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...I realised that all the quartets I knew were written by four guys who lived in or near one city in Austria,” says David Harrington....
...David Adedeji Adeleke, to use Davido’s real name, was back at a sold-out O2 Arena at the weekend....
...Now the Beninese singer Angélique Kidjo and the French-Lebanese trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf — also a meeting of Africa and the Middle East — have constructed a concept album around the queen’s riddles....
...A growing cohort of institutional investors has raised concerns about plastics and the damage to the world’s oceans, especially after David Attenborough’s Blue Planet television series....
...Angélique Kidjo’s set was billed as her reclamation of the 1980 Talking Heads album Remain in Light — David Byrne and Brian Eno’s new wave imagining of Afrobeat — as west African music....
...The Kérékou regime provoked some performers, notably the young Angélique Kidjo, to flee the country for Paris, but Ferry found a powerful supporter in the new government....
...Indeed, Angélique Kidjo, who has been booked to perform her west African reclamation of Talking Heads’ album Remain in Light, has released three albums since then....
...In the liner notes of her new record Angélique Kidjo makes a virtue of necessity: it is hard to see how the album could have been recorded over the past year that required journeys to or from France, Luxembourg...
...Angélique Kidjo sweeps off the Eurostar and into the restaurant of an expensive London hotel....
...On République Amazone, the Irish-French producer Doctor L — who has triumphed with the Congolese bands Mbongwana Star and Bantou Mentale — submerged the women’s voices, including Angélique Kidjo’s, in a...
...Kidjo and her arranger David Donatien both play up the African roots of salsa and uproot them....
...They were sung by the Beninese singer Angélique Kidjo, a previous collaborator with Glass on a 2014 adaptation of Yoruba songs....
...There is a pan-African flavour: for “Itarafo”, which celebrates a mother for insisting on keeping her child when moving to a new household, Keita is joined by Angélique Kidjo and by the Franco-African rapper...
...In the early 1980s, in exile in Paris, Angélique Kidjo heard a song that reminded her of Africa: “Once in a Lifetime”, from Talking Heads’ Remain in Light album, which fused African polyrhythms with jerky...
...“At one level it’s very macho — ‘I don’t want a woman who doesn’t know how to cook and clean’ — and then there’s the other level where it’s [about] Angelique Coles.”...
...Basant — Punjabi for the season of early spring — sees them backing a range of singers, notably the Benin diva Angelique Kidjo on “Ewa Ka Lo Dia Yé”....
...Les Amazones D’Afrique République Amazone (Real World) Faced with producing a collaborative album by west Africa’s most celebrated women singers, from Angelique Kidjo to Mariam Doumbia and Mamani Keita...
...Angélique Kidjo’s albums tend to lacquered slickness, but her live charisma is measured in megawatts....
...David Honigmann celticconnections.com, 0141 353 8000 Photograph: Corbis...
...Angelique Kidjo Eve (429 Records)...
...Angélique Kidjo Spirit Rising (Wrasse)...
...The pillars are concerts by Angélique Kidjo, by Oumou Sangaré and Béla Fleck, and by Taj Mahal (topped off with an all-star finale with Maal himself, celebrating the music of Mory Kanté)....
...“There is no event in the year that has more eyeballs on it that are actively engaged and tuned in,” says Angelique Krembs, vice-president of marketing for Pepsi....
...David Jones concurs: “Still need the Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands and (not to be confused) the Virgin Islands....
...It’s as if, instead of battling David, Goliath adopted him, and his cousins and aunts and uncles too, and then they all sat down to dinner together — with the big guy at the head of the table, of course....
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