girls in sub-Saharan Africa
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2005· 1 entry
Kidjo appeared at the Africa Unite Live concert in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, a concert to celebrate the Honourable Bob Marley's 60th birthday and was a featured speaker at the conference of African Unity held along with the
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2004· 2 entries
Won Medal of the City of Paris (2004).
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Career landmark: Montreux Jazz Festival 2004.
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2002· 4 entries
Awarded MOBO Awards (2002).
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Career landmark: UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador (2002).
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Performed in Oslo for the Nobel Peace Prize Concert honoring US President Jimmy Carter
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Career landmark: Montreux Jazz Festival 2002.
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2000· 2 entries
Kidjo traveled to Salvador de Bahia to start recording the Axe percussion grooves for this album, based on Afro-Brazilian culture
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Was signed in New York by Columbia Records, for whom she recorded two albums
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1998· 2 entries
Was part of Sarah McLachlan's Lilith Fair tour
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Began recording a trilogy of albums (Oremi, Black Ivory Soul and Oyaya) exploring the African roots of the music of the Americas
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1997· 2 entries
Awarded Kora Awards (1997).
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Career landmark: Montreux Jazz Festival 1997.
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1996· 1 entry
Kidjo performed in Oslo, Norway, for the Nobel Peace Prize Concert honoring Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and José Ramos-Horta for their work in East Timor
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1995· 2 entries
Awarded Danish Music Awards (1995).
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To record the traditional rhythms that formed the base for the Fifa album
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1994· 2 entries
Career landmark: Montreux Jazz Festival 1994.
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The album Ayé was produced by David Z at Prince's Paisley Park Studios in Minnesota and by Will Mowat at Soul To Soul studio in London
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1991· 1 entry
And reached number one on the Billboard World Albums chart
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1989· 1 entry
Was the beginning of a series of collaborations with producer and composer Jean Hébrail and featured Jasper van't Hof
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1987· 1 entry
Kidjo married French musician and producer Jean Hébrail in 1987.
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1986· 1 entry
Career landmark: Montreux Jazz Festival 1986.
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1985· 1 entry
Became the front singer of Jasper van 't Hof's Euro-African jazz/rock band Pili Pili
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1960· 1 entry
Born 1960-07-14.
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