1 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:02,600 Speaker 1: A podcast playground. 2 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:11,200 Speaker 2: I'm Buzznight, the host of Taking a Walk Music History 3 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:15,240 Speaker 2: on Foot. On this episode, we have an artist that 4 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:22,599 Speaker 2: oozes joy with her music, her sincerity, and her activism. 5 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:25,400 Speaker 1: She's a five time Grammy Award winner. 6 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:31,120 Speaker 2: Her work includes amazing collaborations with artists such as Peter Gabriel, 7 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:38,880 Speaker 2: Carlos Santana, Alicia Keys, Branford, Marsalis, David Bowie, Lou Reed, 8 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:44,519 Speaker 2: Dave Matthews, among others. She's been named Woman of the 9 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:47,960 Speaker 2: Year by Forbes magazine. She's been called one of the 10 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:50,839 Speaker 2: most inspiring women in the world. 11 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:54,000 Speaker 1: Her name is Angelie Kidjoe. 12 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:59,280 Speaker 2: The new afro pop series from American public Television bows 13 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:02,280 Speaker 2: the Queen Joe, and we welcome her to Taking a 14 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:03,760 Speaker 2: Walk next. 15 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:10,640 Speaker 1: Hi, Angelie, how are you. I'm excellent, I'm speaking to you. 16 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:21,959 Speaker 2: I would like to congratulate you on the triumphant release 17 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:26,600 Speaker 2: of the Afropop series and welcome to Taking a Walk. 18 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:28,480 Speaker 3: Thanks for having me. 19 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:31,959 Speaker 1: You are extremely humble. 20 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:36,880 Speaker 2: How does it feel being celebrated via this special series. 21 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:43,480 Speaker 3: Well, it's kind of it's kind of a homebling experience 22 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:47,199 Speaker 3: because I don't want to take credit for the career 23 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:51,760 Speaker 3: that I have without being tribute and thanking my parents 24 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:54,960 Speaker 3: for allowing me to go to school and to have 25 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:58,040 Speaker 3: a career at the same time. And that has been 26 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:03,040 Speaker 3: the thing that defines my commitment to do the best 27 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:07,680 Speaker 3: I can whatever I do. And also the passion of 28 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 3: the director of the movie. She has such a big 29 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:15,320 Speaker 3: passion for the story of my life and dedicate so 30 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:18,600 Speaker 3: much time to it, and I can't thank her enough 31 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:21,959 Speaker 3: for trying to do the best she can also to 32 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:26,560 Speaker 3: make the story. I mean, it's so complicated and it's 33 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:29,680 Speaker 3: just a story that is still on going on because 34 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:32,440 Speaker 3: I'm still alive, and I hope I could do more 35 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:35,520 Speaker 3: with my work to empower more people in the world 36 00:02:35,639 --> 00:02:39,240 Speaker 3: and try to create a world in which it's easier 37 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:40,560 Speaker 3: to live on of us together. 38 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 2: I understand. You continue to travel the world, and you know, 39 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:51,720 Speaker 2: once you arrive into a new spot or a familiar place, 40 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:57,400 Speaker 2: you get to your hotel and get yourself situated. 41 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 1: At that point, what is it you do right after that? 42 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 3: I go to the city. 43 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:04,480 Speaker 1: I walk. 44 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:08,919 Speaker 3: I walk to see the people, how how they live 45 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 3: in their lives, and to also discover new places. You 46 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:15,400 Speaker 3: can't discover new places sitting in your in your hotel room, 47 00:03:15,639 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 3: and when you're you're touring musicians, that's that's that's what 48 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:23,200 Speaker 3: you do because you're so tired that you don't have 49 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:28,320 Speaker 3: the energy to to to to discover. And if I 50 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:32,320 Speaker 3: sit too long in one place, I just my brain 51 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 3: needs to function. So when I check into my hotel, 52 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:37,760 Speaker 3: I will settle in my room and then I go 53 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:40,720 Speaker 3: around and walk and walk and see what which what 54 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:44,680 Speaker 3: people eat, and I'll eat local food or I will 55 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:47,760 Speaker 3: talk to people. Sometimes I walk into the store and 56 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:49,600 Speaker 3: people look at me, say I usually they're gonna thing, 57 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:52,200 Speaker 3: and then I start talking to people, start knowing people 58 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:55,520 Speaker 3: and invite them to the concert. It's it's important for 59 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:59,600 Speaker 3: me to to recognect with humanity when I get a 60 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:03,080 Speaker 3: plane after hours and hours and to see really people 61 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:05,400 Speaker 3: that live in the city that I'm gonna play in 62 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:06,520 Speaker 3: and before leave. 