1. Grayson Haver Currin, “Angélique Kidjo on the Myth of Cultural Appropriation and Covering Remain in Light,” Pitchfork, 7 June 2018, https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/angelique-kidjo-interview-myth-of-cultural-appropriation-covering-remain-in-light/.
2. Angélique Kidjo and Rachel Wenrick, Spirit Rising: My Life, My Music (New York: Harper Design, 2014).
3. The song can be heard, for example, in the first minute of track thirteen on the supplemental CD to Katherine J. Hagedorn, Divine Utterances: The Performance of Afro-Cuban Santería (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001).
4. Celia Cruz and Ana Cristina Reymundo, Celia: My Life (New York: Rayo, 2004), 140-1.
5. Tony Allen and Michael E. Veal, Tony Allen: An Autobiography of the Master Drummer of Afrobeat (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2013), 31, 34.