Allthough
the emphasis on this blog remains Makossa,
I will occasionally pay some attention to other popular Cameroon music styles
such as Bikutsi, Ashiko and Mangabeu.
Johnny
Tezano is a singer/guitarist from the Cameroons capital Yaoundé where the Beti
/ Ewondo people live. Most popular music among the Beti is Bikutsi, a
modernised traditional music style. As in the rest of Cameroon, Congolese music
is also popular in and around Yaoundé and in the 80’s most of the Bikutsi
records contained at least one Congolese inspired song.
Johnny
Tezano made a different choise, before Kotto Bass he is one of the few artists
in Cameroon who seduced his audience with Congolese inspired music. More than
30 years he was quite successfull in
Cameroon with his own brand of "Soukous". Meanwhile the man retired, but for many years
he combined his life as a musician with a job as a police-officer. To me this
looks a quite unusual combination.
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