Okan bale angelique kidjo biography
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Song Info for Angelique Kidjo's Oremi
"Voodoo Child (Slight Return)": This is the album's first single and a tribute from an African voodoo child to an American voodoo child, Jimi Hendrix. The track injects Angelique Kidjo's vibrant energy into the guitar god's juicy '60s funk �especially those jubilant, yelping arias. But Kidjo wisely sidesteps the original's searing six-string passages. "The first time I heard 'Voodoo Chile' was seven years ago," says Kidjo. "I was in Paris, listening to Sting's live album, where he made that cover of 'Little Wing,' with a Beninese friend of mine born in France. I said, 'Wow! This song of Sting is great!' He said, 'Are you crazy? It's not a Sting song; it's a Jimi Hendrix song!' I listened to the real version of 'Little Wing,' 'Purple Haze,' 'Castles Made Of Sand,' and 'Voodoo Chile,' and from the moment he put on 'Voodoo Chile,' I couldn't move. He asked, 'What happened to you?' I said, 'This song is calling me somehow.' If one of the biggest rock'n'roll stars can call himself a voodoo chile in the '70s, he somehow felt that the way he plays came from far away. And the lightning behind what he plays! That's why I didn't have guitar in my version of 'Voodoo Chile.' No one can play that guitar for me, so my tri
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Black Ivory Soul
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