CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: And, Angelique, I just want to ask you briefly, what were your earliest influences? Who were your earliest influences? Who did you look to, either in Africa or outside of Africa, ...

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, ...

*Three-time Grammy award-winning songstress and activist, Angélique Kidjo, is back with a new album and tour. Kidjo is one of Africa’s most celebrated singers, and one of the few celebrities speaking ...

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.

She has won Grammys, travelled widely as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, and set up a foundation to empower and educate sub-Saharan girls – she was one of the few girls from her own culture to receive ...

Benin Republic and Africa's Angelique Kidjo says Africa is on the rise on winning her third grammy award for the best world music album Angelique Kidjo, one of Africa's most prominent musicians, won ...

“Boy, I would say that it was probably a compilation album of Aretha Franklin’s greatest hits, but I didn’t get it until I moved to Europe. In Africa, my brother used to buy a lot of albums when there ...

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, ...