Name Serge Ngando | ||
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Serge Ngando is a bass and double bass player, record producer, arranger and guitar player from Cameroon.
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He studied jazz bass in Montpellier, France at the Jam jazz school, then he decided that the bass was no longer a challenge.
He moved to Paris in 1993, and there studied classical double bass at the renowned Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris (Alfred Cortot). After 5 years of studies, he was awarded the Brevet d'Enseignement, the teaching certificate for classical double bass.
He produced the album Sepia (Tropical Music/Sony BMG) for singer-songwriter Coco Mbassi in 2001. The album was nominated for the BBC Radio 3 World Music Awards in 2002 and won the German World Music CD Critics' Awards.
He also produced her second album Sisea (Tropical Music/Sony BMG) in 2003, and is now working on arranging and producing her third album.