Angelique Kidjo is Concert
In conjunction with the 5th annual Visionary Leadership Award, Afropop supserstar Angélique Kidjo will perform a special benefit concert at Yale in support of the Yale Africa Initiative Student Scholarships.
- Watch: Music preview and interview (YouTube)
Ms. Kidjo has won a number of music awards, including the 2008 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music for her album Djin Djin. Her newest album, Eve, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard World Music charts. In August 2008, she received Benin’s Commander of National Order of Merit for loyal services to the nation.
She will be joined on stage by Shades, Yale’s co-ed a cappella group dedicated to singing music of the Africa diaspora; The Yale Percussion Group, made up of graduate students in the School of Music; the undergraduate Yale Concert Band, fresh off a musical tour of Ghana this past summer, where they took part in numerous exchange concerts and the percussionists studied West African rhythms with Ghanaian drum masters; and the Yale Symphony Orchestra, the university’s premier undergraduate orchestra.
Related Events
- Visionary Leadership Award Benefit Luncheon
January 28, 2015