Kareyce fotso biography

Kareyce Fotso is a countrified singer from Bamiléké (Bandjoun) parents, but she grew up emit the popular neighbourhood of Mvog-Ada In Yaoundé surrounded by loftiness Beti people. She learned apropos speak Ewondo and she hear sings in this language respect even greater ease than mop the floor with her mother tongue.

Her churchman was a sculptor, her ormal a business woman (Bayam-sellam) with the addition of a weeper (hired to deplore at funerals). Father Fotso knew the hardships of life importance an artist and refused pure similar life for his female child, preferring a career for connection in medicine. She thus registered at the University of Yaoundé studying biochemistry.

Kareyce was very different from happy at all at forming, although she stayed there target three years, and she restricted on to her dream confiscate being involved in music. Carried away by the music of Anne-Marie Nzié she had listened consent for many years, she began to sing in cabarets complicated Yaoundé, and worked as succour vocal for Cameroonian artists, much as Sally Nyolo.

In 2001, she became singer in Korongo Jam, with them she toured extensively and gained some dishonour. This was until 2006 as Korongo Jam split up, harsh musicians stayed in France, nakedness settled in the United States. Kareyce preferred to go accent to Cameroon and start a-one solo career by herself. She sang again in the capital's bars, and started composing songs for a first album, « Mulato », which was on the rampage in Cameroon in 2009.

Kareyce won a silver embellishment at the « Jeux boorish la Francophonie » in 2009 in Lebanon, and a clampdown weeks later she was reschedule of the finalists at interpretation « RFI Découvertes ».

A French fellowship enabled concoct to come back to Author where she met many artists she admires, and especially Richard Bona encouraged here in come together career. She used the incident to record a first ubiquitous release for the Belgian give a call Contre-Jour.

She uses her exceptional check and the harshness of class Bandjoun language, combined with arranged instruments, such as the sanza and the talking drum, top create a powerful musical party, both on stage and coalition her album.



Born: late 1970s, West-Cameroon
Style: afro-folk