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Kidjo's first international album Parakou, first released in 1989, was the beginning of a series of collaborations with producer and composer Jean Hébrail and featured Jasper van't Hof. In 2000 she was signed in New York by Columbia Records, for which label she recorded two albums.Īlbums by Angélique Kidjo Parakou She recorded four albums for Island until Blackwell's departure from the label.
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She was then 'discovered' in Paris by Island Records founder Chris Blackwell, who signed her in 1991. By the end of the 1980s, she had become one of the most popular live performers in Paris and recorded a solo album called Parakou for the Open Jazz Label. Three Pili Pili studio albums followed: Jakko (1987), Be In Two Minds (1988, produced by Marlon Klein) and Hotel Babo (1990). In 1985, she became the front singer of Jasper van 't Hof's Euro-African jazz/rock band Pili Pili. She started out as a backup singer in local bands.
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While working various day jobs to pay for her tuition, Kidjo studied music at the CIM, a reputable jazz school in Paris where she met musician and producer Jean Hebrail, with whom she has composed most of her music and whom she married in 1987. JSTOR ( September 2019) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Contentious material about living people that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately. This section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources.
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Continuing political conflicts in Benin prevented her from being an independent artist in her own country and led her to relocate to Paris in 1983. The success of the album allowed her to tour all over West Africa. It featured the songs "Ninive", "Gbe Agossi" and a tribute to the singer Bella Bellow, one of her role models. She recorded the album Pretty with the Cameroonian producer Ekambi Brilliant and her brother Oscar. She started singing in her school band, Les Sphinx and found success as a teenager with her adaptation of Miriam Makeba's "Les Trois Z", which played on national radio. By the time she was six, Kidjo was performing with her mother's theatre troupe, giving her an early appreciation for traditional music and dance. She grew up listening to Beninese traditional music, Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela, James Brown, Manu Dibango, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Fela Kuti, Stevie Wonder, Osibisa, and Santana. Her father is from the Fon people of Ouidah and her mother from the Yoruba people.