63 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 2: What are some of your favorite places that you've recently 64 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:10,720 Speaker 2: taken a. 65 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:14,160 Speaker 3: Walk all of them. I started in the southern part 66 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:17,600 Speaker 3: of France this time around, and I've at everywhere I go. 67 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:21,440 Speaker 3: I was in the Hamburg for a week at the 68 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:25,480 Speaker 3: beginning of the month of March. I was the creator 69 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:29,400 Speaker 3: of the season twenty twenty twenty four and I created 70 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:32,400 Speaker 3: ten concerts, so it's a lot of work. And the 71 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:35,680 Speaker 3: first two days I was free, so I would go. 72 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:39,120 Speaker 3: I would just like go to the city walk and 73 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:43,920 Speaker 3: drink or water or buy juice or I mean it 74 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:48,159 Speaker 3: just just walked to the Strain city station. Also it 75 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:50,760 Speaker 3: was a little like fifteen minute walk for my hotel 76 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:55,120 Speaker 3: across the river. I just need to see people. I 77 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:58,080 Speaker 3: just need to talk to people, and also practice my 78 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:01,320 Speaker 3: Germany because I've learned I've thirty German for five years, 79 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:04,080 Speaker 3: and to see how my brain is functioning when it 80 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:05,480 Speaker 3: comes to speaking different languages. 81 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:11,080 Speaker 2: Activism is so vital to your mission Women's rights, uh, 82 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:18,240 Speaker 2: climate equality. Who was the first person that influenced you 83 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:21,159 Speaker 2: and exposed you to activism. 84 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:24,600 Speaker 3: My mom and dad. My mom when I was eight 85 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:29,520 Speaker 3: years old. She had a group of people of you, 86 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 3: of women and mothers in when I was in the sixties. 87 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:39,839 Speaker 3: And they will every weekend go walk and take them 88 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:44,480 Speaker 3: to sing songs in which they're asking for women's right 89 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:47,560 Speaker 3: to decide who they want for, how they use the body, 90 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,600 Speaker 3: the right to vote, that women are not just are 91 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:54,640 Speaker 3: not things possession, we are human being. We want our 92 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:57,600 Speaker 3: right to be respected. I mean, I was singing those stuff. 93 00:05:57,640 --> 00:05:59,839 Speaker 3: I was eight years old, I did not even realize 94 00:05:59,880 --> 00:06:05,440 Speaker 3: the importance of it. And in the sixties, eight years 95 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:08,840 Speaker 3: old and here I am almost sixty three and were 96 00:06:08,839 --> 00:06:12,320 Speaker 3: still talking about women's right. And my question is what 97 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:15,120 Speaker 3: is wrong with men? What thread do we pose to 98 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:19,560 Speaker 3: men that we have to ask for something that is 99 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:22,279 Speaker 3: due to us. We have the right to live in 100 00:06:22,279 --> 00:06:25,280 Speaker 3: a world where we are not just accessially, we are 101 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:28,479 Speaker 3: not just still as mothers. We cannot just be defined 102 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:30,600 Speaker 3: by being mothers. We need to have a career, even 103 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:34,760 Speaker 3: with your mother. Why having a child or children have 104 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:38,480 Speaker 3: to be a punishment. So for me, with my father 105 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:43,520 Speaker 3: being such a feminist, that allowed my mom had thin kids. 106 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 3: I mean we have we attend children. She has fourteen 107 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:49,640 Speaker 3: pregnancy and my father never stops her for doing anything 108 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:52,359 Speaker 3: she wants to do. Because my father says, she's my partner, 109 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:55,600 Speaker 3: she's my better house. I can't speak on her behalf. 