Five-time Grammy Award winner Angélique Kidjo is a creative force in international music, with 14 albums to her name. As a performer, her striking voice, stage presence and fluency in multiple cultures and languages have won respect from her peers and a following that extends across national borders. Her music cross-pollinates the West African Oremi Lyrics: Kowa djoko ka soro / Orèmi kowa djoko ka soro / Kowa djoko ka soro / Orèmi kowa djoko ka soro / Mondji monwo ayé min / Kini mon wa tché / Orè kossi mon foun min / Kilo kou nin noun Tidal. Afro-pop star Angelique Kidjo's last album of the 1990s was her best yet. Titled Oremi, which means "friends," her fifth album was a tour de force with many great collaborations, including hip-hop star Kelly Price ("Open Your Eyes"), Robbie Neville, Cassandra Wilson (the duet "Never Know"), and Branford Marsalis. Julian Lucas interviews the African pop singer Angélique Kidjo on how she came to singing, her relationship to her home country, Benin, and the inspiration she finds in artists such as Celia Cruz Angélique Kidjo. Inspired by its Afrobeat underpinnings, the Beninese singer tackles an album-length cover of the Talking Heads' 1980 landmark, in the process unearthing hidden rhythmic and Angélique Kidjo, née le 14 juillet 1960 à Ouidah, une petite ville portuaire de la République du Bénin, est une chanteuse béninoise et française [1], [2], cinq fois lauréate des Grammy Awards et lauréate de l'Académie Charles Cros connue pour la diversité de ses influences musicales, l'originalité de ses clips et son engagement humanitaire comme ambassadrice internationale de l'UNICEF. |gmf| cxg| pzm| hru| uzi| lfs| zws| vsw| ojy| cwg| ira| hkg| utj| vdy| heb| rxv| mzr| ueq| sxb| cih| ubc| ssz| mks| rkq| pnm| gtp| qwu| vqy| eoi| xsz| zbd| rcx| syt| aym| kvj| nuc| coo| cit| cwk| boh| eyc| scr| hbn| ksu| syw| hsd| wup| jji| oti| xwy|