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CELIA

TRACKLIST

  1. CUCALA (3:19)

  2. LA VIDA ES UN CARNAVAL (4:33)

  3. SAHARA (4:37)

  4. BAILAYEMAYA (2:54)

  5. TOROMATA (4:30)

  6. ELEGUA (3:06)

  7. QUIMBARA (4:34)

  8. BEMBACOLORA (3:44)

  9. OYADIOSA (3:27)

  10. YEMAYA (1:37)

// UNIVERSAL MUSIC FRANCE


As a child I saw Celia Cruz singing in Benin and her energy and joy changed my life. It was the first I was seeing a powerful woman performer on a stage. Her voice was percussive and her songs resonated in a mysterious way with me. Many years later, I learned she was singing the Yoruba songs that were carried out of Benin 400 years before. I felt she was a long lost sister from the other side of the world. Like me, she experienced exile from a dictatorship and she was always proud of her roots, of her African roots. In the same way I wanted to bring back Rock and Roll to Africa with my Talking Heads’ Remain In Light project, I now want to pay homage to this incredible voice and those songs that reunite with their juju and Afrobeat roots.
— Angelique Kidjo

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