eboa lotin

Emmanuel Eboa Lotin, born August 6, 1942 in Douala (Cameroon) and died on 6 October 1997 in Douala, is a cameroonian artist.Eboa Lotin was born of a housewife mother and a pastor father.  Reverend Adolphe Lotin was a religious pastor who renovated the Cameroon Baptist church. He has written over 400 songs. His parents die while he was only 3 years. Atrophy due to the quinine injection paralyzed his left leg at a very young age. Very young, Eboa Lotin experienced moments of discouragement and despair, he began music at the age of eight. In 1962, he was then only 20 years old when he composed his first song Mulema mam (my heart). He says in this song the story of a young couple with no experience in which the husband gives his wife a divorce because he has not enough money to satisfy the inordinate ambitions of his wife. He recorded this masterpiece in the studios of Radio Douala, enjoyed great success but not reporting him very little satisfaction matérielle.Il remains confident and cultivates his love for the gift he has by birth, he continues to work day and night until he met with success. He then made five more songs, including the famous Mbemb'a Mot'a sawa, title with which he won the 1st price of Vick's Featured (with Duke Ellington, president of the jury and Myriam Makeba juror), as that allows him discover the city of Paris. He took the opportunity to record his greatest hits (the Philips editions). Matumba Matumba and Bésombe wins Pan-African and international success.

He then invited the 1st Pan-African Festival of Algiers in July 1969 where he represents Cameroon.

Eboa Lotin is invited in 1969 by: The Emperor Bokassa 1st, the Central; Marien Ngouabi, Republic of Congo, at the birth of the PCT;
Omar Bongo, Gabon, during the 10th anniversary of the renovation (March 1970);
Mobutu Sese Seko, the Zaïre.Il died October 6, 1997 in Douala, about 17 hours, the Laquintinie hospital. His latest work will be released some time later, posthumously, entitled "Forever" ( "Forever"). It includes seven songs including Ave Maria, who could not be interpreted by its author before his death.

Father of five children, Lynda, Henry, Jackie, and Cathy Samuel, he shared his time between his family, his faith, his music (about 70 songs) and his sculpture.

Former student of the primary school Akwa, He never knew benches school since he left school in the sixth year of primary school (middle course 2nd year). He said of himself
"regular illiterate".