Angelique Kidjo first heard Talking Heads shortly after she fled the communist regime in her native Benin for Paris in 1983. Listening to Western popular music was like an act of treason in her home country, she says, so she remembers feeling like a kid in a candy store when discovering music in France
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Angelique Kidjo Talks Reinventing Talking Heads’ ‘Remain in Light’ on New LP
