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\n\tTwo things have been crucial to a restless Ang\u00e9lique Kidjo since her childhood in Benin, West Africa: diverse, universal, nuanced brands of truthful musical storytelling in all its forms, and her mother.<\/p>\n

Selling nearly four million albums worldwide, winning five Grammys, writing a bestselling autobiography, \u201cSpirit Rising,\u201d with its foreword by Desmond Tutu, and becoming the first Black African artist to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame are all just icing on a very sweet cake. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis is everything to me,\u201d she says loudly with a laugh (via Zoom) of her music, her mission and her mother, as she gesticulates wildly for punctuation at every turn. <\/p>\n

Read more Madonna Leads VMAs Nominations With 11, Followed by Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter, Ariana Grande<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tShe\u2019ll receive her star Aug. 18 at 11:30 in a ceremony at 7011 Hollywood Blvd. Audiennces can watch on walkoffame.com.<\/p>\n

Since the start of her reign as a queen of West African music (this journalist first spoke to Kidjo in 1991 when \u201cLogozo,\u201d her debut album in the U.S., was released), or now, with 2026\u2019s \u201cHope,\u201d the singer-composer has been sure to acknowledge the ongoing influence of her mom \u2014 a choreographer and theater director \u2014 with zeal.<\/p>\n

As for the universality of her hypnotic, soulful sound and her dynamic, jazzy mezzo-soprano voice, Kidjo\u2019s singing in five languages (Fon, French, Yor\u00f9b\u00e1, Gen-Mina and English) has forever been key to the funk, its frankness and her grace.<\/p>\n

Discussing \u201cHope\u2019s\u201d tour through 2027, \u201cthe stretching of my own physical boundaries\u201d and playing music in a world that, though troubled, \u201cmay be better off and more unified than we think,\u201d an energetic Kidjo talked about the need for reinvention.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow do I keep my mental health, my priorities and my values in check, and still be the person that I want to be, but evolving in this ever-changing ecosystem?\u201d Kidjo wonders.<\/p>\n

But inventing herself in the first place is what leads listeners to every magical Kidjo milestone: 1996\u2019s \u201cFifa\u201d where she first sang in English; 2007\u2019s \u201cDjin Djin,\u201d for which she won her first contemporary world music album Grammy; her back-to-back 2019 albums, \u201cRemain in Light\u201d and \u201cCelia,\u201d where she imaginatively captured the music of Talking Heads (\u201cWhen I met David Byrne, I asked if he\u2019s sure he\u2019s American as he\u2019d been speaking about my culture like he lived there forever,\u201d she says) and Celia Cruz.<\/p>\n

Her new Africana-laced R&B album, \u201cHope,\u201d with Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers, takes Kidjo to sleek pop places she\u2019s rarely visited while maintaining her earthen, conscious lyricism. Then there are the works with minimalist classical composer Philip Glass on the poetic \u201cIfe\u201d: \u201cThree Yoruba Songs\u201d and \u201cSymphony No. 12\u201d (which additionally paid tribute to David Bowie\u2019s \u201cLodger\u201d) that Kidjo called \u201cmy greatest aesthetic challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n

If she goes back to the start of her career, then before that to her childhood on stage at her mother\u2019s Theatre du Benet company at age 6, Kidjo admits that \u201cmy values are the same values as always. They\u2019re about me telling a compelling story, my compelling story\u2026 humanity stories,\u201d all filled with the core values passed down to Kidjo by her parents.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t come up with funny excuses,\u201d she says. \u201cWhen you do something wrong, you stand for it. If you deserve respect, give respect back. And if you deserve to be loved, you have to start loving yourself to be able to see the other person important to you. \u2026 My mom made me this person that I am by making me think about how my words can hurt. Mom always used to say a word is like an egg. When it falls, you can\u2019t put it back. When you hurt somebody with your words, it stays. It\u2019s pain. The pain you inflict on somebody\u2019s soul with words has consequences for you too. Because when you put that bad stuff in the universe, it comes back changed. You might not like that change, and you don\u2019t choose the time when it comes back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thinking about such consequences while living and thriving among her family (seven boys, three girls) during childhood, Kidjo was blessed with being loved and seen and given the opportunity and the freedom to speak freely and be herself.<\/p>\n

Those elements are the very core of her lifelong values, aesthetically, spiritually and humanistically.
\u201cI have been told by my uncles and aunties in the village that I was that child that always asked all the questions and never got enough answers,\u201d Kidjo says, laughing.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s important to note that as much gravitas and import that Kidjo placed upon her mother\u2019s words and questions, there was a playful life lesson to be had between mother and daughter. Like having her mom, until the time of her passing during COVID-19, pushing Ang\u00e9lique to eat, nagging her to gain weight.
\u201cShe told me that I needed to eat hamburgers in America, or to come home so that she could put some flesh on my bones,\u201d Kidjo remembers.<\/p>\n

Earlier in their relationship, there was the back-and-forth between mother and child when it came to 6-year-old Kidjo demanding to play lead roles in her mother\u2019s plays (\u201cWhy can\u2019t I be the little girl that\u2019s singing and doing all these things? I knew all the stuff by heart\u201d), to being frightened when that same lead princess suddenly contracted malaria, and young Ang\u00e9lique had to go on.<\/p>\n

