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Angelique Kidjo

Born in Benin (West Africa), Angelique Kidjo is a Grammy award-winning music recording artist deemed "Africa's premier diva" by Time Magazine. Kidjo's internationally acclaimed repertoire includes collaborations with various recording artists such as Carlos Santana, Peter Gabriel, Alicia Keys, Josh Groban, Branford Marsalis, Joss Stone, and many more. Known for her dynamic and uplifting music, she has translated her distinctive work in the arts to that of philanthropy; by promoting education for girls in Africa through her foundation, Batonga and as a UNICEF Goodwill ambassador Kidjo travels the world to inspire and empower.

Official website

For the Grammy-nominated "Oyo" Album released in 2010, WA2 developed a custom website including front and back-end design. The PHP CMS (Content Management System) modules allowing to archive in a time-line format the incredible life of the world-class recording artist and activist.

Concept, art direction, graphic design, HTML, PHP, CSS, JS, Flash, monthly maintenance.

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YouTube Music Video

Music video for the track "Samba Pati" featuring Roy Hargrove. The idea was to utilize hundreds of pictures from Angelique life and childhood in Benin, West Africa and give the fans a trip down memory lane.

Photo and video post-production, video encoding, online deployment.

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Carnegie Hall 2010 Campaign

In November of 2010, Carnegie Hall booked Kidjo's "The Sound of the Drum"as a headline show as part of their "Around the Globe Concert Series". The show sold out!

Poster concept, art direction, graphic design, facebook ads and social media word-of-mouth campaign.

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Djin Djin website

In 2008, for the Djin Djin Album (featuring Santana, Joss Stone, ...) we developed a custom website including front and back-end design to promote the album and the tour dates. The album won a Grammy!

Flash, HTML, PHP, CSS, Graphic Design, Illustration, video editing, motion-graphics and site maintenance.

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Social Media footprint

As part of our involvement with Angelique's career, the big question of getting involved with Social Media channels naturally came up... so we built and managed her social media online footprint and to date her Facebook fan page gathers over 25,000 active fans and over half a million viewers on her official YouTube channel.

Graphic design, FBML, CSS and monthly maintenance.

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