Then Angélique Kidjo (1960) as a child in the West African country of Benin for the first time in her life heard the music of James Brown, she dreamed directly from a career as a singer. She could not know that she would live in Paris twenty years later and it soon became known as the best and most famous singer in her country. In 1991 she signed with Island Records where she recorded several strong
… albums. Kidjo shows a wide view as a singer and she injects her funky afrobeat influences from rock, gospel, Latin, R & B and Caribbean music. This is a true cosmopolitan who sings in four different languages living singer in New York. In addition, the singer works as an ambassador for UNICEF.more
