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ANGELIQUE KIDJO & FRIENDS: SPIRIT RISING
The first ever DVD of Angelique Kidjo's legendary live performance


See why Time Magazine calls Angelique Kidjo “Africa’s premier diva.” In this 90 minute special, taped at the WGBH Studios, Angelique pays tribute to her homeland and the richness and beauty of African culture, as she knew it growing up. With the help of an intimate group of guest artists, including longtime friends Josh Groban, Dianne Reeves, Branford Marsalis, Ezra Koenig, dancers from the award-winning Broadway show FELA!, the Kuumba Choir, the Borromeo String Quartet and a horn section from Berklee College. Kidjo communicates loud and clear how African music, then and now, has retained a universal spirit and appeal.


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Angelique Kidjo & Friends: Spirit Rising
DVD & CD (include bonus material)


Tracklist:

  • Summertime
  • Pearls (with Josh Groban)
  • Monfe Ran E / Baby I Love You
    (with Dianne Reeves)
  • Move On Up (with Branford Marsalis)
  • Malaika
  • Redemption Song
  • Batonga
  • I Think Ur A Contra (with Ezra Koenig)
  • Gimme Shelter (with Dianne Reeves)
  • Lonlon / Ravel’s Bolero (with Branford Marsalis)
  • Afirika
  • Tumba

BONUS FEATURES:
- Five bonus songs: Atcha Houn, Kelele, Senamou, Agolo, and N’yin Wan Nou We
- Bonus interview with Angelique Kidjo
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"Any Kidjo performance is always inflated by her natural exuberance, and this quality is carried across by the recording. If ever a festival is flagging, Kidjo can reinvigorate its crowds. Afrika and Agolo are the best-known songs from her old repertoire, and they appear here in sleekly dashing form.The prime focus is the songs themselves, and Kidjo’s always absolutely central vocal, invariably as rhythmic and punchy as the surrounding drum work."
                  BBC Review by Martin Longley


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