Krotal is a Cameroonian songwriter. Born October 2, 1975 Krotal (Paul Edouard Etoundi Onambele real name) is a pioneer of hip-hop movement in Cameroon.
He
worked with Anonym groups (the group) and the Magma fusion (collective
groups including his own)
with which he participated in 1997 at the
Rencontres Musicales de Yaoundé (REMY), made the first part of the
Senegalese group Positive Black Soul on tour in Cameroon at the time, and later in Dakar, Senegal, he participated
in the Dakar Festin Rap 'alongside artists like Fabe, Koma Daddy Nuttea,
Supernatural ...
Four
years later, in November 2003, he released an album of 16 tracks,
"Green Red Yellow" which is doubly-winning Cameroonian Music Award
(Album of the Year, Best Direction and musical composition) [ref. necessary]. Krotal evokes incisively the situation in his country and particularly young people.
In 2010, Krotal is sponsoring the project "Urban Waves This draft
socio-cultural cooperation between France and Cameroon is being
undertaken by the association Labo Goutte d'Art (Paris) and Ngoti
Company (Yaoundé).
In January 2012, the rapper announced the upcoming release of his new album, "The soundtrack of our life". This one came out on February 11 the same year and receives criticism rather mixed from the press.
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