Angélique Kidjo has announced her next album, Mother Nature. The 13-song LP is out June 18 and it features guest contributions from Burna Boy, Sampa the Great, EarthGang, Yemi Alade, and more. Today, ...

The first time Kidjo heard Talking Heads' "Once in a Lifetime," she knew it was an African song. Almost 35 years later, her new cover album sounds... Angélique Kidjo Connects Talking Heads With Her ...

The first time African diva Angelique Kidjo performed her song-by-song version of the Talking Heads’ classic “Remain in Light,” she was headlining a sold-out show at Carnegie Hall in May 2017. She was ...

Language is not universal: Every user, every listener, every usage changes its shape and scope. It ebbs and flows, includes and excludes, goes extinct and re-emerges, changed —that is universal.

Angelique Kidjo had to flee her home country of Benin as a young woman while it was suffering at the hands of a despotic ruler. But her brilliant creative spirit was her bridge out of the political ...

Angélique Kidjo has teamed up with Nigerian Afropop singer Yemi Alade for a new song called “Dignity.” The track was produced by Vtek da Awesom, and inspired by Nigeria’s youth movement, which has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Grammy winner Angélique Kidjo has released the music video for “How Can I Tell You?” from the new documentary “Nasrin.” The song ...

An encounter with Angélique Kidjo transcends space and time. We start off in Paris in April 2023, looking at each other on computer screens across the city. Soon we are in New York with some of its ...

With the coronavirus crisis rapidly unfolding, artists around the globe are coming up with innovative ways to keep the lights on and the music playing — without leaving the house. With this in mind, ...

In making a cover album of Talking Heads' Remain in Light, people kept telling Angélique Kidjo that the absurd songs had no meaning. But it didn't seem that way to her. She connected the music with ...