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Sally Nyolo
(Cameroon)

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Biography

Sally Nyolo began here international career as one of the singers of Zap Mama, a Belgium-based group of a-capella singers, led by the Belgian-Congolese Marie Daulne. Zap Mama was extremely successful during the 1990s. But before that, Sally Nyolo was active as backing vocal and singer on many records and concerts of Toure Kunda, Princesse Erika and others.

After she left Zap Mama, her musical talents, both as singer and as composer, developed further. This enabled her to bring out several solo albums, largely drawing on the same musical sphere as Zap Mama, but increasing the use of traditional rhythms and instruments from the forest region of central Cameroon.

Her vocal abilities are stunning, the musical pictures she is drawing are intriguing...

Musicians on « Multiculti »:
Sally Nyolo (vocals, backing vocals, percussion),
Jean-Daniel Manga (bass, guitar, balafon),
Salvador Douezy (guitar),
Gildas Becquet (guitar), and many others.

Born: In Eyem-Meyong (near Monatélé)
Style: African vocal, folk, bikutsi

Sally Nyolo

Discography

Title	Year	Label	Remarks
La nuit à Fébé	2011	RCA Victor / Sony Music
Mémoire du monde	2007	Skycap Records
Zaïone	2002	Lusafrica 36278-2
Beti	2000	Lusafrica
Multiculti	1998	BMG Tropical Music
Tribu	1996	Lusafrica

Page created April 2000

Sally Nyolo(Cameroon)

Frank Bessem's Musiques d'Afrique

Sally Nyolo
(Cameroon)