Musics in Cameroon: outline

The music is omnipresent in Cameroon. Morning to evening and evening to morning the loudspeakers spit of the sound. Cabarets, night clubs, circuits... places where to listen to popular music do not miss.

Makossa, bikutsi and dombolo Kmer sauce fight battle to the domination of the Congolese music very appreciated and to the American negro musics poured by television and which collect the favour of young people.

One will find here a selection, very limited, of some cameroonian artists in very different styles. Some are more listened outside the country. Some cameroonian musicians do indeed not live in the country any more and their mixed music approaches more of the Western standards though they remain very appreciated in their country.

	Sally Nyolo, ex-Zap Mama, revisit the rhythms of the south of Cameroon. Four albums yet, a voice allured, her compositions are inspired by the traditional sounds...
	Coco Mbassi, another very appreciated voice. She sings in its mother tongue, the douala, personal compositions mixed
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	Cyril Effala plays with the words and arranges them in small prickly arrows full with humour...
	Donny Elwood is another juggler, always with words of course. Author but also composer and interprets, he is accompanied by his guitar and quotes as references Francis Bebey and Brassens...
	K-Rym la Rime is another style of juggler. This young inhabitant of Bessengue chose Rap like means of expression...

Others to come: Richard Bona, Henry Dikongue, Manu Dibango, Petit Pays, Anne-Marie Nzié,...