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Spirit Rising

My Life, My Music
Harper Designerschienen am01.07.2014
Grammy Award-winning singer Anglique Kidjo is known for her electrifying voice and fearless advocacy work. In this intimate memoir, she reveals how she escaped Communist Africa to make her dreams a reality, and how shes prompting others all around the world to reach for theirs as well.Born in the West African nation of Benin, Anglique Kidjo grew up surrounded by the rich sounds, rhythms, and storytelling of traditional Beninese culture. When the Communists took over, they silenced her dynamic culture and demanded that she sing in praise of them. In Spirit Rising: My Life, My Music, Anglique reveals the details of her dangerous escape into France, and how she rose from poverty to become a Grammy Awardwinning artist and an international sensation at the top of Billboards World Albums chart. She also explains why its important to give back by sharing stories from her work as a UNICEF ambassador and as founder of the Batonga Foundation, which gives African girls access to education.Desmond Tutu has contributed the foreword to this remarkable volume; Alicia Keys has provided an introduction. Her eloquent, inspiring narrative is paired with more than one hundred colorful photographs documenting Angliques life and experiences, as well as a sampling of recipes that has sustained her on her remarkable odyssey.mehr

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KlappentextGrammy Award-winning singer Anglique Kidjo is known for her electrifying voice and fearless advocacy work. In this intimate memoir, she reveals how she escaped Communist Africa to make her dreams a reality, and how shes prompting others all around the world to reach for theirs as well.Born in the West African nation of Benin, Anglique Kidjo grew up surrounded by the rich sounds, rhythms, and storytelling of traditional Beninese culture. When the Communists took over, they silenced her dynamic culture and demanded that she sing in praise of them. In Spirit Rising: My Life, My Music, Anglique reveals the details of her dangerous escape into France, and how she rose from poverty to become a Grammy Awardwinning artist and an international sensation at the top of Billboards World Albums chart. She also explains why its important to give back by sharing stories from her work as a UNICEF ambassador and as founder of the Batonga Foundation, which gives African girls access to education.Desmond Tutu has contributed the foreword to this remarkable volume; Alicia Keys has provided an introduction. Her eloquent, inspiring narrative is paired with more than one hundred colorful photographs documenting Angliques life and experiences, as well as a sampling of recipes that has sustained her on her remarkable odyssey.
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Weitere ISBN/GTIN9780062288479
ProduktartE-Book
EinbandartE-Book
FormatEPUB
Erscheinungsjahr2014
Erscheinungsdatum01.07.2014
Seiten256 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Artikel-Nr.1805419
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Genre9201

Autor

Angélique Kidjo is a Grammy Award-winning musician, a UNICEF ambassador, and the founder of the Batonga Foundation, which gives African girls access to education. She has collaborated with artists including Carlos Santana, Peter Gabriel, Alicia Keys, Josh Groban, Branford Marsalis, and Joss Stone, and has been praised by leading political figures such as Bill Clinton, Nelson Mandela, and Desmond Tutu.

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