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
government politician make-sense
Education is not something that the government invests in. Because if you invest in education, no politician can come and tell you something that doesn't make sense.
dream hurt heart
Dream big, as long as you do it in sync with your truth, with your heart, your brain. And you are not hurting anybody, go ahead and do it.
doors bridges music-love
If you love music, you have to be the one that opens doors. You have to be the one that build bridge on which everybody can be free to walk on. I know that that's my mission.
color categories should
As far as I'm concerned, no human being should be, absolutely not, put in the category of color.
community vision world
From the moment you are clear in your vision of yourself and how you project that vision in your family, your community and in the world, that's all that matters.
stupid giving weapons
Even the most racist person make a very painful racial comment, give him a smile. It's better than you take a weapon on him because he's just gonna go like, "Oh." He's just being stupid.
thinking proud define-you
Don't let anyone define you from what you live through and everything that they think you stand for. Just be proud of who you are.
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.
who-i-am refuse knows
I refuse for anyone to tell me who I am because I know who I am.
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.