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African star receives AFRIMA Trophies

The Grammy award winning singer gets her trophies from the continental music award organization.

Beninese multi award winning singer and songwriter, Angelique Kidjo, has said that she is especially honoured when award projects on the continent recognise her with rewards for music excellence.

The Savoy Records star artiste made this declaration recently in Cotonou, the capital of Republic Du Benin during a ceremony where she was presented with two trophies for Best Female Artiste West Africa and Best African Contemporary awarded at the 2014 All Africa Music Awards, AFRIMA, which held on Saturday, December 27, 2014in Lagos, Nigeria.

The AFRIMA trophies were presented to the legendary African singer by the Minister of Culture and Tourism, Republic du Benin, Monsieur Jean-Michel Abimbola, while AFRIMA Country Director, Republic du Benin, Monsieur Richmir Totah represented the International Committee of AFRIMA at the event witnessed by Angelique Kidjo’s family members and held in the Ministry of Culture, Republic du Benin.

Clutching her trophies with delight, Ms. Kidjo, whose ever evolving legacy as a music force on Africa has also earned her two Grammy Awards, the latest won at the 2015 Grammy held on Sunday,February 8,2014 said: “I have received a lot of awards and trophies in my career, but I am honoured and proud when it comes from my fellow Africans who recognise my merits and award me this prestigious trophies. Thank you to AFRIMA”.

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Music pundits around the world have hailed Angelique Kidjo’s 2014 release, the 13-track album ‘’ for which she won the AFRIMA trophies and 2015 Grammy Award as a career defining work for its ‘melodically rich and rhythmically powerful expressions of female empowerment’.

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