2 (UPI) --Angelique Kidjo ... a fallacy to view femininity in a simplistic or one-dimensional manner. It is both multiple and diverse and Kidjo seems to have been nurtured on this fundamental ...

The five-time Grammy Award winner Angelique Kidjo, Chris Blackwell who is the founder of one of the most successful a record label and Estonian composer Arvo Prt have won the 2023 Polar Music ...

“If you are an African musician, people are waiting for you to fail,” says Angélique Kidjo, five time Grammy-winning singer, songwriter and activist from Benin in West Africa – and one of ...

Ambrose Akinmusire is one of the best trumpeters in the world and will likely be remembered as the leading light of his generation of jazz musicians. Though the 40-year-old Bay Area native records ...

Orchestra. Seemingly everything Kidjo does is guided by her passions, and one of these is tirelessly correcting negative perceptions of Africa and challenging Eurocentrism. "The classical world is ...

Nigerian-born singer and performer, Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, professionally known as Wizkid, strongly holds down the number ...

Mesmerized, she told her mom that one day she wanted to wear clothes like that herself. She got her big chance when a little girl who was supposed to play a princess fell ill. Kidjo's mom needed ...

At this weekend’s Grammy Awards, one of the nominees for Best Global Music is ‘Queen of Sheba,’ a 7-years-in-the-making collaboration between artists Angélique Kidjo and Ibrahim Maalouf.

The founder of the jazz school produced their first album, and pressed 500 copies, which Kidjo sent to every major record label exec in France. “No one cared”, she says. But in fact ...

Kidjo elaborated on her mission. “What we are doing is empowering young women to take the lead in their own lives, to understand that no one—no tradition—can force them into early marriage ...

Orchestra. Seemingly everything Kidjo does is guided by her passions, and one of these is tirelessly correcting negative perceptions of Africa and challenging Eurocentrism. "The classical world is ...