Long live the International : This voice that has died out

Black Wednesday for Beninese music. Like wildfire, the bad news has spread. She made the rounds on social networks. In the streets, households, l’administration, etc, it's the excitement, sadness and dismay. We are talking about it, as if to say, that it is a national mourning. Well, yeah, the death of Vivi L’internationale is much more than a national mourning. It’s a big void for Beninese culture and the musical world., for what the valiant lady, the diva with a gentle and magnanimous heart, was for the promotion of peace and love of neighbor.

A musical style of a rather particular genre in which the illustrious deceased has succeeded, by its quite poignant messages, to raise awareness among the masses. Victorine Agbato, in civil status, moved hearts, makes sensitive souls cry, by his musical compositions which have the whole air of therapy. This Wednesday morning of 17 February 2022, this great voice of Beninese music has paid tribute to humanity. As if to say maybe, the good things of this world must not last. But for the thousands of fans and lovers of good music, it happened very early. Vivi gave her art again, the time for men to truly understand that she is admitted into the world of the living for a mission of repentance.

And how many are there already, to repent, for savoring the beautiful melodies, let's say this committed music, by Vivi the international ? “Vivi”, a diminutive taken from her first name Victorine and “the international” which was given to her in Togo after an XXL performance where the Beninese singer showed off her talent in front of an audience of VIP personalities and the internationally renowned artist Bella Bello.

An accomplished career

When song mixes with dance, in a correlation of messages and gestures, to draw people’s attention to a danger on the horizon, elle (the music) arouses a voracious appetite. A real stage beast, Vivi the international was an apostle of peace. She gave the audience thrills, by his art and his creative genius. From her, the nation remembers messages of peace and non-violence. Her song Fifa is the song that first revealed her and made her the most famous female artist in Benin, to arm herself with courage to dare to say what she thinks through music, without ever committing offenses. She is known to the general public through her songs for peace and love during Benin's transition from Marxism-Leninism to Democratic Renewal..

Following the February National Conference of the Nation's Vital Forces 1990, she sings her anthem for peace, N'dokolidji. A song that denounces the horrors of war and calls for unity and national cohesion. International Vivi is also politically engaged. She was active in revolutionary women's organizations. As part of his fight for peace in Benin, she sings in 2018 for inmates of Savalou civil prison. In 2008, she is decorated with National Merit. We also remember his rich musical career, his duet with icon Pedro Gnonnas, Long live the International, within the framework of 20 years of the National Lottery of Benin in 1982. As they often say, the artist never dies. Vivi, you're gone, but your works remain eternal. Rest in peace !

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