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Angelique Kidjo Supports World Immunization Week
Look To The Stars
By Delinda Lombardo on April 26, 2012 UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and singer-songwriter Angélique Kidjo is supporting the first-ever World Immunization Week (April 21-28), an international effort to highlight the importance of immunization.

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Angélique Kidjo: Spirit Rising
Financial Times
“Afrika” shimmers and her reading of “Redemption Song” and Miriam Makeba's “Malaika” are pugnacious, but Kidjo and Dainne Reeves drain the menace out of “Gimme Shelter”, and Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend makes this true African sound ersatz.


 
UNICEF (press release)
Ewan McGregor issues appeal for the children of the Sahel
UNICEF (press release)
Mr. McGregor, who has worked with UNICEF since 2004, joins an international roster of stars including Mia Farrow, Selena Gomez and Angélique Kidjo who are supporting UNICEF's efforts to save lives in the Sahel. “We can stop these children from dying.

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Anjelique Kidjo Chairs Celebration For Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy
Black Star News
This year's honorary chair, Angelique Kidjo, who TIME Magazine calls "Africa Premier Diva" and the Guardian lists as one of the "100 most inspiring women in the World" will serve as an ambassador to applaud Ifetayo's 23 years of dedicated service to ...


 
Summer's Pop and Jazz Festivals Load Their Lineups
New York Times
The Beninese R&B-funk singer Angélique Kidjo joins the jazz star Dianne Reeves and the gospel-jazz singer Lizz Wright in the opening-night gala, and the weeks progress to include concerts on the New Haven Green from the Grammy-winning Piedmont-region ...

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A "Toast To Freedom" with Levon Helm, Warren Haynes, Rosanne Cash, Angelique ...
Relix (blog)
The participating artists include Levon Helm, Warren Haynes, Kris Kristofferson, Carly Simon, Angelique Kidjo, Donald Fagen, Rosanne Cash, Keb Mo, Eric Burdon, Taj Mahal, Florent Pagny, Ewan McGregor, Saul Hernandez, Marianne Faithfull, Jane Birkin, ...


 
CTV.ca
New Orleans concert marks International Jazz Day
Wall Street Journal
Besides jazz, there was blues, world music, a bit of R&B and more genres represented, with performances that included Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan, Angelique Kidjo, Robert Cray, and Dee Dee Bridgewater, and appearances from Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman ...
The United Nations Of JazzNPR (blog)
Reasons to celebrate jazz aboundColumbia Daily Tribune

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