Tuesday, June 23 in Paris, Angélique Kidjo’s “Bando” featuring Pharrell Williams and Quavo closed Louis Vuitton’s Spring-Summer 2027 Men’s Show, presented live at Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris.
The show featured new original music unveiled by Pharrell Williams, Louis Vuitton’s Men’s Creative Director, as part of a cross-genre runway soundscape bringing together fashion, orchestral music, choir, hip-hop, and global sounds.
The evening culminated with “Bando,” with vocals contributed by the Virginia-based choir Voices of Fire and renowned conductor Thomas Roussel leading L’Orchestre du Pont Neuf.
For Angélique, the moment continues a major creative chapter with Pharrell and Louis Vuitton: Pharrell produced three songs on her recent album HOPE!! — including “Bando” — and recently outfitted her in custom Louis Vuitton for the GRAMMY Awards.
HOPE!! is the full-length follow-up to Kidjo’s 2021 GRAMMY-winning Mother Nature, and features Pharrell, Quavo, Davido, Ayra Starr, Nile Rodgers, Charlie Wilson, IZA, PJ Morton and more.
The Louis Vuitton moment arrives as Kidjo is also set to receive a Hollywood Walk of Fame star this summer, becoming the first Black African artist to receive the honor.
In addition to being a 5-time GRAMMY winner / 16-time nominee, Kidjo was named to TIME’s 100 Most Influential People and won the Polar Music Prize (2023). She performed at the reopening ceremony of Notre Dame in Paris (2024), has been recognized as one of the 100 most inspiring women in the world (The Guardian) and the most influential woman in Africa (Forbes), with The New Yorker calling her “a towering figure of cross-cultural music.”
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