World music star Angélique Kidjo launching global tour in Ann Arbor

Five-time Grammy winner Angélique Kidjo's new album, HOPE!!, out April 24, pulses with messages of affirmation and resilience ...
Jazz

Angelique Kidjo

A powerful singer and tireless performer, Angelique Kidjo has been one of the most successful performers to emerge on world music stages in the 1990s and 2000s. Her music not only draws from African ...
NPR

Superstar Angélique Kidjo sings at the 1000th Tiny Desk — and speaks from her heart

NPR is celebrating its 1,000th Tiny Desk Concert. And who better to mark the occasion than the 5-time Grammy award-winning Beninese artist and international sensation Angélique Kidjo? Kidjo's music is ...
Rolling Stone

Angélique Kidjo and Ibrahim Maalouf on Using Music and Myth to Connect Across Cultures

It’s a story thousands upon thousands of years old, yet two widely acclaimed musicians have now blown the dust off the ancient tome. Queen of Sheba, the 2022 album from singer Angélique Kidjo and ...
The Africa Report

Angélique Kidjo, an encounter beyond space and time

An encounter with Angélique Kidjo transcends space and time. We start off in Paris in April 2023, looking at each other on computer screens across the city. Soon we are in New York with some of its ...
The New Yorker

Angélique Kidjo Has Heard It All

Kidjo enrolled at the Centre d’informations musicales, a jazz school in Paris, and immersed herself in the city’s emerging world-music scene. Her début album with Island Records, “Logozo” (1991), ...