lapiro de mbanga

Lambo Sandjo Pierre Roger (7 April 1957 – 16 March 2014), better known as Lapiro de Mbanga, was a Cameroonian singer who is noted for his 1985 recording of "Pas argent no love" and for being imprisoned in 2008 after criticising Cameroon president Paul Biya in the song "Constitution constipée" ("Constipated Constitution")

For several years, Lapiro's music career took him to West African countries like Nigeria and Benin where he recorded his first single that made no headway. He returned to Cameroon and then quickly moved to Gabon where he did his first popular song "Pas d'argent, no love" with Haissam Records. He returned in 1985 to Cameroon, where he proceeded to compose and record what Index on Censorship has described as "a long list of biting texts on the socio-economic realities in his beleaguered country." His first song in this regard was "No Make Erreur".
Nicknamed "the guitar man," Mbanga became "the idol of the downtrodden and forgotten workers who people the slums and bus stations of Cameroon" and "the spokesman for the youth of his country." His hits of that period included "No Make Erreur," “Surface de Reparation" “Kop Nie," “Mimba We," and "Na You." He was regularly censored by the Cameroonian government.^[1][2]
In 2008, Mbanga criticised Cameroon president Paul Biya in the song "Constitution constipée" ("Constipated Constitution"). The song denounced the proposed amendment of Cameroon's constitutional clause, which limited presidents to two seven-year terms. The Cameroonian government banned "Constitution constipée" from the airways, however thousands of Cameroonians students used the song as an anthem as they rallied and rioted in the streets in February 2008 in protest against the proposed constitutional change, which would allow Biya to run for a new term in 2011.^[2]
Mbanga was arrested on 9 April 2008, and charged with "complicity in looting, destruction of property, arson, obstructing streets, degrading public or classified property, and forming illegal gatherings." Two days later, the Cameroonian parliament adopted the new constitution that Mbanga had attacked in "Constitution constipée.”
On 24 September 2008, Mbanga was sentenced by the Tribunal de Grande Instance (TGI) to three years in the New Bell prison near Douala. In December 2009 he contracted typhoid fever and nearly died of that disorder and respiratory complications. When authorities refused to send him to a hospital, his wife brought medications that helped save his life. In an interview, Mbanga said that he and his fellow prisoners had "penal rations twice a day. At 1pm we are given boiled corn and at 5pm there's rice in some warm water. It's the same every day. It's way below minimum requirements.”
Freemuse, a Danish-based NGO, mounted an international campaign for Mbanga's release. In a 2010 interview from prison, he said that "If my wife didn't travel four hours here and four hours back every day to give me food and if Freemuse hadn't publicised my case worldwide, I'd have been dead long ago."
In addition to Freemuse's campaign, the US-based lawyers' organisation Freedom Now monitored Mbanga's case throughout his incarceration. In April 2010, the Writers in Prison Committee of International PEN also launched a campaign to help win Mbanga's freedom. In 2011, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention declared that Mbanga's arrest was an infringement of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
During his detention, Mbanga repeatedly appealed his conviction to the Supreme Court. On 17 March 2011, he refused to take advantage of an offer from the Supreme Court to be released on bail.^{[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]} Mbanga was released from prison on 8 April 2011, one day before the official end of his sentence.^[
In a July 2011 interview, Mbanga described the prisons in which he had been incarcerated as "rotten" and insisted that he had never encouraged young people to damage and steal other people's property. "I've never done anything of the sort. Instead, I did everything to prevent that from happening." He called his trial "Kafkaesque", saying that his fate had been "decided in advance," despite the utter lack of evidence against him.

