{"id":2441801,"date":"2019-03-16T13:01:08","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T19:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=809205"},"modified":"2019-03-16T13:01:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T19:01:08","slug":"hear-angelique-kidjo-pay-tribute-to-celia-cruz-with-quimbara-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/hear-angelique-kidjo-pay-tribute-to-celia-cruz-with-quimbara-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Angelique Kidjo Pay Tribute to Celia Cruz With \u2018Quimbara\u2019 Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/GettyImages-1134880294.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Ang\u00e9lique Kidjo pays tribute to Celia Cruz with her new song \u201cQuimbara,\u201d which features on the West African singer\u2019s upcoming LP <em>Celia<\/em>, an LP that honors the \u201cQueen of Salsa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The track boasts all-star backing courtesy of legendary Afrobeat drummer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/tony-allen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tony-allen\" data-tag=\"tony-allen\">Tony Allen<\/a>, bassist Meshell Ndegeocello and Benin, Africa\u2019s Ganbge Brass Band. On the <em>Celia<\/em> rendition, Kidjo infuses the sound of West Africa into the song popularized by the Cuban-born Cruz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Quimbara\u2019 is the first song of Celia Cruz that I ever learned in Benin, West Africa where I grew up,\u201d Kidjo said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vocals were so acrobatic and it was a beautiful challenge for me. Many years later when I met Celia backstage in Paris before one of her concerts, I started to sing it and she said: \u2018please, come join me on stage for Quimbara, we\u2019ll sing it together.\u2019 That was one of the highlights of my musical life in Paris!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Celia<\/em> arrives April 19th via Verve and Universal Music France. Kidjo will embark on a tour this spring and summer to celebrate a trio of projects: Celia, her \u201cSing the Truth\u201d touring tribute to Nina Simone and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/angelique-kidjo-talks-reinventing-talking-heads-remain-in-light-on-new-lp-203888\/\">her full-album performances of Talking Heads\u2019 <em>Remain in Light<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/angelique-kidjo-celia-cruz-quimbara-809205\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ang\u00e9lique Kidjo pays tribute to Celia Cruz with her new song \u201cQuimbara,\u201d which features on the West African singer\u2019s upcoming LP Celia, an LP that honors the \u201cQueen of Salsa.\u201d The track boasts all-star backing courtesy of legendary Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen, bassist Meshell Ndegeocello and Benin, Africa\u2019s Ganbge Brass Band. On the Celia rendition, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2441801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 14:15:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2441801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}