Singer & songwriter

Angélique Kidjo

Beninese singer with five Grammy awards, working across West African, Caribbean and jazz traditions. Born in Ouidah, Benin.

Angélique Kpasseloko Hinto Hounsinou Kandjo Manta Zogbin Kidjo is a French-Beninese musician, actress, and activist. Kidjo has won five Grammy Awards and a Polar Music Prize. She has collaborated with artists including Alicia Keys, Peter Gabriel, John Legend, Philip Glass, Bono, Yo-Yo Ma, and Burna Boy. She is the second African artist, and the first of African ethnicity, to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She performed at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony on July 23, 2021. In 2021, Time magazine included her in its list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Kidjo is fluent in five languages: Fon, French, Yorùbá, Gen (Mina) and English. She sings in all of them, and she also has her own personal language, which includes words that serve as song titles such as "Batonga". Kidjo often uses Benin's traditional Zilin vocal technique and vocalese.

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Born
1960-07-14, Ouidah, BeninA Thursday
At birth
Sun in Cancer, Moon in Aries
Nationality
France
Birth-time source
No birth time on record: Rodden X

Birth Chart

1960-07-14, Ouidah, Benin · time unknown, noon chart

Africa/Porto-Novothe zone used then

The chart

Planetary placements
BodySignDegreeMotion
SunCancer21°58′Direct
MoonAries7°40′Direct
MercuryCancer26°08′Retrograde
VenusCancer27°59′Direct
MarsTaurus17°13′Direct
JupiterSagittarius25°49′Retrograde
SaturnCapricorn14°35′Retrograde
UranusLeo19°33′Direct
NeptuneScorpio6°22′Retrograde
PlutoVirgo4°26′Direct

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