Angélique Kidjo

Since rising to international success with the release of her chart-topping 1991 album Logozo, West African singer Angélique Kidjo has become a fixture of global music, pairing her unique multilingual fusion of Afrobeat, pop, jazz, reggae, and various African traditions with collaborators who span multiple genres of music, from Philip Glass and the Kronos Quartet to Peter Gabriel, Alicia Keys, Dr. John, and Branford Marsalis. After leaving her native Benin for Paris, Kidjo recorded a string of critically acclaimed albums on Island Records in the '90s, followed by an ambitious ...