The adage that music is a universal language may be shopworn, but when molded by petite powerhouse Angelique Kidjo, it takes on a decided ring of truth. Singing in French, Portuguese and Yoruba, with ...

Singer-songwriter Angelique Kidjo was born in Benin, West Africa. Today, she lives in New York City and is widely considered Africa's greatest living diva. For Kidjo, music provides an outlet for both ...

Ahead of their special performance of “Sarabande Africaine” at the Hearst Greek Theatre, globally-renowned singer Angélique Kidjo and cellist Yo-Yo Ma dialed in with The Daily Californian to talk ...

The Freight (formerly known as Freight & Salvage until this year) in Berkeley will feature five-time Grammy Award-winner and global music icon Angélique Kidjo when its annual benefit concert returns ...

*Angelique Kidjo is on a one-way trip to history, with becoming the first Black African artist to be inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Black Enterprise reports the Grammy-winning singer will ...

Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify and Apple playlists at the bottom of the page. Angélique Kidjo now has a pair of ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Angelique Kidjo was 22, supporting herself through music school in Paris by variously working as a babysitter, hotel cleaner and ...

Angélique Kidjo reflects on African music and using song to create human connections. Grammy-winner Angélique Kidjo is out with a new album, “Eve,” and an autobiography, “Spirit Rising: My Life, My ...

Angélique Kidjo spent most of the past year in Paris, where she lived for almost 20 years from 1980 to the late ’90s. The multihyphenate Beninese-American music icon is usually based in New York City, ...

Growing up in the port city of Cotonou in the impoverished West African state of Benin, songstress Angélique Kidjo puts the fact that she was lucky enough to get an education down to a pact she made ...

When Angélique Kidjo moved to France from her native Benin in 1983, she developed an addiction and allowed it to run wild. Now one of the most well-known singers in African pop, Kidjo at the time had ...

The term clanked off Angélique Kidjo’s ear when she first heard it. “African American.” How could someone be American and African at the same time, she wondered? “You think I’m stupid because I’m a ...