At the 2020 Grammy Awards, Angélique Kidjo did something rather unexpected. In accepting her award for the Best World Music Album, she dedicated the gong to fellow category contender, Nigerian star Burna Boy, and used her speech to point to the wave of exciting new African artists storming into the mainstream. Championing the depth of talent from her home continent, and reconnecting humanity with a shared musical culture, have been part of a campaign Kidjo has led for over three decades. Hear Logozo on Classic Albums above: "In most of the countries in Africa, people don't go that much crazy [about] music and the singing," she explained to RN's The Music Show in 1994.