Angélique Kidjo & Ibrahim Maalouf
Biographie Angélique Kidjo & Ibrahim Maalouf
Angelique Kidjo
Five-time Grammy Award winner Angélique Kidjo is one of the greatest artists in international music today, a creative force with sixteen albums to her name. Time Magazine has called her "Africa's premier diva", and named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world for 2021. The BBC has included her in its list of the continent's 50 most iconic figures, and in 2011 The Guardian listed her as one of their Top 100 Most Inspiring Women in the World. Forbes Magazine has ranked Angelique as the first woman in their list of the Most Powerful Celebrities in Africa. She is the recent recipient of the prestigious 2015 Crystal Award given by the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the 2016 Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award, and the 2018 German Sustainability Award.
Ibrahim Maalouf
Hailed as a “virtuoso” by The New York Times, trumpet superstar Ibrahim Maalouf has spent his career crossing borders and blurring genres, mixing jazz, pop, classical, electronic, Middle Eastern, and African influences into an explosive, cross-cultural swirl. Born in the midst of a deadly civil war, Maalouf escaped Beirut with his family as a child and spent his formative years in France, where he first fell in love with music’s power to transcend race and language. After winning a string of prestigious classical competitions, he began composing his own critically acclaimed work, which soon made him a household name in France, where he sold out the country’s largest concert venue, the Accor Arena. Over the course of more than a dozen albums, Maalouf would go on to perform in more than 40 countries, be scouted by Quincy Jones, appear on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, raise millions for charity, and collaborate with everyone from Wynton Marsalis and Jon Batiste to Josh Groban and Sting. In 2021, Maalouf performed in front of the Eiffel Tower on Bastille Day for an estimated six million viewers.
