Name Prince Eyango | Role Musical Artist | |
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Albums The Very Best Of Prince Eyango :double Album Similar Petit‑Pays, Longue Longue, Sam Fan Thomas, Charlotte Dipanda, Manu Dibango | ||
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Ndedi Eyango aka Prince Eyango (born 27 April 1960 in Nkongsamba) is a Cameroonian singer, guitar player, songwriter, performer, and record producer.
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The son of a pastor, Ndedi Eyango sings in French, Pidgin English, Douala, and Mbo'o languages.
His biggest hit, "You Must Calculer" won best song of the year in 1987, best selling album of the year and Eyango won the Cameroonian "Best Artist of the Year Award" .
Founder and leader of his band "Les Montagnards", he revolutionized Makossa music by transforming it into a much more danceable form. He moved to the United States in 1993, where he has been based since. He is also a producer and owns a production company, "Preya Music" which has produced Longue Longue, Jacky Kingue, Tanus Foe, Papa Zoe, Marole Tchamba, Junior Eyango, Ndema System, and many more. All these accomplishments have brought him to be called one of the most influential music personalities in Cameroon.
Prince Eyango is a great entertainer who continues to fuse world beat and African rhythms with a vibrant display of intricate choreography, never failing to bring audiences to their feet.
In 2000, he was nominated for the World Music category at the Los Angeles Weekly Music Awards. In 2007 Prince Eyango recorded an album called "On Tourne La Page" and won the "Best Artist Come-back" award.
In 2009, he returned to Cameroon with one goal "to bring his U.S. music knowledge to expand his career as a musician and producer, and to promote the vibrant culture and musical talent in his country of birth", as he has said in many interviews. In 2012 his album "Apelle Moi" won the Canal D'or Music Award for the Best Male Artist of the Year.
With this latest honor, musical historians are certain to note Prince Eyango for his lifelong achievements.
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Discography
- Nweringa (1983) Ondoua records
- Service libre (1985) - Dicks Records (LP)
- Saluts les maries (1986) - BMCA Records (LP)
- You Must Calculer (1987) - Tougata (LP)
- Soul Botingo (1989) - Toure Jim's Records (LP)
- Les problèmes (1991) - Toure Jim's Records (LP, CD reissue 1996)
- Greatest Hits vol. 1 (1994) - Preya (CD)
- Another Part of Me (1996) - Preya (CD)
- Si tu me mens (1998) - [Preya Music' (CD)
- You Go Pay (2000) - Preya Music (CD)
- Métamorphose (2002) - Preya Music(CD)
- The Very Best of Prince Eyango (2005) - (2 CD)
- On Tourne la Page (2007)Preya Music (CD)
- Ecole D'amour (2009) Preya Music (CD)
- Une Autre enfance est possible (2010) SINGLE preya music
- Apelle Moi (2013) Preya Music (CD)
- la femme enceinte (2011) preya music SINGLE
- Merci Seigneur (2015) preya music CD
- Je dis oui (2015) preya music SINGLE
- Les pleurs du Sahel (2016 Preya Music SINGLE
- Renaissance (2017) ALBUM)