This week's installment of Fight Song is with angeliquekidjo, who discusses her foundation and life in lockdown, gleaning survival lessons from her storied career.
— has found new ways to make the year meaningful. Joined by her husband, French musician Jean Hébrail, she has been growing her own food in her garden, working on new music , and helping the communities which need it most. She shifted the focus of her, which supports education for Beninese girls and women, to raising $25,000 to provide those girls and their communities with protective masks, hand-washing stations and radio broadcast messages about COVID-19.
The African music icon discusses her foundation and life in lockdown, gleaning survival lessons from her storied career.It’s a sabbatical year. I started gardening, which I’ve never had time to do. Looking at food growing out of the ground, you understand how lucky we are to have the Earth that we have. I have a lot of aromatic herbs; I have coriander, mint, basil, cumin, leeks, beets, celery, tomatoes, red pepper, potatoes, strawberries, blackberries and zucchini.
It was then. I was still hoping that we were going to be able to contain [the virus]. I started my 2020 tour in St. Louis, and it was packed. I was still feeling like it was a no-brainer walking into the public, high-fiving people. We’re talking about the end of February, beginning of March. We started rehearsing for the Carnegie Hall show on March 9. You pay the hotel room, you pay all the expenses, and then suddenly, boom. My husband’s dad was in a nursing home [in France].
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