110 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:57,919 Speaker 3: She has to be independent and free for me to 111 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:00,400 Speaker 3: be able to know that I am giving with the 112 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:04,120 Speaker 3: human beings. She's not my thing. So that's what I 113 00:07:04,279 --> 00:07:08,920 Speaker 3: learned from my father. So I don't understand were into 114 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:12,400 Speaker 3: twenty person is talking about women's right and that doesn't 115 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:15,960 Speaker 3: bother men to say it, to just take it that well, 116 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 3: they have the right and nothing matter. You can't tell 117 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:20,640 Speaker 3: me you love your mother and not thinking that your 118 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:23,520 Speaker 3: mother have the right to be independent, to be seen 119 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:26,400 Speaker 3: as a human being. Otherwise, how do you see yourself? 120 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 2: You know, activism and music were so key in the 121 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:35,360 Speaker 2: nineteen sixties in the US, as you know. Are you 122 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:42,440 Speaker 2: surprised of the lack of activism today from many musicians? 123 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:46,880 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I am not surprised, but it's done differently today. 124 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 3: I would say in the sixties it was. It was 125 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 3: also the Vietnam War. Many issues but then need to 126 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:57,760 Speaker 3: be sung. But people still do it because if you 127 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 3: listen to the lyrics of song, it's when appear attentions 128 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:02,920 Speaker 3: into it. There are a lot of women and men 129 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:05,880 Speaker 3: that are talking about issues that no matter to us 130 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:10,000 Speaker 3: the most. We need to listen and act upon it. 131 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:13,640 Speaker 3: I think that music is a universal language that allowed 132 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:18,280 Speaker 3: us to tell a comparing story of our humans, our 133 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:21,680 Speaker 3: shared humanity. And if we don't we listen, but we 134 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:24,840 Speaker 3: don't hear. If we don't hear it, the day is 135 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:28,360 Speaker 3: gonna we're gonna realize we've been giving the the opportunity 136 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:31,600 Speaker 3: to do something, and we didn't do it. It's gonna 137 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:34,560 Speaker 3: be too late for me. Silence is the weapon also, 138 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:37,840 Speaker 3: it's it's it's the way we use silence. Silence can 139 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:40,400 Speaker 3: be a positive thing or it can be a deadly weapon. 140 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:44,080 Speaker 3: And we can't just say we don't know all this, 141 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:47,320 Speaker 3: we can't do nothing about it. Don't let us not 142 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:50,240 Speaker 3: be lazy when it comes to the right of people, 143 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 3: and never, never let us not politicize people's white Let 144 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:58,760 Speaker 3: people be who don't want to be. And otherwise we 145 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:01,440 Speaker 3: we just we're just making people suffer for no reason. 146 00:09:01,520 --> 00:09:03,760 Speaker 3: And it doesn't profect the one pole that I inclosed 147 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:07,080 Speaker 3: all those extrition on other people's right because at the 148 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:10,080 Speaker 3: end of the day, if you want to take people 149 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:12,880 Speaker 3: your freedom away, it means that your freedom means nothing 150 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:13,199 Speaker 3: to you. 151 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:17,200 Speaker 1: Are there ever points that you lose lose hope. 152 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:20,839 Speaker 3: Hope is stronger than fear. And I don't live in fear. 153 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:22,920 Speaker 3: It's one thing I learned from my father, And my 154 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:25,320 Speaker 3: father said, fear is a jail, said you bid for yourself. 155 00:09:26,679 --> 00:09:29,160 Speaker 3: You don't remember where you put the key because it's 156 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:31,160 Speaker 3: too late for you to come back, because you have 157 00:09:31,679 --> 00:09:36,719 Speaker 3: put yourself in such deep hold of hate. Hatred has 158 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:40,520 Speaker 3: nothing positive about it. Because the question I always ask 159 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:44,120 Speaker 3: myself is that why hate? If you hate somebody, it 160 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:47,720 Speaker 3: is because you hate yourself. Why do you hate yourself? 161 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:50,920 Speaker 3: What are the problems of your life that you didn't 162 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:54,400 Speaker 3: have the courage to face, Why your life is miserable? 