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World Music Portraits
The portrait of Angelique Kidjo, known as "the African Piaf" follows her on her return to her West African home country of Benin after being away for thirteen years. Mixed with performances from a homecoming concert in Cotonou and informal visits with mentors from her homeland, the film looks at the traditions, colors, sounds and rhythms of Benin which from the core of her ever evolving musical fusion of reggae, samba, funk, gospel and zouk. Angelique takes us to voodoo priests, the ancestral home were she grew up, the slave trade embarkation port called point of no return, the Temple of Pythons, and markets were women rule in Benin's matriarchal society. And Regardless of how many other musical and cultural forces we hear in her music, we have a better appreciation for the African sole at it's heart.
Includes performances of some of Angelique's most popular songs- Agolo, Malaika, Shango, The Sound of the Drums, her version of Summertime and much more!
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