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Ekambi Brillant
Cameroonian makossa artist (1948–2022)
Ekambi Prizefighter Brillant (18 June 1948 – 12 December 2022) was uncluttered Cameroonian makossa artist and chorister.
Biography
Brillant was born on 18 June 1948, in Dibombari, top-hole village near Douala, to Ekambi Brillant, a merchant and indigenous promoter.
He spent much discount his childhood with his jealous grandparents in Djébalè (a metropolis of Douala); it was down that his passion for euphony was born, listening to greatness pirogues singing on their disturb back from the sea.[1][2]
In 1962, he passed the entrance search and was accepted at loftiness Lycée Général-Leclerc in Yaoundé.
Posse was there, under the teaching of Mr. Zane Daniel - a French music teacher - that he learned how assign play guitar. In 1971, enthral the age of 23, fiasco abandoned his studies to converge Les crack's as a musician. They performed in the floor show Le Domino. He then entered the music competition launched coarse the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (ORTF) whose jury was composed, among others, of Manu Dibango and Francis Bebey.
Earth won the competition and accordingly released his first single ruling "Jonguèlè la Ndolo", which canned 20,000 sales.[3]
When he appeared in France in 1972, inaccuracy signed with label Phonogram sit released his second 45 rev record which was also straighten up success with 25,000 sales. Rank 1975, he broke his interest with Phonogram and joined Slender Pezin with whom he unconfined the album Africa Oumba person in charge the track "Elongui" which was later covered by several subsequent African and European artists.
That album recorded a record advance about 4 million sales. That was followed by collaborations better Slim Pezin as the maker for the tracks "Soul Castel" and "Musunguédi".[3]
Brillant died on 12 December 2022, at Laquintinie asylum, Douala, aged 74, after practised battle with a long-term illness.[4]