Author: Angelique Kidjo

Grammy Award-winning singer Angélique Kidjo makes a stop to speak about her intimate memoir: Spirit Rising: My Life, My Music. Listen as she reveals how she escaped Communist Africa to pursue her dreams and how she is inspiring others to do the same.

In Spirit Rising, 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 Albums chart.