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Angelique Kidjo





R&B/World

Paris-prowling songstress Angelique Kidjo has covered much ground since leaving her native Benin, assaying everything -- with occasional ribald glee -- from her traditional vocal technique in the language of Fon/Yoruba to the sounds of U.S.D.A.-grade R&B and scat-jazz vocalese. On 1991's Afro-Caribbean-influenced Logozo and '98's sleek Oremi, Kidjo's records took on a worldlier stamp; an outside influence that dabbled, for better or worse, in Hendrix and Gershwin done in thumb-heavy funk. Luckily her new Black Ivory Soul (Columbia) returns her homeward by retracking the diaphanous diaspora between Africa and Brazil, Benin and Bahia.

Tue., April 2, 7:30 p.m. $28, North Star, 27th and Poplar sts., 215-684-0808, www.northstarbar.com.



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