\u201cMom grabbed my ankle and I said, \u2018Nah, I ain\u2019t going on.\u2019 Until she then put the costume on me and shot me on stage. I was just shaking like crazy. But I said to myself, \u2018The heck with it. Just go for it.\u2019 So, I start singing. Then I did all the crazy stuff that I do. Move around. Singing and playing the part. Then I finished, walked back, and suddenly, ovation. And my mom said, \u2018You gotta go back.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Young Ang\u00e9lique went back.<\/p>\n

But the child Kidjo turned into the teenage Kidjo, seeing success on national radio singing Miriam Makeba songs. That same teen sensation left West Africa due to troubles from its dictatorship, and moved to Paris under cover of night and a clandestine air flight. Once in Paris, Kidjo picked up where she left off, playing packed pop and jazz clubs and making African-French recordings until signing with Island and becoming an international sensation \u2014 all of which is reminiscent (save for secret night flights) of the trajectory of a Taylor Swift or a Sabrina Carpenter.<\/p>\n

What did it mean for Kidjo, then and now, to be a young woman growing up in the public eye in pop music?<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to be aware,\u201d she insists. \u201cYou have to be strong. You have to remind yourself that there\u2019s always gonna be somebody that\u2019s gonna say something nasty about you, gonna drag you into the mud. You can\u2019t allow that. \u2026 You also can\u2019t be the person who wants somebody to feel miserable for us to feel better. My mom said to me all the time, \u2018Don\u2019t be that. Don\u2019t be that miserable person.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Kidjo quickly told a tale about being a successful 12-year-old star, and coming back from school one afternoon with a crowd of people popping out of nowhere.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoys and girls were spitting on me, calling me prostitute,\u201d Kidjo says. \u201cWhen I told my grandmother and my mother, they cleaned me up, and said \u2018Do not let anyone define who you wanna be.\u2019 You were talking about the \u2018Logozo\u2019 album right? I can remember, then, how the stylist who was hired told the record company, \u2018Why are you calling a stylist to style an African girl? Don\u2019t they walk naked in their countries?\u2019 And, I was like, \u2018Really? Let me show you what modernism looks like in my country.\u2019 And I went out and bought that catsuit that is on the album cover \u2014 beautiful, no? I was fearless. No one could stop me.\u201d
Does she still have that iconic zebra-print catsuit from \u201cLogozo\u2019s\u201d cover?<\/p>\n

\u201cOh yeah, I do. My daughter wore it for Halloween once.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mothers and daughters and their bonds: their impact and import will never cease for Kidjo. There\u2019s a reason her nickname is \u201cMama Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her \u201cEve\u201d album of 2014 is dedicated to women, young and old, of her homeland. The Afrobeat-driven \u201cMother Nature\u201d from 2021 is ripe with the vision of gentle feminine wisdom while 2019\u2019s \u201cCelia\u201d sings praises to Cuba\u2019s queen of salsa. And on the tracks \u201cAye Kan\u201d and \u201cNo Stopping Us,\u201d on \u201cHope,\u201d the spirit of Kidjo\u2019s mother lives on in her words and image.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn mourning, I was in shambles because I never thought that my mom gonna leave us so quickly,\u201d Kidjo says quietly. \u201cThe day before she died, we had a wonderful conversation. Talking about music, about songs, this rhythm for that part. My mom was always looking for music all around the world, singing so many different songs to me, always giving me stuff to think about when it comes to music. If I was in front of this rhythm, what will I do? My mom was that person. She was still saying how people commented on how she don\u2019t feed that kid, I\u2019m so skinny. As we finished the conversation, she said, \u2018Before you put me in the grave, you gotta sing my life after me. Make me that promise.\u2019 And I\u2019m telling her, \u2018I\u2019m not sure I\u2019m gonna keep that promise. In my grief, I might not be able to.\u2019 Now, remember, I\u2019m taught that before you promise something, think about the commitment that you\u2019re about to take. If you can\u2019t do it, say no,\u201d she says. \u201cSo, as I\u2019m mourning, this is what I\u2019m thinking to myself: How can I make the world discover her principles, those values that my mother gave all of us, even as we\u2019re living in different parts of the world, being who we are?\u201d<\/p>\n

Kidjo\u2019s response to keeping that promise shines through \u2014 effortlessly, sonorously \u2014 on the 21st century African diasporic R&B of \u201cHope,\u201d songs of empowerment against authoritarianism such as \u201cBando,\u201d and lyrics dedicated to \u201copening each other\u2019s eyes, that\u2019s the mission.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHope was my mom\u2019s favorite word; she used to say, \u2018Your day starts with hope, your life starts with hope.\u2019 Without hope, there\u2019s nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Making that promise another element of her responsibility to herself and to the world comes through in Kidjo\u2019s consideration of becoming the first Black African artist to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, it is still like I\u2019m in a dream. But you know what? My parents always used to say, \u2018You have to dream big. Otherwise, shut up, don\u2019t talk about it.\u2019 So, for me, this is a door being open, on American soil, to welcome in artists from around the globe. And I am the first Black African to have this honor. For me, it becomes a responsibility. How do we sustain this and get the people that give me this honor to understand that I\u2019m just the first one, that the door must stay open for all the trailblazers in Africa, Latin America, Europe, wherever in the world that should be there. Let\u2019s keep that door open. Let\u2019s remind ourselves that when we have something and we share it, that we have more to give.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ang\u00e9lique Kidjo\u2019s mother would be proud.<\/p>\n

Read more Nonprofit Production Waterwell Doubles Funding for Unseen Iran Grants to Artists Representing the Diaspora in Film, TV, Theater and More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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