Bikutsi is a musical genre from Cameroon. It developed from the traditional styles of the Beti, or Ewondo, people, who live around the city of Yaoundé...
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style that has gained fans across Africa, and its related dance craze bikutsi. The pirogue sailors of Douala are known for a kind of singing called "Ngoso"...
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Les Têtes Brulées (category Bikutsi musical groups)
[le tɛt bʁyle]) are a Cameroonian band known for a pop version of the bikutsi dance music. Their name literally means the burnt heads in French, but...
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traditionally consisted of guitar-picking techniques that borrows from bikutsi; with a guitar-structure of a guitar switching from solo to rhythm from...
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folk music called bikutsi. Bikutsi is based on a war rhythm played with various rattles, drums and balafon. Sung by women, bikutsi featured sexually explicit...
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well known for its native music styles, particularly Makossa, Njang, and Bikutsi, and its successful national football team. It is a member state of the...
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her energetic bikutsi music. She is the biological daughter of Kamgaing Paul a former businessman in Cameroon who died in July 2022. Bikutsi music is characterized...
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Cameroonian singer and songwriter. She is also known as "La Reine de Bikutsi" (the Queen of Bikutsi). In 2014, Ngono was named a knight of the Order of Valour....
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and, as has a flowering of new styles of music and dance, such as the Bikutsi of the Ewondos. Thus, today many Beti-Pahuin consider themselves Christian...
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Afrobeat Afrobeats Afro house Amapiano Apala Arabesque Afro tech Benga Bikutsi Bongo flava Boomba Bubu music Cape jazz Chaabi Chalga Chaoui music Chimurenga...
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Chamamé Malambo Samba Marinera Gaita Zuliana Kizomba Ambasse bey Assiko Bikutsi Adowa Agbadza Agbekor (Atamga) Kpanlogo Bobobo Alkayida Bitti Harey Modern...
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Musical Revelation of the Year for 2012 at Canal 2'Or and Best Bikutsi of 2013 at Festi-Bikutsi. In April 2014, Argentée released a 10 track second album,...
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2017(2017-12-08) (aged 65) Abadiânia, Brazil Genres Jazz blues folk-pop salsa samba bikutsi makossa highlife juju soukous mbaqanga Occupation Musician Instruments...
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Nkodo Sitony (category Bikutsi)
December 2021) was a Cameroonian singer. Sitony was a popular singer of the bikutsi genre in the 1980s, and worked alongside Mongo Faya. He died at the Central...
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Afro rave Afro rock Afro-soul Amapiano Apala Azonto Balwo Batuque Benga Bikutsi Jazz Bongo Flava Boomba (aka Kapuka) Cape Jazz Chimurenga Coladeira Congolese...
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in Paris . It was Nyolo's intention to promote to a wide audience the bikutsi style of her homeland. Multiculti was recorded with help from Nyolo's former...
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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...
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Nyebe Andella), was born on May 10, 1981, in Yaoundé, and is a Cameroonian Bikutsi singer from Lekié in the Centre region of Cameroon. She began her professional...
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Music of Cameroon Genres Makossa Bikutsi Mvet Assiko Nganja Bend-skin New rumba Bantowbol Ambasse bey Bend-skin Specific forms List of musical instruments...
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Anne-Marie Nzié (category Bikutsi)
Anne-Marie Nzié (1932 – 24 May 2016) was a Cameroonian bikutsi singer. Anne-Marie Nzié was born in Bibia, Lolodorf, Cameroon, in 1932. Her father was...
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released her first album, titled Talk Talk in 1986, which mixed elements of bikutsi, folk, and jazz. In 1988, she was invited to the Presidential Palace in...
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Bullerengue – a style of Colombian music with African rhythms and chants. Bikutsi – Cameroonian EDM, originating in the Beti community. Bulerías – fast-paced...
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expression. In the late twentieth century the mvet became a key instrument of bikutsi music. Mvet with multiple gourd resonators Bwiti List of musical instruments...
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orchestration. Thereby emerge new musical variations such the Kwatt'nB & the Neo Bikutsi. Alongside these crossbreeding, Dynastie browsed through new genres from...
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Ambas-i-bay Celebration Cameroon Bakisiimba Celebration Uganda / Buganda Bikutsi Celebration Cameroon Bwola Celebration Uganda / Acholi Coupé-Décalé Celebration...
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Khmer Rouge largely ended this trend. Cameroonian music: Beginning with bikutsi in the 1950s and continuing with makossa into the end of the 20th century...
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percussion. He is also inspired by other Cameroonian music styles (Makossa, Bikutsi) and Jazz. If the term " cosmopolitan " did not already exist, it would...
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lamellophones such as the mbira, as well as xylophones like the balafon, the bikutsi, and the gyil. Ostinato figures are also played on string instruments such...
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parties. This style is closely tied with popular music, such as makossa, bikutsi, highlife, and hip hop. Dancing is an important avenue of social protest...
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cultural as well as artistic exhibits. The Centre is also the birthplace of bikutsi, a popular form of dance and music. The Ewondo people created the style...
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