Angelique Kidjo: Africa’s Premier Diva
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
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Music Is an Essential Part of Our Being
Music is an essential part of our being, and he has to understand it. That's a different mind set from the western world. And us in africa, it's all about the instinct. We are fed with that. Even when somebody passed away, we sing the person to the grave. Every time we bring the drums out, whatever the circumstances, ie can be baptism. You as a some peple make a comman thing that i lost my soul because i was dancing. I'm like your mam just dying o having fun," she says.
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