Angelique Kidjo
Angelique Kidjo
Angélique Kpasseloko Hinto Hounsinou Kandjo Manta Zogbin Kidjo, known as Angélique Kidjo, is a Beninese-born American Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter and activist, noted for her diverse musical influences and creative music videos. Time magazine has called her "Africa's premier diva". The BBC has included Kidjo in its list of the African continent's 50 most iconic figures. The Guardian has listed her as one of its Top 100 Most Inspiring Women in the World and Kidjo is the first woman to...
ProfessionSoul Singer
Date of Birth14 July 1960
moving-on fall black-women
You can fall, but you can rise also.
recognise
I’m honoured when Africa recognises me
stories storyteller
I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me.
mirrors looks done
I want to look at myself in the mirror at the end of my life and say I've done my share and I'm proud of what I've done.
victim manipulate ifs
Don't say that you are a victim if you let somebody manipulate you.
views sanctuary body
For me, from the point of view of my life, I've been impacted by women that taught me that, as a woman, my body is a sanctuary, that whoever I invite in my body, I have to be clear in that invitation.
love-you people defining
What you do that makes you happy and that makes your family, the people that love you, their opinion counts more than anybody out there that is putting a category on you or defining you according to the old phantasmal.
fate
Don't let anyone define and decide for you fate.
thinking people care
I don't care about what people think about me.
people important cards
Doing an album is like having a business card; to show people what you do. The most important thing to me is the stage. I do albums because I love the stage.
long problem
As long as you are happy with your life, you'll have less problems.
would-be world achieve
If everybody can be happy with what they achieve with their life, this world would be a better place.
worth-living
What we have to learn from the women of Africa is that every day is worth living.
people facts refuse
There are people who refuse to say that Africa is a continent, but that doesn't remove the fact that it is a continent.