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\nBorn on October 29, 1950 in Bandjoun – Western Cameroon, Andr\u00e9<\/span> Marie Tala lost his mother at the age of four. He is raised by his grandmother, a traditional singing master in Bandjoun. His uncle plays accordion. In the early 1960s, the young Tala joined a Christian school choir led by Canadians. He plays tom-tom.\u00a0In 1965 his world collapses abruptly. His father dies and Andr\u00e9<\/span> Marie Tala himself\u00a0 becomes blind. The teen makes his own guitar to take care of himself. Despite his disability, he works constantly. Touched by this determination, his uncle Paul Wafo offers him a real guitar. More respite! The youngster\u00a0plays a total of 18 hours of guitar a day: “I did not sleep very much and I kept going for three years”, he remembers.<\/span><\/p>\n


At the age of 17 Tala founded his first band. The Rock Boys, with which he played his first compositions\u00a0 that quickly became a regional success: Although heavily influenced at this time by omnipresent French and American pop\u00a0\/ rock sounds, the young artist wrote from the beginning his own texts. These lyrics – with an often deep moral or philosophical message –\u00a0will become an important hallmark of Tala’s music.<\/span><\/p>\n


The group quickly gained some success\u00a0and began a tour of the\u00a0Bamileke country and the rest of Cameroon. Andr\u00e9<\/span> Marie Tala is becoming more and more confident and decided to change the name of the group in Les Tigres Noirs ( The Black Tigers).\u00a0At the same time a talented and promising young guitarist named Sam Fan Thomas joined the band. The latter will later make a successful international solo career\u00a0with his\u00a0Makassi rhythm and reached the top of the African charts in the 80s and 90s with a string of danceable hits such as: African Typic Collection, Noa and Mandela.<\/span><\/p>\n
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In October 1972, Andr\u00e9<\/span> Marie Tala flew for the first time to France, where he signed a contract with Decca. On this occasion he starts his first collaboration with Manu Diabango. This meeting marks a turning point in his career. Three 45-rpm singles come from it, including six Tala compositions, arranged by Manu Dibango: Sikati, Forgive Me, Potaksina, Caf\u00e9<\/span> , Na Mala Ebolo and Bwop.These titles become a great (inter)national success, In particular Na Mala Ebolo becomes a real master stroke with more than 120.000 copies sold in 1973.<\/span><\/div>\n


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\n1n 1974 Tala composed the soundtrack of the film Pousse-Pousse by cameroonian director Daniel Kamwa and in 1975 he established his fame with the album Hot Koki. This international success will\u00a0tempt James Brown\u00a0to plagiarize Hot Koki under the title The Hustle. In 1978, after four years of bitter legal battles, Tala wins the case and James brown is sentenced to pay him back all his rights.<\/span><\/div>\n

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\nSince his debut\u00a0he is compared with\u00a0Stevie Wonder because of their common disability, blindness. But also because both man are excellent musicians and composers,\u00a0with a strong moral personality who both belong to the top of the black musical culture.\u00a0At this moment Tala’s careers spans almost half a century and his discography counts more than 25 albums.In the early 90s, Tala found again a fertile source of inspiration in traditional Bamileke rhythms. He started to modernize the musical genre Bend Skin, a Bamileke dance until then mainly practised in a tradional cultural surrounding.\u00a0The research conducted by Tala on the Bend Skin rhythm, is crowned in 1993 by the release of the eponymous album, becomes a huge success in Cameroon and inspires lots of other musicians to further development of a modern Bend Skin style.<\/span><\/div>\n


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\nIn 2012, he began the project of opening a music school in Douala, Cameroon. This ambitious project is one of the dreams of the singer, which he is still actively working to achieve. In 2013\u00a0Tala starts the celebration of his 45-year enduring career with a concert in Douala Bercy. On May 17 2015 he gave a memorable show at the Olympia theatre in Paris together with his lifetime musical friend Sam Fan Thomas. In September 2016 he was on tour in the US and Canada.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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