{"id":80698,"date":"2021-05-25T13:51:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T11:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/angelique-kidjo-salif-keita-mr-eazi\/"},"modified":"2021-05-25T15:48:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T13:48:26","slug":"angelique-kidjo-salif-keita-mr-eazi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/angelique-kidjo-salif-keita-mr-eazi\/","title":{"rendered":"Ang\u00e9lique Kidjo, Mr Eazi and Salif Keita sing to the beauty of Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Beninese icon, Nigerian upstart and Malian legend unite around the single &#8220;Africa, One Of A Kind,&#8221; a cut from Kidjo\u2019s album, <em>Mother Nature<\/em>. <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/angelique-kidjo\/\">Ang\u00e9lique Kidjo<\/a> is one of today\u2019s African icons. Praised by many media outlets, from the BBC to the New York Times to Paris Match, she is known for her commitment to fighting injustice as an international ambassador for UNICEF. Here, she joins the young Nigerian star Mr. Eazi and the Malian veteran Salif Keita for &#8220;Africa, One Of A Kind.&#8221;&nbsp;  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The founder of emPawa Africa sings: &#8220;<em>I will be here to save you, your superman flies for you, because you are one of a kind, I&#8217;ll always have you on my mind, near or far, the others must be blind, to not see how special you are, you are Africa.<\/em>&#8221; Accompanied by dancers dressed in traditional outfits, in Antokpa, Benin, the three artists sway to the rhythm of the track, constituting a true declaration of pan-African love. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pre-order <em>Mother Nature<\/em> before June 18, via <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (s\u2019ouvre dans un nouvel onglet)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.universalmusic.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\">Universal Music<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out Ang\u00e9lique Kidjo, Mr Eazi and Salif Keita in our Songs of the Week playlist on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (s\u2019ouvre dans un nouvel onglet)\" href=\"https:\/\/spoti.fi\/2Pz0eyg\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (s\u2019ouvre dans un nouvel onglet)\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/30zVbUA\" target=\"_blank\">Deezer<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ee535ffb-ang%C3%A9lique-kidjo-min-1010x1010.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-80644\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Beninese icon, Nigerian upstart and Malian legend unite around the single &#8220;Africa, One Of A Kind,&#8221; a cut from Kidjo\u2019s album, Mother Nature. Ang\u00e9lique Kidjo is one of today\u2019s African icons. Praised by many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":80651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[701,1324,1103,692,27,39148],"location":[7888,8132,8172],"yst_prominent_words":[9752,39145,39144,8403,9088,8528,39176,8996,39147,39146,8402,8435,9474,8506,10091,8400,8543,8438,8545,28610],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80698"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=80698"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=80698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}