Deadline.com

TriStar’s ‘Woman King’ Starring Viola Davis Adds Four Including Angelique Kidjo

(L-R) Angelique Kidjo, Jimmy Odukoya, Thando Dlomo and Jordan Bolger AP; Sony Pictures EXCLUSIVE: Four-time Grammy Award winner Angelique Kidjo, Jimmy Odukoya, Thando Dlomo and Jordan Bolger have ...
Essence

Angélique Kidjo Is Passing The Torch

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, ...
Variety

Angélique Kidjo Enters Oscars Song Race With ‘How Can I Tell You?’ From ‘Nasrin’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Grammy winner Angélique Kidjo has released the music video for “How Can I Tell You?” from the new documentary “Nasrin.” The song is written by Lynn Ahrens (lyrics) and Stephen Flaherty (music). The ...
BroadwayWorld

Angélique Kidjo at Center for the Arts at George Mason University

Five-time GRAMMY Award winner Angélique Kidjo brings her powerhouse voice, electrifying stage presence, and joyous music to the Center for the Arts. Named one of 2021’s “Most Influential People” by ...
The Boston Globe

Angelique Kidjo’s music and her mission to empower women

About halfway through the “About” section on four-time Grammy winner Angelique Kidjo’s website, your jaw starts to fall open. How one person could have done so much is almost unbelievable. She’s one ...
Washingtonian

Willie Nelson, Angélique Kidjo, and Rostam Among Performers at NatGeo Earth Day Eve Concert

Willie Nelson, Angélique Kidjo, Yo-Yo Ma, and Ziggy Marley are among the performers for National Geographic’s Earth Day Eve 2021 concert, which will stream live on National Geographic’s YouTube ...
Jambands

Angélique Kidjo Sings At The Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games Tokyo

Today Angélique Kidjo sang at the open ceremony of the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. She along with a group of globally renowned artists delivered a cover of John Lennon’s “Imagine.” The ...
East Bay Times

Angelique Kidjo’s ‘Once in a Lifetime’ cover comes to Berkeley

Angélique Kidjo laughs when she remembers the first time she heard “Once in a Lifetime.” “I thought, ‘What is this?,” Kidjo says. “I didn’t know where it came from, but the melody kept haunting me.“ ...
The New Yorker

Angélique Kidjo’s Curious, Inclusive Music

With a nearly four-decade career, Angélique Kidjo is a towering figure of cross-cultural music. Her work, which extends from Afrobeat and jazz to Afro-pop and world fusion, grows only more inclusive ...
NPR

With 'Mother Nature,' Angelique Kidjo Passes The Torch To Young African Musicians

In January 2020, Angélique Kidjo took the stage at the Grammys to accept the award for Best World Music Album for Celia, a reinterpretation of songs by the Cuban "Queen of Salsa" Celia Cruz. Kidjo's ...
Los Angeles Times

The Broad Stage touts projects with Kidjo, Shorter, Spalding and Gehry

What do architect Frank Gehry, artist Kerry James Marshall, Tony-winning director Rachel Chavkin and Grammy winner Angélique Kidjo have in common? They are all artist collaborators on five newly ...