Angélique Kidjo 🇧🇯 "Lonlon" 🎼 Ravel's Boléro♪ ♫

Angélique Kidjo

Angélique Kpasseloko Hinto Hounsinou Kandjo Manta Zogbin Kidjo (born July 14, 1960) is a Beninese 🇧🇯 French singer-songwriter, actress and activist noted for her diverse musical influences and creative music videos. Kidjo was born into a family of performing artists. Her father was a musician, and her mother worked as a choreographer and theatre director. Kidjo has won five Grammy Awards. She is a 2023 Polar Music Prize laureate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ang%C3%A9lique_Kidjo

"Lonlon" 🎼 "Ravel's Boléro"

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"Lonlon" mean Love in Ewe language spoken in Togo, Benin and Ghana. 

She is talking about brothers and sisters listening and dancing to love songs... She's sayings there's only one type of love is this world.  So basically saying, love has no boundaries. 

Lonlon in Ewe language mean love... or the ability to love someone. She's also saying brothers and sisters should come and see life await for them. She's pretty much signing about love, life, and happiness among all people.

"Come with me my brothers to listen to life's story... Come come and hear this... Everybody must come because it's for happiness!!!

Lonlon  🎼  Ravel's Boléro

 Angélique Kidjo

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Angélique Kidjo, née le 14 juillet 1960 à Ouidah (Dahomey, actuel Bénin), est une chanteuse béninoise et française, cinq fois lauréate des Grammy Awards et lauréate de l'Académie Charles Cros connue pour la diversité de ses influences musicales, l'originalité de ses clips et son engagement humanitaire comme ambassadrice internationale de l'UNICEF. Elle a chanté lors de la cérémonie d'ouverture des Jeux olympiques de Tokyo 2020 le 23 juillet 2021.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ang%C3%A9lique_Kidjo

Angelique Kidjo 🎺 Branford Marsalis
"Lonlon  Ravel's Boléro"

The BBC has included Kidjo in its list of the African continent's 50 most iconic figures. The Guardian has listed her as one of its Top 100 Most Inspiring Women in the World and Kidjo is the first woman to be listed among "The 40 Most Powerful Celebrities In Africa" by Forbes magazine. The Daily Telegraph in London described her as "The undisputed queen of African music" during the 2012 Olympic Games River of Music Festival. In March 2013, NPR, National Public Radio in America, called her "Africa's greatest living diva". Kidjo is listed among the "2014 Most Influential Africans" by New African magazine and Jeune Afrique. Forbes Afrique put Kidjo on the cover of their "100 most influential women" issue in 2015. 

On June 6, 2013, Kidjo was elected vice-president of the Confédération Internationale des Sociétés d´Auteurs et Compositeurs (CISAC). She now resides in New York City,^[13] where she is an occasional contributor to the New York Times. Kidjo has received Honorary Doctorates from Yale University, Berklee College of Music and Middlebury College.

Her musical influences include the Afropop, Caribbean zouk, Congolese rumba, jazz, gospel, and Latin styles; as well as her childhood idols Bella Bellow, James Brown, Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin, Jimi Hendrix, Miriam Makeba and Carlos Santana. 

She has recorded George Gershwin's "Summertime", Ravel's Boléro, Jimi Hendrix's "Voodoo Child" and the Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter", and has collaborated with Dave Matthews and the Dave Matthews Band, Kelly Price, Alicia Keys, Branford Marsalis, Ziggy Marley, Philip Glass, Peter Gabriel, Bono, Carlos Santana, John Legend, Herbie Hancock, Josh Groban, Dr John, the Kronos Quartet and Cassandra Wilson. Kidjo's hit songs include "Agolo", "We We", "Adouma", "Wombo Lombo", "Afirika", "Batonga", and her version of "Malaika". Her album Logozo is ranked number 37 in the Greatest Dance Albums of All Time list compiled by Vice Magazine's Thump web site.

Kidjo is fluent in Fon, French, Yorùbá and English, and sings in all four languages; she also has her own personal language, which includes words that serve as song titles such as "Batonga". "Malaika" is a song sung in the Swahili language. Kidjo often utilizes Benin's traditional Zilin vocal technique and jazz vocalese.

Kidjo is the recipient of the 2015 Crystal Award given by the World Economic Forum of Davos in Switzerland and has received the Ambassador Of Conscience Award from Amnesty International in 2016 She also is included in the exhibits at the National Museum of African American History that officially opened on Sept. 24, 2016 on the National Mall.

Lyrics:

* Lon Lon Vadjro - Angélique Kidjo *

https://zikiafricanmusicproject.blogspot.com/2011/07/lyrics-lon-lon-vadjro-angelique-kidjo.html

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*  Lonlon (Ravel’s Bolero) * https://genius.com/Angelique-kidjo-lonlon-ravels-bolero-lyrics

André Rieu 🎼 Boléro (Ravel)

André Rieu & the Johann Strauss Orchestra performing Ravel's Boléro live in Maastricht.

Boléro is a one-movement orchestral piece by Maurice Ravel (1875--1937). Originally composed as a ballet commissioned by Russian ballerina Ida Rubinstein, the piece, which premiered in 1928, is Ravel's most famous musical composition.

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See:

Angélique Kidjo 🇧🇯 "Lonlon 🎼 Ravel's Bolero"
https://paulcpw.blogspot.com/2017/08/lonlon-ravels-bolero-by-angelique-kidjo.html

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Angelique Kidjo ♫ Petite Fleur ♪ Ne me Quitte Pas ♪ ♫:
https://paulcpw.blogspot.com/2017/08/angelique-kidjo-petite-fleur-ne-me.html
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Boléro de Ravel - Danse Africaine de Bondy ♪♪ + ♪:
https://paulcpw.blogspot.com/2017/08/bolero-de-ravel-danse-africaine-de-bondy.html
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Glass Harp Orchestra:
https://paulcpw.blogspot.com/2016/06/glass-harp-orchestra.html

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https://paulcpw.blogspot.com

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👉  These are the stages of listening to Ravel’s Boléro ♪♪