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By the 1980s, makossa had moved to Paris and a new pop-makossa fused elements of Antillean zouk. Prominent musicians from this period included Moni Bilé, Douleur, Bébé Manga, Ben Decca , Petit-Pays, and Esa. The 1980s also saw rapid development of Cameroon's media which saw a flourishing of both makossa and bikutsi.
Makossa developed, expanded and evolved into one of most popular and ubiquitous modern music genres in Cameroon. [14] Its influence shaped and altered the musical discourse in the country for more than half a century, so much so that its reach expanded far beyond the nation's borders to other parts of West and Central Africa. [15]
In the mid-1960s, Eboa Lotin performed a style of ambasse bey on harmonica and guitar that was the earliest form of makossa, a style that quickly came to overshadow its predecessor and become Cameroon's most popular form of indigenous music. [4] Ambasse bey was revived to an extent by Cameroonian singer Sallé John. [5]
This is a list of musicians and musical groups from Cameroon ... (or Golden Sounds), makossa group This page was last edited on 9 January 2025, at 16:07 (UTC). Text ...
His latest album, Positive Consciousness, was released by Melodie in 2003. In the recent years, he became a musical producer helping aspiring African musicians to get their songs recorded. He is also known as Le LIMA (Le L ion I ndomptable de la M usique A fricaine, i.e. Indomitable Lion of African music).
"Soul Makossa" is a song by Cameroonian saxophonist and songwriter Manu Dibango, released as a single in 1972. It is the most sampled African song in history. [1] The song was originally recorded as the B-side for "Hymne de la 8e Coupe d'Afrique des Nations", a song celebrating the Cameroon national football team's accession to the quarterfinals of the Africa Cup of Nations football tournament ...
Sam Fan Thomas (born Samuel Thomas Ndonfeng, April 1952, Bafoussam, Cameroon) [1] is a Cameroonian musician associated with Makossa. He began in the late 1960s and had his first hit with "Rikiatou". His "African Typic Collection" was an international hit in 1984 and is perhaps his best known work. [2]
In a 2010 interview with the Cameroon Tribune, he said that he was honored, "because Shakira is an icon of world music", while expressing that the band deserved royalties for the song. [ 3 ] [ 1 ] Dooh and Zé Bella held a press conference in Douala on 11 May 2010 with their manager, Didier Edo, who had negotiated an out-of-court settlement ...