We’re kinda scratching our heads wondering how someone with a voice like Ntjam Rosie’s managed to escape our radar for so long, but she probably won’t be flying under anyone’s radar from now on, not with the impressive new album with which she finally caught our attention.
A musical ambassador for Rotterdam (2010), Ntjam Rosie was born in Cameroon, raised in Holland and earned a bachelors degree in Latin singing, so she knows a thing or two about singing in multiple languages. She also won the MCN World Up! award for most promising talent.
That talent was greatly evident on her debut album Atouba (which we dug up once we'd "discovered" Ntjam), a blend of African and Western rhythms filtered through a soul sensibility, but we’re even more knocked out by Elle, which dropped just last October.
This one’s pure R&B-jazz, and to our mind will introduce Ntjam Rosie to a larger international audience. Judge for yourselves with In Need, the first single from the album.
And for anyone else who like us is coming late to Ntjam Rosie, here are a couple of clips of her perfoming live. The songs are Ye Wo Yi Ma and Bia Yon, both from her 2007 debut Atouba.
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Written by Phiona Okumu
