American Express® Card Members can purchase tickets from Thu 7/16 10:30AM through Sat 7/18 11AM. MODERATED BY JOURNALIST NIC HARCOURT The Grammy Museum is thrilled to welcome legendary artist Angelique Kidjo for an evening discussing her newest album, HOPE!!, her career, creative process, and more, with a special performance in the Museum's intimate 200-seat Clive Davis Theater. Since Angélique Kidjo first burst onto the global scene over four decades ago, her music has provided a powerful transmission of pure unfettered joy. In the last few years alone, the Africa-born artist has amassed a host of accolades proving her immense cultural impact, including winning the 2023 Polar Music Prize, landing on Time’s illustrious 100 Most Influential People list, and taking home a Grammy for Best Global Music Album for 2021’s Mother Nature (a feat that earned her Guinness World Record for most Global Music Album awards won at the Grammys, with five prizes to date). On HOPE!!, Kidjo offers up a revelatory body of work affirming her as a truly essential artist-one whose unbridled joy serves as a unifying force, a conduit for healing, and a much-needed antidote to despair in troubled times. “I started singing when I was six years old, and I’m grateful every day that I still get to live my passion and do what I love with my life,” says Kidjo, who hails from the West African nation of Benin. “At the same time I know that many people struggle to find joy, especially when there’s so much to worry about in our world today. With this album I wanted to put some fire back in people’s hearts, and show how much we need that joy and hope to keep our humanity going.” The 18th album in her widely acclaimed discography, HOPE!! pushes forward with the generation-spanning collaborative approach Kidjo previously embraced on Mother Nature-an album that featured a stacked lineup of young artists from genres like Afrobeat, dancehall, and hip-hop and quickly drew praise from the likes of Pitchfork.