On 13 July 2011, in Lille, France, Mbanga returned to the stage for the first time since his release from prison. During the summer of 2011 he also played in Lausanne, Brussels, Paris, Barcelona, and at various venues in the United States, Canada, and Britain.^[11]
On 2 September 2012, Mbanga, his wife, and three of their children left Cameroon for the United States, where they had been granted asylum. They arrived in the US on 14 September.^[9]
In late 2012 it was reported that Mbanga was seeking a publisher for his book Cabale Politico-Judiciaire Ou La Mort Programmée D'Un Combatant De La Liberté (Politico-Judicial Cabal or the Planned Death of a Freedom Fighter).^[9] The book is set for release late this year.^[12]
In 2013 Mbanga's case was reopened before the Cameroonian Supreme Court.^[10] He died on March 16, 2014.^[13] The Supreme Court in June 2013 annulled the TGI judgment and ordered a retrial.^[14]

Personal life

In 2014, Lapiro died of cancer in Buffalo, New York.At the time of his death, Lapiro de Mbanga was married to Louisette Noukeu. They had no children but Lapiro reportedly had children from previous relationships including his first marriage.

k tino

k-Tino (born 12 October 1966 as Cathérine Edoa Ngoa) is a Cameroonian singer who shot to fame in her home country with her energetic bikutsi music.^[1] This music from the central part of the country, around the capital Yaoundé, became very popular in Cameroon during the 1980s and 1990s. As the political power basis shifted from the north to the south, a cultural renaissance of the Beti-Pahuin people living in the south, i.e. the Ewondo, Beti and Bulu, occurred.
Bikutsi music is characterized by an up-tempo 6/8 rhythm, danced with energetic pulsations of shoulders and/or pelvis. For more than ten years now, K-Tino (on earlier albums Catino) has been one of the main exponents of bikutsi. Her lyrics are quite explicit, although she herself denies that she is "vulgar": "dire que ma musique est obscène, c'est dire que la langue ewondo est obscène" ("to say that my music is obscene, is like saying that the Ewondo language itself is obscene" ICCnet Cameroun, 2000). Song titles such as "Action 69", "Viagra", "Ascenseur" ("Elevator"), "Casse Bambou", "La queue de ma chatte" ("My pussy's tail") etc. can be interpreted as explicitly as you wish though.
She is one of the most consistent and exciting performers in modern Bikutsi. Bikutsi has always been known to push boundaries with its lyrics, and K-Tino is a modern day master of the genre. Her song, Condom, c'est bon, advocates the use of condoms in the struggle against HIV/AIDS in a light-hearted fashion.
As of 2013 she is married and resided between Libreville, Gabon and Paris, France with regular stop overs in her native country of Cameroon.
In early 2014 K-tino stated that she has stopped doing obscene music and has now given her life to god.^{[citation needed]}
In May 2014 K-tino stated that she had cancer in her past year but refused to tell that to her fans, and that she is now pregnant

pit baccardi

 Pit Bacardi, whose real name is William N'Goumou, born June 9, 1978 in Yaounde, Cameroon, is a French rapper and producer. He currently lives in his country of origin Cameroon.. Pit Bacardi is the brother of rapper Dosseh from Orleans.
Pit Bacardi was born June 9, 1978 in Yaounde, Cameroon. He was raised by his grandmother, his mother died at his birth. He arrived in France in 1982, he returned to Cameroon in 1986, but returned to his home country in 1990, to study and live with his older brother in the 19th district of Paris,. Resulted in different shots during adolescence (flights snatching and petty crime), he stopped his studies in the second year of BEP3.
At Ménilmontant, he attended all the eastern neighborhoods of groups and became a member of ATK collective in 1995. In 1996, he met the future members of Time Bomb and Oxmo Puccino through the X-Men, the 20th arrondissement group. The group is also responsible for meeting with Melissa Mars, K-cey and Ricky doing their audition at the Jedi. The team then made the X-Men, Lunatic, Hi-Fi, and the Jedi, became Time Bomb. It will make appearances on the team freestyles Time Bomb on the handlebar and Time Bomb explodes. In 1997, X-Men and Lunatic parties, Pit Bacardi remains with Oxmo Puccino in Time Bomb. A year before the split in 1996-19974, he met Stéphane Patou and First Class at a Time Bomb in concert in La Rochelle. They present to Jacky and Ben J of Neg'Marrons. They start together a first set of songs, including the title We do things. Thus First Class label was born. Tandem is released their EP Those who know me and listen to The Skadrille there will be a passage.
Pit Bacardi published his first eponymous solo album 22 July 19995, which will put the piece away from you if in tribute to his dead mother; There invite Doc Enema, IAM, Ärsenik, Kery James or Rohff. The album reached 14th place French6 rankings. In 2000, he released the EP Ghetto ambianceur where one can find the first piece of hard core The public respects, originally on the compilation Ä Area All Stars, as well as a duet with Joe, American singer R'n'B; collaboration on the initiative of the American singer, which enabled him to be more know the general public.

