大象传媒

Lopa Kothari meets Angelique Kidjo, who has been a star singer in African music for more than four decades. In this reflection on her life and music, Angelique recalls early influences such as Miriam Makeba and the Togo singer Bella Bellow, and introduces tracks from her early albums from the nineteen-eighties and nineties. She remembers leaving Benin to escape the political restrictions there, then returning later for inspiration for her album Djin Djin. She is a beacon for younger African musicians, and she talks about her recent collaboration with Nigerian artist Burna Boy. A five-time Grammy winner, earlier this year she received the prestigious Polar Music Prize as ' one of the greatest singer-songwriters in international music.'