Enjoy mid week with Bend skin Music from Cameroon Bend-skin is a kind of urban Cameroonian popular music. Kouchouam Mbada is the best known group associated with the genre. Several other artists have over the years contributed to the growth and popularity of bend skin. It is related to manganbeu, and is played using only drums and maracas (often made from soda cans), with a vocalist who both sings and raps. It is often sung in Medumba which is the language of the Bangangte people and in many other Bamileke dialects. Bend-skin became popular in 1993 in the New-Bell Banganté, amid a time of economic depression. Although gaining grounds in most urban settings in Cameroon, Bend-skin is closely associated with the Western Region of Cameroon (the Bamileke people), who have been responsible for developing and promoting this genre of music. youtube/watch?v=Ziy7thkQ-Tk
Posted on: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 22:21:00 +0000
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