In March 2020, Angelique Kidjo was set to headline at Carnegie Hall to celebrate her upcoming 60th birthday and commemorate the 60th anniversary of 17 sub-Saharan countries gaining their independence ...

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 ...

Angélique Kidjo is a diva of the first magnitude. But while many singers of her stature balance incredible talent with incredible amounts of cattiness and egocentricity, Kidjo - a striking, dynamic ...

STOCKHOLM – Five-time Grammy Award winner Angélique Kidjo, Island Records founder Chris Blackwell and Estonian composer Arvo Pärt have won the 2023 Polar Music Prize, a Swedish music award. The three ...

Ever since she fled the communist government ruling her native Benin in 1983 to pursue a singing career in Paris, Angélique Kidjo has thrived in an array of musical settings. Melding West African ...

WUFT Morning Edition host, Glenn Richards, spoke with five-time Grammy Award-winning musician Angélique Kidjo. NPR has called her "Africa's greatest living diva." Kidjo shared her insights on life and ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Angelique Kidjo has the kind of staying power that today’s pop stars would give up their Instagram followers to get. With a new album, Sings, out this year, two Grammy awards under her belt and ...

Singer-songwriter Angélique Kidjo is widely considered one of the greatest artists in international music today. The now three-time Grammy winner took home her latest musical honor in the Best World ...