Spirit Rising: my life, my music
The autobiography of Angelique Kidjo
by Angelique Kidjo, Rachel Wenrick.
Foreword by Desmond Tutu.
Introduction by Alicia Keys.
℗ 2014 Harper Collins
“In Africa’s new morning… Angélique Kidjo is the warmth in that rising sun.”
In Spirit Rising: My Life, My Music, Angélique reveals the details of her dangerous escape into France, and how she rose from poverty to become a Grammy Award-winning artist and an international sensation at the top of Billboard's World Album chart.
Angélique's eloquent, inspiring narrative is paired with more than one hundred colorful photographs documenting her life and experiences, as well as sampling of recipes that has sustained her on her remarkable odyssey.
