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
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.
hate long drug
As long as music of mine is not used to preach hate, or to bash women, it's okay for me. If it doesn't promote violence against women, drugs, this and that, use it, go ahead.
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.
west east born
Africa is not just about where you are born. For me, Africa is the whole continent; from south to north, to east to west.
stories knows know-how
I'm a story teller. I really know how to tell stories of Africa.
country people political
Education is very political, because when you educate the people, then you have a country that you can't fool anymore.
people feelings use
I never use someone just because they are great musicians. I work with people who have the same kind of feeling towards the music that I do, and the subject that I'm speaking of at that time.
misery
Don't let misery bring you down.