Charlotte Dipanda: the Cameroonian music diva

Charlotte Dipanda is a Cameroonian artist, musician, singer and songwriter who also has qualities as a guitarist.

Her career is a long journey that began in her early childhood and continued in the nightclubs to achieve the success she enjoys today. His style of music is intended to be “porous to all the breaths of the world”, to use an expression of Aimé Césaire, poet and playwright from Martinique. As a result, she mixes several genres that give her that particularity that we recognize in her today.

Charlottes Dipanda is one of the divas of current Cameroonian music alongside other singer artists such as Lady Ponce, Mani Bella, Reniss and Coco Argenté. Endowed with talents other than singing, she is naturally invited to major musical shows to play an instrument or take on the role of vocal coach. Discover in a few words the course, better still, the career of Lady Ponce.

Birth and school career

Charlotte Dipanda was born on July 18, 1985 in Yaoundé, the political capital of Cameroon a > within a family of artists where singing and instruments held no secrets for anyone. After her mother left for the United States, Charlotte spent her life between Yaoundé where she was born, in western Cameroon with one of her uncles and at Douala with his grandmother who teaches him the basics of music. It was in this context that she continued her studies while beginning to sing in cabarets at the age of fifteen. She led a life far from rest, between performing in the evening until late at night and going to school very early at 7am. The rhythm had become unbearable for her so she decides to devote herself entirely to music.

* First steps in music

After singing for a while in a rap group, she began solo and in 2001, she recorded her first album with Jeannot Hens, a Cameroonian guitarist who was very fond of young rappers. Then she flew to Paris to take music lessons at the Institute of Art Culture and Perception. In Paris she meets African stars like Lokua Kanza, Papa Wemba, Manu Dibango, Rokia Traoré, Axelle RED or Idrissa Diop for whom she performs choirs. Subsequently she joined the Gospel choir for 100 Voices which will take her later in 2012 an album of Christian inspiration Dube l’Am which means “My faith” in collaboration with great singers and instrumentalists such as Richard Bona, Lokua Kanza, Jacob Desvarieux among others. She returns to Cameroon to present the album to her fans through the Campus Tour. Then in 2015 she produced her 3rd album entitled Massa which is a mix of Jazz, acoustics, makossa-soft and afrobeat.

Confirmation and success

If Charlotte Dipanda has been known to her most die-hard fans since the start of her career, many African music lovers have discovered her, or if you like, really adopted her in 2012 with Dube l’Am (Kénè so for example ), but especially in 2015 with Massa who was the sesame to the international notoriety that she currently enjoys. The eponymous title sublimates the tragic history of immigration to the Mediterranean. Another track, a single, has further carved out its place among the stars of African music namely “She has not seen”, a touching nod to mothers who left too early. At the same time, in 2016 more precisely, she was called upon alongside stars like Lokua Kanza, Asalfo and Singuila to coach young talents at The Voice Africa.

A shameful scandal from which she will be cleared

In June 2017, a rumor that could be described as “nauseous” circulated about him on the web, precisely on Facebook. She was reportedly seen in a pornographic video and a few days later in obscene photos showing her lesbianism. The news takes hold of the internet which asks nothing better to ignite the singer. But details will come to debunk the scandalous cabal. Indeed it was a crude montage to sully the reputation of the Cameroonian artist for clearly obvious reasons.

Music style and awards

Charlotte Dipanda plays music of diversity and interculturality. His compositions feature traditional African rhythms as well as Western styles like Jazz. His favorite themes are love, pain, hate, jealousy, homecoming, life, death, faith etc. For all this work, in Cameroon in 2012 she received the Canal d’Or Prize in the category of “Best female artist of the year”. Internationally, as we have said, Charlotte Dipanda is asked for several singing programs and for collaborations with Eric Virgal in “I remember his face”.

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