Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Can’t say what it is, but I’m about to go through something pretty major,” Sawhney tweeted yesterday. “Wish me luck.” WOMADelaide ...

World-renowned Grammy Award winners Angélique Kidjo and Yo-Yo Ma returned to the Hearst Greek Theatre on Aug. 30, performing “Sarabande Africaine” alongside Thierry Vaton on piano, David Donatien on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “I started singing when I was six years old, and I’m grateful every day that I still get to live my passion and do what I love ...

Angelique Kidjo had to flee her home country of Benin as a young woman while it was suffering at the hands of a despotic ruler. But her brilliant creative spirit was her bridge out of the political ...

Ahead of their special performance of “Sarabande Africaine” at the Hearst Greek Theatre, globally-renowned singer Angélique Kidjo and cellist Yo-Yo Ma dialed in with The Daily Californian to talk ...

Angélique Kidjo, calling from Paris via a dodgy connection, sounded downright cheerful. Originally from the West African country of Benin, the singer capped many of her declarations with a belly laugh ...

Angelique Kidjo’s powerfully expressive voice can pull the maximum emotional voltage out of any song — show tune, rock, reggae, ballad or a traditional African number. “It doesn’t matter how hard we ...

Angélique Kidjo spent most of the past year in Paris, where she lived for almost 20 years from 1980 to the late ’90s. The multihyphenate Beninese-American music icon is usually based in New York City, ...

Vocalist Angelique Kidjo pays tribute to Celia Cruz on her new album, Celia. On Remain In Light, Kidjo uncovered a deep African influence that was only hinted at on the original. Taking on Cruz's ...

The first time African diva Angelique Kidjo performed her song-by-song version of the Talking Heads’ classic “Remain in Light,” she was headlining a sold-out show at Carnegie Hall in May 2017. She was ...

At the end of the 1970s, the Talking Heads had emerged as one of the most exciting American bands in years. But by then, they were looking to go in a radical new direction, which they found more than ...