Angelique Kidjo with Ken Ehrlich & Phil Previews His June Run on Broadway!

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4.8 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2026

⏱️ 85 minutes

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This episode opens with a special message from Phil who previews his upcoming run on Broadway as part of "Celebrity Autobiography." Then David welcomes the internationally acclaimed singer, songwriter, activist and 5-time Grammy winner Angélique Kidjo and their mutual friend Ken Ehrlich, the longtime Grammy Awards Executive Producer who has worked with Kidjo, and countless other musical icons. Together, they have a lively but powerful talk about Kidjo's remarkable and inspiring life and career, and how a meeting with Pharrell Williams at the Vatican led to Kidjo's latest excellent and inspiring album, the suitably titled "Hope!!"For more on Kidjo, the new album and tour dates, go to https://www.kidjo.com. To learn more about building community through food and "Somebody Feed the People," visit the Philanthropy page at ⁠⁠philrosenthalworld.com⁠⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.1	Well, hi, everybody.
0:33.5	This is Phil.
0:34.5	I'm sure I can't be there today with my friend David. I'm up in
0:38.9	bottle rock in Napa. I'm doing a thing there on stage where I eat food and everybody seems to
0:46.4	like that. I don't understand the world, but this is what I'm doing. I just got back from
0:52.2	my live tour in Australia and New Zealand, had a wonderful
0:56.4	time with my son, who's also my tour manager, and I had a couple weeks there, and I'm already
1:03.1	up in Napa. What else is going on with me? I'm going to be on Broadway. Yes, this is crazy, but they've asked me to do
1:14.5	something called Celebrity Autobiography. This is a show that's been running in Los Angeles
1:20.3	on and off for about 20 years. And what it is is different people get on stage and read excerpts from famous celebrity autobiographies.
1:33.5	And I guess, you know, it's supposed to be a dichotomy between who's reading and what they're reading.
1:43.2	So like I remember, I think Jennifer Aniston
1:46.4	read excerpts from Arnold Schwarzenegger's autobiography. I have no idea who I'm going to be reading,
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