Angélique Kidjo Etches Her Name in Hollywood as First African Musician to Receive a Walk of Fame Star

Angélique Kidjo, the artist who changed how the world listens to Africa, now has a star in Hollywood

The first Black African artist to be recognized on the Walk of Fame has spent more than four decades proving that her continent’s music never needed to adapt in order to be universal

Angélique Kidjo Etches Her Name in Hollywood as First African Musician to Receive a Walk of Fame Star

On a stretch of pavement that has carried the names of legends for nearly a century, a girl who once dreamed in Cotonou, Benin, now has a star of her own, the first African musician ever to receive one. Angélique Kidjo is the woman at the centre of the honour, a five-time GRAMMY winner and […]