Angélique Kidjo’s Remain in Light

Angélique Kidjo is a Grammy Award-winning Beninese singer-songwriter and activist noted for her diverse musical influences and creative music videos. Angélique Kidjo grew up in Ouidah, Benin, a country in West Africa that sits snugly between Togo and Nigeria. She was born into a musical family, her mother is a choreographer and director of a theater group, her brothers are instrumentalists and at the age of six she was singing and dancing in her mother’s company and later joined her brothers’ group, the Kidjo Brothers Band, where she sang a variety of Benin-style songs.