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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2019 - One Hundred and Twenty Fifth Season - LATE NIGHT Prom 16: Angélique Kidjo
Performance Date30 July 2019
Performance DayTuesday
Performance Time22:15
Main PerformersAngélique Kidjo - vocal
Orchestra or BandBand (nine piece)
Performance NotesDescribed as ‘the undisputed queen of African music’, three-time Grammy Award-winner Angélique Kidjo makes her Proms debut with her nine-piece band in a late-night tribute to the celebrated salsa songstress Celia Cruz.

Kidjo grew up in Benin, West Africa, listening to salsa and found Celia Cruz a huge inspiration. She later discovered that much of Cruz’s music was inspired by Yoruba traditional songs that migrated from Benin to the Americas with the slave workers.

Kidjo here reinvents these songs in the Afrobeat and juju styles of West Africa, reflecting their true origins.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2019/),
Programme (RAHE/1/2019/),
Mini Guide (RAHE/6/2019/31),
Handbill (RAHE/6/2019/32),
Digital Photographs,
Posters (RAHE/2/2019/)
Ticket Prices£7.50-£105, £6 gallery and arena standing
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/2y92YNT2ULW4w
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2019/40BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts - Proms Guide19 July-14 September 2019
RAHE/2/2019/48BBC Proms 2019 - Proms 1-4719 July-23 August 2019
RAHE/6/2019/31BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2019 - One Hundred and Twenty Fifth Season Mini-Guide19 July - 14 September 2019
RAHE/6/2019/32BBC Proms - Late Nights25 July - 10 September 2019
RAHE/1/2019/55BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2019 - One Hundred and Twenty Fifth Season - LATE NIGHT Prom 16: Angélique Kidjo30 July 2019
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work11719BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2019 - One Hundred and Twenty Fifth Season 75
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/5472Kidjo; Angélique (1960-); Beninoise singer-songwriter, activist
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