Angélique Kidjo Talks ‘Hope,’ Her Mother’s Legacy and Making History With a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Two things have been crucial to a restless Angélique Kidjo since her childhood in Benin, West Africa: diverse, universal, nuanced brands of truthful musical storytelling in all its forms, and her mother.Selling nearly four million albums worldwide, winning five Grammys, writing a bestselling autobiography, “Spirit Rising,” with its foreword by Desmond Tutu, and becoming the first Black African artist to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame are all just icing on a very sweet cake. “This is everything to me,” she says loudly with a laugh (via Zoom) of her music, her mission and her mother, as she gesticulates wildly for punctuation at every turn.
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Two things have been crucial to a restless Angélique Kidjo since her childhood in Benin, West Africa: diverse, universal, nuanced brands of truthful musical storytelling in all its forms, and her mother.Selling nearly four million albums worldwide, winning five Grammys, writing a bestselling autobiography, “Spirit Rising,” with its foreword by Desmond Tutu, and becoming the first Black African artist to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame are all just icing on a very sweet cake. “This is everything to me,” she says loudly with a laugh (via Zoom) of her music, her mission and her mother, as she gesticulates wildly for punctuation at every turn. She’ll receive her star Aug. 18 at 11:30 in a ceremony at 7011 Hollywood Blvd.
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- Two things have been crucial to a restless Angélique Kidjo since her childhood in Benin, West Africa: diverse, universal, nuanced brands of truthful musical storytelling in all its forms, and her mother.Selling nearly four million albums worldwide, winning five Grammys, writing a bestselling autobiography, “Spirit Rising,” with its foreword by Desmond Tutu, and becoming the first Black African artist to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame are all just icing on a very sweet cake. “This is everything to me,” she says loudly with a laugh (via Zoom) of her music, her mission and her mother, as she gesticulates wildly for punctuation at every turn.
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Angélique Kidjo Talks ‘Hope,’ Her Mother’s Legacy and Making History With a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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