WINNERS SHOW Music CENTRAL
Africa 3rd edition of the AFRO PEPITES SHOW : PEPITES AFRICA
·•● Winner of Category AFROS PEPITES: JUST WOÂN // Cameroon
// Acoustic ballads ●•·
JUST WOÂN transports us within the large universe of love... like
hymns of comfort and sharing…
Song in
competition: Me bë gwéss
wè
Site: http://justwoan.com
Social
networks: FACEBOOK
INFOS for ORGANIZERS, TOUR MANAGERS, MANAGERS, MEDIA,… : JUST WOÂN are based in
Yaoundé
(Cameroon)
// Contact
Pro : no manager yet
Biography: « Just Wôan was born the city with 7 hills:
Yaoundé, capital of Cameroon. His Sawa father is from Akwa and his Bafia mother
is from Biamo. The young Just Wôan had been attracted by music since he was a
child. The artistic feelings were transmitted to him thanks to his grandfather,
chief of a Bafia traditional dance group, to his father, fan of guitar, and to
his mother who believed in him from the start. After the school of choirs, Just
Wôan began to feel attracted to soul and South Sahara music.
His artist’s name come from his name Justin, he often
plays to spell it « juste-1 ». His
themes transport us within th large universe of love. His melodies are hymns of
comfort for those who don’t have it and of sharing for those whose heart is
full of it. For Just Wôan, love is this vital energy that any man must
transmit to be happy. In his lyrics, he describes pains and frustrations of
those who innocently suffer the consequences of strange decisions taken by this
world’s leaders. Last, he gives through his art a message of support to isolated
people and of comfort for the most vulnerable ones, without forgetting to evoke
dream and hope, these dreams that we all keep deep inside ourselves.»
·•● 2nd
of category AFROS PEPITES: ALIMA // Cameroon //
Acoustic Afrobeat ●•·
Alima, invites
you to consider female’s logics and listen to the powerful female intuition…
Song in
competition: yi mene mbè
Site: www.myspace.com/ngaalima
Social networks: not available
INFOS for ORGANIZERS, MEDIA,… : ALIMA is based in Yaoundé (Cameroon) // Contact Pro : CONTACT
Biography: By telling the story of women who used to gather at
the river to swim and talk about their secrets, far from men, Alima invites us to consider female’s
logics and listen to the powerful female intuition. Through many rhythms she
talks about complains, worries, drafts of solutions and optimism... her songs
are inspired by MAMA Nta, her grand-mother and by all these sufferings covering
Africa...
·•● 3rd of category AFROS PEPITES: ROOTS BLACK
// Cameroon //
Tradi-Modern Fusion
●•·
ROOTS BLACK develop
a clever symbiosis of rhythms coming from Cameroon cultural inheritance and
sounds from the world.
Song in competition: NTONG NING
Site: www.dailymotion.com/blackrootsmusic
Social
networks: not available
INFOS for ORGANIZERS, MEDIA,… : ROOTS BLACK are based Yaoundé (Cameroon) // Contact Pro : CONTACT
Biography : Six young
persons from diverse origins share a common passion : music and dance. In October 1997, they found themselves under
the supervision of Liza Ngwa, famous Cameroon singer and choreographer, who was
then Artistic Director of the National Ballet of Cameroon, and was working
since 1975 about an artistic project linking music and dance; her most famous
group was « Little drums ».
Created from the rest Little Drums, the Black Roots is now a music and
choreographic group developing a clever symbiosis of rhythms coming from the
famous cultural songs in Cameroon. Its members mix the magical power of
original costumes’ to roots music and rhythms, supported by guitars and
keyboards’ sounds. The Black Roots work
hard on Cameroon and African’s inheritance, while opening themselves to the sounds of musics of
the world.
