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Angelique Kidjo is a singer and musician from Benin, a West African country, known for blending traditional African music with contemporary styles. She has become an internationally recognized artist and cultural ambassador, helping to bring African music and culture to global audiences.
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Ouidah, Benin
Angélique Kidjo, is a Grammy Award-winning Beninese singer-songwriter, actress and activist, noted for her diverse musical influences and creative music videos. Description above from the Wikipedia article Angélique Kidjo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
- Grace for the World — Self2025
- A Grammy Salute to Cyndi Lauper: Live from the Hollywood Bowl — Self2025
- Florent Pagny fait son Taratata — Self2025
- Angélique Kidjo : 40 ans de carrière — Self2025
- Fatoumata Diawara à l'Olympia — Self : Guest2025
- Le Concert de la Paix — Self : Guest2025
- Nos Voix Pour Toutes 2024 — Self2024
- Notre-Dame de Paris : La Réouverture - La Grande Soirée — Self2024
- Unis pour Mayotte — Self2024
- Nina Simone, la rebelle — self2024
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Ouidah
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Position held
- UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador
- Employer
- UNICEF
- Languages spoken
- Gun
- Native language
- Fon
- Hair colour
- black hair
- Genre
- world music
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Island Records
- Official website
- www.kidjo.com
- Image
- 25o Premio da Musica Brasileira (14004847740).jpg
- Number of children
- 1
- Residence
- New York City
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- date of birth
- 1960-07-14
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- BBC 100 Women Edit-a-thon
- social media followers
- 246000
- start of work period
- 1982-00-00
- birth name
- Angélique Kpasseloko Hinto Hounsinou Kandjo Manta Zogbin Kidjo
- pseudonym
- Carmen Kidjo
- copyright representative
- SACEM
- nominated for
- Grammy Award for Best Music Video
- name in native language
- Angélique Kidjo
- P10632
- Angelique Kidjo
- described at URL
- www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/nyregion/07routine.html
- alternative name
- Angélique Kpasseloko Hinto Hounsinou Kango Manta Zogbin
- Commons category
- Angélique Kidjo
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Encyclopedic overview
Angélique Kpasseloko Hinto Hounsinou Kandjo Manta Zogbin Kidjo (/ˌɒ̃ʒəˈliːk ˈkɪdʒuː, - ˈkɪdʒoʊ/ born c.1960) 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 first Black African artist to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She performed at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony on July 23, 2021. In 2021, Time magazine included her in its list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Kidjo is fluent in five languages: Fon, French, Yorùbá, Gen (Mina) and English. She sings in all of them, and she also has her own personal language, which includes words that serve as song titles such as "Batonga". Kidjo often uses Benin's traditional Zilin vocal technique and vocalese.
Early life
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