{"id":79944,"date":"2026-08-20T09:16:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T09:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/79944\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T09:16:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T09:16:28","slug":"angelique-kidjo-becomes-first-african-musician-to-get-hollywood-star-france-24-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/79944\/","title":{"rendered":"Angelique Kidjo becomes first African musician to get Hollywood star \u2022 FRANCE 24 English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Angelique Kidjo becomes first African musician to get Hollywood star \u2022 FRANCE 24 English\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l69itDjM48U\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nAngelique Kidjo becomes first African musician to get Hollywood star \u2022 FRANCE 24 English<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFive-time Grammy winner Angelique Kidjo on Tuesday became the first Black African to be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In a glitzy ceremony under palm trees and picture-perfect California skies, Kidjo was feted by film stars and music industry titans as she unveiled the star on the busy thoroughfare. &#8220;We Africans don&#8217;t know what we&#8217;ve given to the world,&#8221; the 66-year-old said.<br \/>\n#AngeliqueKidjo #WalkofFame #Africa<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd14 Subscribe to France 24 now: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTen<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd34 LIVE &#8211; Watch FRANCE 24 English 24\/7 here: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTliveEN<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf0d Read the latest International News and Top Stories: https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Like us on Facebook: https:\/\/f24.my\/FBen<br \/>\nFollow us on X: https:\/\/f24.my\/Xen<br \/>\nBluesky: https:\/\/f24.my\/BSen and Threads: https:\/\/f24.my\/THen<br \/>\nBrowse the news in pictures on Instagram: https:\/\/f24.my\/IGen<br \/>\nDiscover our TikTok videos: https:\/\/f24.my\/TKen<br \/>\nGet the latest top stories on Telegram: https:\/\/f24.my\/TGen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Angelique Kidjo becomes first African musician to get Hollywood star \u2022 FRANCE 24 English Five-time Grammy winner Angelique&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[33,410,65475,644,7444,5469,22,23,20,21,6052,650,32660,6183,1238,31,9935,44,65310],"class_list":["post-79944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france24","tag-africa","tag-america","tag-angelique-kidjo","tag-art","tag-benin","tag-cinema","tag-france-24","tag-france-24-english","tag-france24","tag-france24-english","tag-hollywood","tag-infos","tag-kidjo","tag-la","tag-music","tag-news","tag-star","tag-usa","tag-walk-of-fame"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/117127187275531091","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}