Legendary singer and multiple Grammy Awards winner, Angelique Kidjo has disclosed in a recent interview with Smooth FM in Lagos State that her lineage is from Iseyin, Oyo State, Nigeria. Kidjo stated that her mother told her of her background as a growing up child, that she is a citizen of Nigeria
The 61-year-old singer who was born in the Benin Republic claimed that she has lots of relatives in Nigeria even though she doesn’t visit them often.
Kidjo said, “My Mum told me that I am from Iseyin because when my grandfather’s great great great great father came back from Brazil, they found their roots in Iseyin.
From my mother’s mother’s side, we have always been from Nigeria. So we have families in Abeokuta. Ibadan, Lagos, everywhere, I have cousins I haven’t seen a million years that I miss a lot.”
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