Makossa is a type of music which is most popular in urban areas in Cameroon. It is similar to soukous, except it includes strong bass rhythm and a prominent horn section. It originated from a type of Duala dance called kossa, with significant influences from jazz, ambasse bey, Latin music, highlife and rumba. While the makossa style began in the 1950's, the first recordings were not seen until a decade later. Artists such as Eboa Lotin, Misse Ngoh and especially Manu Dibango popularized the style outside of Cameroon in the later 1960s. Makassi is a lighter style of makossa. Sam Fan Thomas developed and popularised this variation in the mid-1980s and made makossa potentially more marketable.^[1] Cameroon is best-known for makossa, a popular style that has gained fans across Africa, and its related dance craze bikutsi. ... Bikutsi is a musical genre from Cameroon. ... The Assiko is a very spectacular and popular dance from the South of Cameroon. ... Bend-skin (bend shin) is a kind of urban Cameroonian popular music. ... Bantowbol is a centre and south traditionnal music. ... Ambasse bey or ambas-i-bay is a style of folk music and dance from Cameroon. ... The Central African Republic includes many different cultures and musical forms. ... Describing the music of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is difficult, due to vagaries surrounding the meanings of various terms. ... // Music is an art form consisting of sound and silence expressed through time. ... // Soukous is a musical genre that originated in the Congos during the 1930s and early 1940s, and which has gained popularity throughout Africa. ... The horn (popularly known also as the French horn) is a brass instrument decended from the natural horn that consists of tubing wrapped into a coiled form. ... The Duala (or Douala) are an ethnic group of Cameroon. ... Dance (from French danser, perhaps from Frankish) generally refers to movement used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Ambasse bey or ambas-i-bay is a style of folk music and dance from Cameroon. ... Latin American music, or the music of Latin America, is sometimes called Latin music. ... Highlife is a musical genre that originated in Ghana, Sierra Leone and Nigeria in the 1920s and spread to other West African countries. ... Soukous (also known as Lingala or Congo, and previously as African rumba) is a musical genre that originated in the two neighbouring countries of Congo during the 1930s and early 1940s, and which has gained popularity throughout Africa. ... Manu Dibango (born December 12, 1933) is a Cameroonian saxophonist and vibraphone player. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...

The two musicians largely credited with modernising makossa are Manu Dibango and Emmanuel Nelle Eyoum. Eyoum start using the term 'kossa, kossa' in his songs with his group "Los Calvinos". But it was Emmanuel 'Manu' Dibango which popularised it to the world with his song "Soul Makossa" which came out in the early '70s with the famous chant 'mamase mamasa mamakossa', which was later used by Michael Jackson in "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" and Rihanna in "Don't Stop The Music" ('ma ma se, ma ma sa, ma ma coo sa'). Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958), commonly known as MJ as well as the King of Pop, is an American musician, entertainer, and pop icon whose successful career and controversial personal life have been a part of pop culture for the last three decades. ... Thriller track listing Wanna Be Startin Somethin (1) Baby Be Mine (2) Wanna Be Startin Somethin is a 1983 single released from Michael Jacksons multi-platinum selling 1982 album Thriller. ... Rihanna (born Robyn Rihanna Fenty on February 20, 1988) is a Bajan singer with musical influences from R&B, pop, reggae, rock, dancehall and funk. ... Dont Stop the Music is a song by Barbadian R&B/pop singer Rihanna. ...

Makossa artists

• Eboa Lotin
• Richard Bona
• Ekambi Brillant
• Marthe Zambo
• Guy Lobe
• Jacky Kingue
• Misse Ngoh
• Manu Dibango
• Moni Bile
• Lapiro de M'Banga
• Bebe Manga
• Sam Fan Thomas
• Zangalewa
• Koto Bass
• Ndedi Dibango
• Yerima Afo Akom
• John Minang
• Sergeo Polo
• Ben Decca
• Petit-Pays
• Dina Bell
• Toto Guillaume
• Douleur
• Marcel Bwanga

Richard Bona Richard Bona is a jazz musicican and bassist, was born in 1967 in Minta, in Cameroun, into a family of musicians. ... Manu Dibango (born December 12, 1933) is a Cameroonian saxophonist and vibraphone player. ... Mono Bilé is a Cameroonian makossa musician. ... Bebe Manga is a Cameroonian singer whose best-known song is Amie. Categories: Musician stubs | Cameroonian musicians | Vocalists ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Petit-Pays is a Cameroonian makossa musician. ...

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References

• West, Ben (2004). Cameroon: The Bradt Travel Guide. Guilford, Connecticut: The Globe Pequot Press Inc.

External links

• Watch Makossa music videos