The godmother of world music Angélique Kidjo, 61, on girl talk with Grace Jones and why Black Lives Matter means we have all failed.
The godmother of world music Angélique Kidjo, 61, on girl talk with Grace Jones and whyI try! I never want to confine myself to a genre. All music comes from Africa and I’ve felt comfortable in all music. Doing music is the way of expressing my universality.I love all music. They have things to say in different ways. The thing that I try to avoid is to judge people’s work. You might not like it, it’s not your taste, fine!You’re coming to Grace Jones’s Meltdown festival.
The fact that I have a studio at home has been really useful during the lockdowns because I could do music at leisure without a deadline and go to the studio in my PJs. Probably. I’ve been working on this for the past 15 years, pretty much, and it wasn’t easy to find a writer until a producer of the piece said, ‘Let’s ask your daughter to write a one-page.’How did you feel aboutFor us to be in the 21st century talking about Black Lives Matter means that we have failed. Completely.