He published his second solo album, The weight of ills in 20027, which reached the 55th place French.8 rankings. He then participated in the album Hard Core comes out in late 2005 after appearing on compilations, heavy Hall Street Stars (November 2004), Illicit project (beginning 2005) and Rap Performance (2005). He released a mixtape in 2004 involving many pieces and in 2007, a collector's album retracing his career in which he adds a few new tracks, with Medine holdings, Lino, Hamed Daye, Stomy Bugsy and others. Also in this context to announce her best album he released the song and the clip Just me in featuring with Gen Renard in June 2008. In 2008, Pit Bacardi collaborated with his half-brother Dosseh artistically, for the title brothers on the mixtape Vol.2 Bolide of Dosseh. This song announces his return which is materialized by the exit Just me in May 2010.
In 2015, he was announced as resident currently in his home country, Cameroon, where he produced local artists as Maleya X, Z Duke and Magasco on its Company1 Empire structure. In late 2015, it was announced in the studio recording a new album7.

henri dikongué

Henri Dikongué (born 1967) is a Cameroonian singer and guitarist.^[1]
Dikongué was born in Douala to a family of musicians. He attended a music school in Paris, where he attempted unsuccessfully to release a first album. He started a music/acting troupe and worked with actor Martin Yog and musicians Alfred M'Bongo and Manuel Wandji, as well as Maranatha, a South African chorus.
After finally choosing to settle in Paris in 1989, he perfected his skills with classical guitar and collaborated with African musicians such as Manu Dibango and Papa Wemba. In 1995 he released his first album, Wa. His music mixes elements from makossa, bikutsi, reggae and rumba. He sings in his native tongue, Duala.
His second album, C'est la vie, was released in 1997 (in the US under the Tinder Records label) and sold about 10,000 copies. Between 1997 and 1998, he toured Germany and the United States.
His third album, N'oublie jamais, was released in 2000. This album incorporated more musical styles such as reggae and flamenco, but the album wasn't as successful as his previous works.

moni bilé

Moni Bilé is a Cameroonian makossa musician. He was the best-selling makossa performer of the 1980s,^[1] and his album Amour & Espérance was an international hit that extended the worldwide popularity of the genre

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".

magasco

Tohnain Anthony Nguo better known as Magasco aka "Bamenda Boy" is a Cameroonian Afro-pop/afro-beats artist from the northwestern part of Cameroon.Magasco's love for music started at the age of 6 when he used to attend the Catholic church in Bamenda. he was present to most of the singing University of Yaoundé I. From there he decided to go professional with his music career since his love for music was growing stronger by the day.Magasco first public appearance was at a talent show called Positive Vibrations back in 1999. He formed a group of rappers in 2000 called "T-Drops" with longtime besties DaBlu and Klone. as In 2009 the group separated because DaBlu left for the U.S where he is currently doing music. After getting his A-level he was then selected to be among the candidates for the NW region at Nescafé singing competition along with Joys and Nasty. At the beginning of his career Magasco worked with label (Mumak) Where after releasing his debut single Line loba (land rover), same exposure let him to be signed under a biggest Cameroonian urban company Empire. Also Magasco has been part of end of year events At Palais de sport Yaoundé with crowds of over ten thousand. In 2013 Magasco was nominated for best urban artist for Cameroon did not win but he keeps his head high for better achievements. Magasco now under Empire, has released two singles so far (Fine BOY) and (Marry Me) which are currently hitting the world under the influence of National and international media. The remix of his song "Fine Boy " with DUC Z was included in the Mboa Tape Vol2 ^[1] Magasco is currently making several appearances in Cameroon starting in his home town Bamenda where he will be performing at the (In the Moov) concert. Magasco is currently working on his first album which was announced for early 2015.
activities of the church. He got his A level certificate in art then studied history at the