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Before long, she\u2019d moved on to French y\u00e9-y\u00e9, Cameroonian makossa, and covering Miriam Makeba with her high-school band. After Kidjo\u2019s first album made her a national star, her family feared that Benin\u2019s government, under the dictator Mathieu K\u00e9r\u00e9kou, might stop her from attending school in France. They arranged a late-night escape without official clearance; luckily, the customs officer at the airport was a fan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kidjo enrolled at the Centre d\u2019informations musicales, a jazz school in Paris, and immersed herself in the city\u2019s emerging world-music scene. Her d\u00e9but album with Island Records, \u201cLogozo\u201d (1991), vaulted her to the top of the international music charts, thanks largely to the swaggering dance hit \u201cBatonga.\u201d (Kidjo appeared on the album\u2019s cover in a zebra-print catsuit.) 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