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André-Marie Tala
André-Marie Tala is a Cameroonian singer-songwriter and guitarist, blind since age 15, who created tchamassi, pioneered bend-skin, and won a 1978 plagiarism suit against James Brown.
Blick Bassy
Blick Bassy, born Bassy Olama Blick, is a Cameroonian singer-songwriter and guitarist based in France whose 2019 album 1958 honored independence leader Ruben Um Nyobé.
Dina Bell
Dina Bell, born Charles Dina Ebongué in 1953 in Douala, Cameroon, is a makossa singer who broke through in 1978 with the gold-record Yoma Yoma.
Francis Bebey
Francis Bebey (1929–2001) was a Cameroonian musician, novelist, and musicologist who modernized makossa with classical guitar, the sanza, and synthesizers, winning the Grand Prix littéraire de l'Afrique noire.
K-Tino
K-Tino, born Catherine Edoa Ngoa in 1966 in Yaoundé, is a Cameroonian bikutsi singer known as "la femme du peuple" and the mother of modern bikutsi.
Lady Ponce
Lady Ponce, born Adèle Ruffine Ngono in 1983 in Mbalmayo, Cameroon, is a leading bikutsi singer, songwriter, and dancer nicknamed the Queen of Bikutsi.
Messi Martin
Messi Martin, also known as Martin Messi Me Nkonda (1946–2005), was a Cameroonian guitarist, singer, composer, and bandleader of Los Camaroes, considered the father of modern bikutsi.
Prince Eyango
Prince Eyango, born Pierre Ndédi Eyango, is a Cameroonian makossa singer, guitarist, and producer, leader of Les Montagnards, whose 1987 hit "You must calculer" earned a Disque d'or.
Richard Bona
Richard Bona, born Bona Pinder Yayumayalolo, is a Cameroonian bassist, singer, and composer whose jazz fusion is built on makossa rhythms; he won a Grammy with the Pat Metheny Group.