Spirit rising : my life, my music /
The singer, songwriter, and activist shares her story of escape from Africa, where her voice was censored by the Communist regime, to become a Grammy Award-winning, Billboard-topping musician and UNICEF Ambassador.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
HarperDesign an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
[2014]
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| Online Access: | Table of contents |
| Summary: | The singer, songwriter, and activist shares her story of escape from Africa, where her voice was censored by the Communist regime, to become a Grammy Award-winning, Billboard-topping musician and UNICEF Ambassador. Introduction -- Opening: Seeing new worlds -- Ready for the revolution -- The musician's life -- Say it loud -- Motherhood and Mother Earth -- Back to Benin -- Voodoo child -- The messenger -- Mutoto Kwanza -- Batonga -- My father's voice -- Epilogue -- Recipes. |
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| Physical Description: | 255 pages : illustrated (some color), portraits ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 0062071793 (hardback) 9780062071798 (hardback) |