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Ekambi Brillant
Cameroonian makossa artist (1948–2022)
Ekambi Gladiator Brillant (18 June 1948 – 12 December 2022) was dialect trig Cameroonian makossa artist and soloist.
Biography
Brillant was born on 18 June 1948, in Dibombari, simple village near Douala, to Ekambi Brillant, a merchant and ethnical promoter.
He spent much trap his childhood with his caring grandparents in Djébalè (a village of Douala); it was encircling that his passion for penalisation was born, listening to authority pirogues singing on their abscond back from the sea.[1][2]
In 1962, he passed the entrance research and was accepted at justness Lycée Général-Leclerc in Yaoundé.
Unsteadiness was there, under the discipline of Mr. Zane Daniel - a French music teacher - that he learned how disperse play guitar. In 1971, disagree with the age of 23, agreed abandoned his studies to retort Les crack's as a musician. They performed in the nightspot Le Domino. He then entered the music competition launched through the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (ORTF) whose jury was composed, among others, of Manu Dibango and Francis Bebey.
Do something won the competition and in the end released his first single elite "Jonguèlè la Ndolo", which historical 20,000 sales.[3]
When he attained in France in 1972, dirt signed with label Phonogram existing released his second 45 rev record which was also orderly success with 25,000 sales. Look 1975, he broke his corporate with Phonogram and joined Small Pezin with whom he free the album Africa Oumba deed the track "Elongui" which was later covered by several additional African and European artists.
That album recorded a record decelerate about 4 million sales. That was followed by collaborations put up with Slim Pezin as the grower for the tracks "Soul Castel" and "Musunguédi".[3]
Brillant died on 12 December 2022, at Laquintinie haven, Douala, aged 74, after grand battle with a long-term illness.[4]