163 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:58,240 Speaker 3: Ask yourself those questions and start walking backward and find 164 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:01,319 Speaker 3: a solution to live a life where you're not angry 165 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:04,320 Speaker 3: or why when you where you are not hating on 166 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:07,000 Speaker 3: people that done nothing to you, because that don't bring 167 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:11,040 Speaker 3: you joy, not closure, because that you have always to 168 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:14,800 Speaker 3: feed the heat, the hate, and the anger. It takes 169 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:18,160 Speaker 3: so much energy. I don't have it in me. Not 170 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:23,120 Speaker 3: one day I wake up thinking something's gonna happen to somebody. 171 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:25,920 Speaker 3: I don't have that time. I don't I was not 172 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:28,520 Speaker 3: raised like that, and I don't see people as color. 173 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:32,280 Speaker 3: And I will never judge people and generalize and put 174 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:34,680 Speaker 3: the people in the same bucket. You can't do that. 175 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:40,200 Speaker 3: We are unique, We are one humanity, yet unique and special. 176 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:42,800 Speaker 3: We all have something to bring to the table in 177 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:46,120 Speaker 3: this world we live in. And when you think like that, 178 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:49,080 Speaker 3: you can't just go around getting people because of the 179 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:51,960 Speaker 3: skin color. Because of this or because of that, you 180 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:55,240 Speaker 3: just have to love yourself and accept the fact that 181 00:10:55,520 --> 00:10:59,679 Speaker 3: the world we live in is diverse our I mean, 182 00:10:59,679 --> 00:11:04,520 Speaker 3: look the landscape in America. The southern landscape is different 183 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:08,319 Speaker 3: from the east side. I mean, America is the continent itself. 184 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:10,880 Speaker 3: You can you can travel from one place to the 185 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:15,320 Speaker 3: other in America and being totally different landscapes. I mean said, 186 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:18,640 Speaker 3: it's amazing and up to America and I've seen it. 187 00:11:18,679 --> 00:11:22,800 Speaker 3: I'm like, wow, what a country. It should make us 188 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:27,559 Speaker 3: humble and realize who we are and what we are. 189 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:32,040 Speaker 2: You know, some of your earliest influences, I'd like to 190 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:35,199 Speaker 2: have you talk about James Brown. 191 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:42,680 Speaker 3: Otis read as ready all of those Yeah, man, James Brown. 192 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:46,840 Speaker 3: Green brought the folk into my life. I mean, James 193 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:50,200 Speaker 3: Brown is the first artist that I heard in singing English, 194 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:53,360 Speaker 3: and I'm like, I have to learn this language because 195 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:57,600 Speaker 3: it becomes a rhythm, it becomes a dance and I 196 00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:01,160 Speaker 3: love dancing and I love rhythm. And then I started 197 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:05,000 Speaker 3: listening to the American music through the lenses of James 198 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:09,560 Speaker 3: Brown music, R and B all of it. There's an 199 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:12,080 Speaker 3: artist that comes that's called James Brown that put all 200 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:16,000 Speaker 3: of those things in funk man. This is too cool man. 201 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:21,920 Speaker 3: So I'm like, whoa, this is fun. And I was 202 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:25,480 Speaker 3: lucky enough to be raised in a household where my 203 00:12:25,679 --> 00:12:29,520 Speaker 3: parents have opened their home to every single human being 204 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:34,520 Speaker 3: on this planet and music, music, sports, arts, reading books. 205 00:12:34,559 --> 00:12:37,240 Speaker 3: I mean, it's an amazing home I grew up in 206 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:40,959 Speaker 3: and I took it for granted, along with it, thinking 207 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:44,440 Speaker 3: that it was the normal everywhere. And my father would say, 208 00:12:44,559 --> 00:12:47,800 Speaker 3: read books, just read. They have been doing that, come 209 00:12:47,880 --> 00:12:50,160 Speaker 3: before us, that have an experience that we have to share. 210 00:12:50,679 --> 00:12:52,840 Speaker 3: And by reading book and learning more and more, you 211 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:56,960 Speaker 3: find out who you are and what this world is about. 212 00:12:57,040 --> 00:12:58,439 Speaker 3: We have to learn from the past. 213 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:02,640 Speaker 2: I saw the amazing photo of you on stage and 214 00:13:02,679 --> 00:13:10,320 Speaker 2: a performance with Lou Reed, Lorie Anderson, David Bowie and 215 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:12,120 Speaker 2: Ray Davis, the Kings. 216 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:13,960 Speaker 1: Do you remember that moment? 