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Kareyce Fotso
Kareyce Fotso is a Cameroonian singer who performs around the world and in various styles, including Afro pop, blues and mangambeu. Biography Fotso was born in Bandjoun and grew up in Yaoundé. In Yaoundé she learned to speak Ewondo and today often performs in that language. Fotso studied biochemistry and film at school, but eventually went on to become a singer. Fotso sang for the band, Korongo Jam, starting in 2001, until the band split up in 2006. Fotso went back to Cameroon after the split where she began to perform in cabarets in Yaoundé. Her first album, ''Mulato'' was released locally in 2009. At the ''2009 Jeux de la Francophonie'', she won the silver medal at the song contest. In 2010, she released the album, ''Kwegne''. Her next album, ''Mokte'', was released in 2014. Fotso sings in various styles, including mangambeu, Afro pop African popular music (also styled Afropop, Afro-pop or Afro pop), like Music of Africa, African traditional music, is vast and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kareyce Fotso (cropped)
Kareyce Fotso is a Cameroonian singer who performs around the world and in various styles, including Afro pop, blues and mangambeu. Biography Fotso was born in Bandjoun and grew up in Yaoundé. In Yaoundé she learned to speak Ewondo and today often performs in that language. Fotso studied biochemistry and film at school, but eventually went on to become a singer. Fotso sang for the band, Korongo Jam, starting in 2001, until the band split up in 2006. Fotso went back to Cameroon after the split where she began to perform in cabarets in Yaoundé. Her first album, ''Mulato'' was released locally in 2009. At the ''2009 Jeux de la Francophonie'', she won the silver medal at the song contest. In 2010, she released the album, ''Kwegne''. Her next album, ''Mokte'', was released in 2014. Fotso sings in various styles, including mangambeu, Afro pop African popular music (also styled Afropop, Afro-pop or Afro pop), like Music of Africa, African traditional music, is vast and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cameroon
Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west-central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Its coastline lies on the Bight of Biafra, part of the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean. Due to its strategic position at the crossroads between West Africa and Central Africa, it has been categorized as being in both camps. Its nearly 27 million people speak 250 native languages. Early inhabitants of the territory included the Sao civilisation around Lake Chad, and the Baka hunter-gatherers in the southeastern rainforest. Portuguese explorers reached the coast in the 15th century and named the area ''Rio dos Camarões'' (''Shrimp River''), which became ''Cameroon'' in English. Fulani soldiers founded the Adamawa Emirate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African Popular Music
African popular music (also styled Afropop, Afro-pop or Afro pop), like African traditional music, is vast and varied. Most contemporary genres of African popular music build on cross-pollination with western popular music. Many genres of popular music like blues, jazz, afrobeats, salsa, zouk, and rumba derive to varying degrees on musical traditions from Africa, taken to the Americas by enslaved Africans. These rhythms and sounds have subsequently been adapted by newer genres like rock, and rhythm and blues. Likewise, African popular music has adopted elements, particularly the musical instruments and recording studio techniques of western music. The term does not refer to a specific style or sound but is used as a general term for African popular music. Influence of Afro-Cuban music Cuban music has been popular in Sub-Saharan Africa since the mid-twentieth century. It was Cuban music, more than any other, that provided the initial template for Afropop. To the Africans, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture. The blues form is ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll, and is characterized by the call-and-response pattern (the blues scale and specific chord progressions) of which the twelve-bar blues is the most common. Blue notes (or "worried notes"), usually thirds, fifths or sevenths flattened in pitch, are also an essential part of the sound. Blues shuffles or walking bass reinforce the trance-like rhythm and form a repetitive effect known as the groove. Blues as a genre is also characterized by its lyrics, bass lines, and instrumentation. Early traditional blues verses consisted of a single line repeated four times. It was only in the first decades of the 20th century that the most common current str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mangambeu
Mangambeu is a popular musical style of the Bangangte people of Cameroon Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west-central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the C .... It was popularised by Pierre Diddy Tchakounte.DeLancey and DeLancey 184. Today, other singers, such as Kareyce Fotso, continue to sing in this style. Notes References * DeLancey, Mark W., and Mark Dike DeLancey (2000): ''Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon'' (3rd ed.). Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press. Cameroonian styles of music {{Cameroon-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bandjoun
Bandjoun (''La 'Djo'' in local language) is a town and commune in the Koung-Khi Departments of Cameroon, Department in the West Region (Cameroon), West Region of Cameroon. Bandjoun is also the capital of the Koung-Khi department, and one of the largest traditional ''chefferie'' (chiefdom) in Bamiléké country. The chief dwells in Hialah, and has many wives. Its inhabitants speak ''Ghomala' language, Ghomala''' or ''Bandjoun'' which is one of the Bamiléké family of languages. Geography Bandjoun is located some 10 km south of Bafoussam and some 230 km north-east of Douala. Access to the municipality is by the N4 road from Bafoussam which passes through the municipality then goes south-east to Bayangam. The N5 road branches from the N4 in the municipality and goes south-west to Batié, Cameroon, Batié. The ''Route Bangou'' also branches from the N4 in the municipality and goes south through the town to Bangou, Cameroon, Bangou. History The recent history of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
