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Angélique Kidjo is a four-time Grammy nominated Beninese singer songwriter, noted for her diverse musical influences and creative music videos.

Kidjo was born in Ouidah, Benin. By the time she was six Kidjo was performing with her mother's theatre troupe, giving her an early appreciation for music and dance. Continuing political conflicts in Benin lead Kidjo to relocate to Paris around 1982. She started out as a backup singer in local bands, before establishing her own band, and by the end of the 1980s she had become one of the most popular live performers in Paris. She is married to musician and producer Jean Hebrail with whom she has daughter Naïma (born 1993), and is currently based in New York.

Kidjo is fluent in Fon, French, Yoruba, and English and sings in all four languages and also her own personal language which includes words that serve as songtitles such as Batonga. Malaika is a song sung in Swahili language. She often utilizes Benin's traditional Zilin vocal technique and jazz vocalese.

Her musical influences include the Afropop, Caribbean zouk, Congolese rumba, Jazz, Gospel, and Latin styles; as well as her childhood idols Bella Bellow, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Jimi Hendrix, Miriam Makeba and Carlos Santana. She has made her own renditions of George Gershwin's Summertime, Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Child, and The Rolling Stones' Gimme Shelter. and has collaborated with the likes of Dave Matthews and the Dave Matthews Band, Kelly Price, Branford Marsalis, Robbie Nevil, Carlos Santana, and Cassandra Wilson. Kidjo's hits include the songs "Agolo", "Ayé", and "Batonga".

In The Simpsons episode Simpson Safari, Homer's guide sings lines from Kidjo's "Wé-Wé", from her album Logozo.

In February of 2003, she performed a cover of Jimi Hendrix's "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" at the famed Radio City Music Hall in New York City alongside Chicago blues guitar legend Buddy Guy and New York rock guitarist Vernon Reid (of Living Colour) in what would become part of Martin Scorsese's "Lightning In A Bottle: One Night In The History Of The Blues", a documentary about blues music that features live concert footage of other rock, rap and blue greats.

She is also a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.

Angelique Kidjo released an album titled Djin Djin on May 1st, 2007. Many guests appear on the album including Josh Groban, Carlos Santana, Alicia Keys, Joss Stone, Peter Gabriel, Amadou and Mariam, Ziggy Marley, and Branford Marsalis. The title, Djin Djin, refers to the sound of a bell in Africa that greets each new day. The album is produced by Tony Visconti, who is known for producing David Bowie, Morrissey, and T. Rex, among others.

Discography
Pretty (African release only)
Parakou (1990)
Logozo (1991)
Ayé (1994)
Wombo Lombo (1996)
Fifa (1996)
Oremi (1998)
Keep On Moving: The Best Of Angelique Kidjo (2001)
Black Ivory Soul (2002)
Oyaya! (2004)
Djin Djin (2007)
Kidjo has also recorded many songs for various movies

Angelique Kidjo - Djin Djin (2007)
World Music

With DJIN DJIN (pronounced "gin gin"), Angelique Kidjo returns to the soul of Benin
- and, for the first time, shares it with a cast of all-star guests, in a marriage
of cultures that has significance far beyond music alone. Inspired by the traditions
and culture of Kidjo's native Benin in West Africa, the title of the album refers to
the sound of the bell that greets the beginning of a new day for Africa.

Guets: Alicia Keys, Peter Gabriel, Josh Groban, Carlos Santana, Joss Stone, Branford Marsalis
Produced by Tony Visconti

01. Ae Ae (03:31)
02. Djin Djin (Ft. Alicia Keys And Branford Marsalis) (04:18)
03. Gimme Shelter (Ft. Joss Stone) (04:09)
04. Salala (Ft. Peter Gabriel) (03:24)
05. Senamou (C'est L'amour) (Ft. Amadou And Mariam) (03:44)
06. Pearls (Ft. Josh Groban & Carlos Santana) (05:05)
07. Sedjedo (Ft. Ziggy Marley) (03:57)
08. Papa (04:35)
09. Arouna (03:35)
10. Awan N'la (03:28)
11. Emma (03:29)
12. Mama Golo Papa (03:40)
13. Lonlon (Ravel's Bolero) (04:54)

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2001 Angélique Kidjo - Keep on Moving-Best of Angelique Kidjo
Audio CD (May 15, 2001)
Original Release Date: May 15, 2001
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Sony

1. Summertime
2. Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
3. Agolo
4. Fifa
5. Batonga
6. Wombo Lombo
7. Malaika
8. Open Your Eyes (featuring Kelly Price)
9. The Sound Of The Drums
10. Adouma
11. Naima (featuring Carlos Santana)
12. Tourner La Page
13. Babalao
14. Agossi
15. Idje Idje
16. Tombo
17. We We
18. Senie

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MP3 @ 192 Kbps | 74:00 min | 106,40MB |
MP3 @ 192 Kbps | 74:00 min | 106,40MB |
Genre: World, West African, Afro Beat

1998 Angelique Kidjo - Oremi
Audio CD (November 24, 1998)
Original Release Date: November 24, 1998
Number of Discs: 1
Format: Extra tracks
Label: Fontana Island

1.Introduction
2.Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
3.Never Know
4.Babalao
5.Loloye
6.Itche Koutche
7.Open Your Eyes
8.Yaki Yaki
9.Give It Up
10.Oremi
11.Orubaba
12.No Worry

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MP3 @192 Kbps | 51:57 | 88,25 MB
Genre: World, West African, Afro Beat

1994 Angelique Kidjo - Aye
Audio CD (March 8, 1994)
Original Release Date: March 8, 1994
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Fontana Island

1. Agolo
2. Adouma
3. Azan Nan Kpe
4. Tatchedogbe
5. Djan - Djan
6. Lon Lon Vadjor
7. Houngbati
8. Idje - Idje
9. Yemandja
10. Tombo

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MP3 @ 192 Kbps | 46:49 | 67,28MB
Genre: World, West African, Afro Beat

Angélique Kidjo's high-powered soprano and stage charisma have carried the diminutive singer far from her native country of Bénin. She recorded her first solo album in Paris, her second in Miami, and her new one, Ayé in London with Soul II Soul's Will Mowat as one producer and in Minneapolis with Prince sidekick David Z. as the other. Kidjo sings in Fon and Yoruba (West African languages), but both producers as well as her cowriter Jean Hébrail reinforce her African rhythms with programmed drums and synths. The result is neither African music nor Anglo-American pop but a strange hybrid that contains some of the most exciting dance music anywhere today.
African purists will be annoyed that Mowat and Z. have pushed Kidjo even further from her roots than before. American dance club denizens will be bothered that they can't understand what she's singing (the translations in the CD booklet for Ayé suggest they aren't missing much--mere platitudes about optimism, tolerance, the homeless, love and God). Americans may also be thrown by the skipping polyrhythms of Kidjo's music, so different from the fat, on-the-one funk they're used to. Yet it's Kidjo's ability to sing strong and hard (with a little sizzle in her timbre as the notes trail off) even as she skips effortlessly through the polyrhythms that makes her sound so fresh. Her triumph is not the breakthrough of real Sub-Saharan music but of a new international pop that marries West African beats to the technology of the Western dance record.

1991 Angelique Kidjo - Logozo

01. batonga
02. tché-tché
03. logozo
04. wé-wé
05. malaika
06. ewa ka djo
07. kaléta
08. elédjiré
09. sénié
10. ekoléya

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Mp3 @1 192 Kbps | 40:35 | 57,94 MB
Genre: World, West African, Afro Beat

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