217 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:19,880 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it was a Carnegie Hall and we had fun. 218 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:24,960 Speaker 3: It was for the Tibet House concert that Philip Glass 219 00:13:24,960 --> 00:13:30,120 Speaker 3: produced every year and I mean Patty Smith, all of them. 220 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:36,680 Speaker 3: We just finished the show like it's someamboyant it's joyful 221 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:41,360 Speaker 3: all then for me, it's it's just the music that 222 00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:44,520 Speaker 3: make it worth it for us to be all on 223 00:13:44,520 --> 00:13:47,600 Speaker 3: one stage, singing in one voice a song of one 224 00:13:47,640 --> 00:13:53,640 Speaker 3: of us, and and in that communion moment, there's just humanity, 225 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:57,160 Speaker 3: nothing else, no color, no language, nothing. 226 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:01,880 Speaker 2: And then you're I think the only person I've ever 227 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:06,560 Speaker 2: spoken to who could actually say that they cut the 228 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:14,680 Speaker 2: rug on the dance floor with Barack Obama. 229 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:19,560 Speaker 3: Well, he asked me. He said, it's how long can 230 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:23,280 Speaker 3: you get? I think, let's go down. It's the president, 231 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:25,480 Speaker 3: Let's do it. So I brought him all the way 232 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:31,000 Speaker 3: to the ground and he took the challenge. He did it. Yeah, 233 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:34,120 Speaker 3: I love the face of it. Was the face of 234 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:36,200 Speaker 3: Mishall that cracked me up. He said, I'm not going 235 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:37,840 Speaker 3: down there with y'all knowing. 236 00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:50,760 Speaker 2: What are you listening musically these days? That's new that 237 00:14:50,880 --> 00:14:52,000 Speaker 2: you might expose us to. 238 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:56,200 Speaker 3: Well, I've been listening to the new album of Da Wido. 239 00:14:56,760 --> 00:14:59,520 Speaker 3: It's a singer from Nigeria. We did a song called 240 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:04,600 Speaker 3: listen Together, called Nomoni and it's it's just like just 241 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:06,880 Speaker 3: kidding it right now. And I've been seeing listening to 242 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:12,320 Speaker 3: also to Avo part pract music and many different musicians 243 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:17,480 Speaker 3: from around the world. So because with Ava part and 244 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:22,320 Speaker 3: and Chits Blackwell and myself. We just want to pull 245 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:27,240 Speaker 3: up music price and we're gonna be celebrating together in 246 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:31,520 Speaker 3: in May in Sokholm. So I've been revisited re visiting 247 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:35,240 Speaker 3: different music and I love. I love to listen to 248 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:38,520 Speaker 3: different things, from classical music all the way traditional music 249 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:39,600 Speaker 3: from my country. 250 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:45,280 Speaker 2: Well, lastly, can you, in a nutshell explain to us 251 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:48,040 Speaker 2: the power of music and what it means to you. 252 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:53,640 Speaker 3: The power of music is it is something that brings 253 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:57,160 Speaker 3: us together. Wherever I've been in the world and I 254 00:15:57,280 --> 00:16:01,240 Speaker 3: walked on stage, I have the world at my seat. 255 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:06,160 Speaker 3: People come from different walk of life and I've think 256 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:12,080 Speaker 3: in language most of them don't understand. Yet unite us 257 00:16:12,160 --> 00:16:16,000 Speaker 3: and strengthened us to look at each other and to 258 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:21,160 Speaker 3: see each other as human being. The part of music heals. 259 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:24,880 Speaker 3: Music keeps you young, keep your brain young for a 260 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:29,040 Speaker 3: long time, longer time than anybody else. And it's amazing 261 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:36,520 Speaker 3: to see people at your concert smiling, cheering. It makes 262 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:37,000 Speaker 3: you humble. 263 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:41,520 Speaker 2: You are an inspiring treasure and I'm grateful that you 264 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:45,600 Speaker 2: were on are taking a walk and congrats on the 265 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:48,480 Speaker 2: new release of the Afro Pop series. 266 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:52,200 Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Angelique. 267 00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:53,960 Speaker 3: Thanks, thanks, thanks for having. 268 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:57,560 Speaker 2: Me Thanks for listening to Taking a Walk, music history 269 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:05,000 Speaker 2: on Foot. Find us at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, tune In, iHeart, 270 00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:09,960 Speaker 2: cast box, or wherever you get your podcasts, and kindly leave. 271 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:12,040 Speaker 1: Us a review and share it with a friend. 272 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:16,960 Speaker 2: This episode and all Taken a Walk episodes are produced 273 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:18,240 Speaker 2: by Bob Malatsta. 274 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:20,719 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening on Buzznight.