Coco Mbassi
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Iwiye
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General Info
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Genre: Acoustic / Afro-beat / Nu-Jazz
Location London, UK
Profile Views: 72878
Last Login: 4/22/2012
Member Since 6/5/2006
Record Label Open!
Type of Label Indie
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Bio
Coco Mbassi is a multiple award nominee and winner (RFI, BBC German CD Critics Award), known for her mellow and intricate sultry and delicate vocals, symbolizes our global world as she blends African roots with Gospel, Soul, Classical and Jazz influences acquired over the years. From a young age, Coco is exposed modern and traditional music, Haendel, James Brown, the Jackson well as Mahalia Jackson and others. Years later, when she moves she starts singing backing vocals in Paris with most major World She starts touring worldwide in 1997 and never stops, presenting albums Sepia and Sisea as she performs; Live 8 Africa Calling, Womad Reading, Lafayette, Singapore and even Adelaide will benefit from Coco's enchanting voice. She has collaborated with many musicians from Paris, France and London, UK in a band that ranges from 2 to 8. She often performs in a two-piece acoustic band with Serge Ngando Mpondo (bass, double-bass, guitar). She is now working on a new album. Stay tuned for updates!!! .. .. .. .. ...... .. .. ...... .. ..Free MySpace Layouts.. .. .... ..f0faa3e02e7d86e28112adafb70352ea.. -
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Coco Mbassi - vocals Serge Ngando - musical direction, bass, guitar + like-minded talented musicians ;)) -
Influences
Recent and since childhood, musical: Dina Bell, Sarah Vaughan, Georg Friedrich Haendel, Stevie Wonder, Mahalia Jackson, Toto Guillaume, Miriam Makeba, Bob Marley, Michael Jackson (until 'Black or White'), Kirk Franklin, Take 6, Dianne Reeves, ...and all the others whose music seeped in without me noticing it. Literary: The Bible, Pride and Prejudice (ah Lizzy!)-Jane Austen-, La Ferocite Blanche (Rosa-Amelia Plumelle-Uribe), Everything Happens For a Reason (Kavita Daswani), And God Created The Au-Pair (Benedicte Newland & Pascale Smets), Roots (Alex Haley), I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou) and all her books especially All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes and her poem 'Phenomenal Woman', The Way Forward Is With A Broken Heart (Alice Walker) and all her books - of course, The Color Purple-, Waiting To Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back (Terry McMillan) and so many others...I LOVE BOOKS!!! -
Sounds Like
Me myself and I!!!
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Coco Mbassi has a show on 2012-05-24 at 19:30 @ LIVE at MOMO (London) in London http://lnk.ms/c5hj8 #concert
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Coco Mbassi has a show on 2012-05-19 at 20:00 @ Camden Centre Banqueting... in London http://lnk.ms/c25jS #concert
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Videos
Coco Mbassi Tour
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Comments
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- KAbecka Cleaver1 year ago
have a great day :)
- Georges Seba1 year ago
Hello belle enfant ! Comment va la famille ? Cela fait longtemps ! Recevez mes meilleurs voeux et beaucoup de beaux projets qui se réaliseront pour 2011. Continue soeurette. Tu nous manques par ici. Bien à toi. Georges Seba
- Shelly NOrman1 year ago
THX !!! - Coco Mbassi1 year ago
Merci Arlie! Envoyez moi votre adresse email et je vous envoie les paroles
- Arlie1 year ago
Bonsoir! Superbe voix, très belle musique; j'ai eu un coup de cœur sur "Iwiye", c'est tellement beau ces voix ensemble! Bon, je dois reconnaître que je ne comprends pas les paroles... Vous avez peut-être un site internet avec les traductions disponibles?
Bonne continuation! - Coco Mbassi1 year ago
Grazie mille Mena. No parla Italiano ;-)
- Mena Cacciapuoti1 year ago
la tua voce e la tua musica raccontano tutta la belllezza della cultura e della terra dalla quale provieni... Spero di sentirne anch'io presto l'odore!!! Sei tu che in questo momento mi dai la possibilità di viaggiare con l'immaginazione... GRAZIE...grazie
MENA - Karl1 year ago
Hi Coco,
danke fürs freund sein.
Gruß
Karl - Abigail Miller1 year ago
Hi Coco Mbassi. Thanks for the add!
- Ras Lyon Hart1 year ago
GREETINGS PEACE AND LOVE
Bio:
Coco Mbassi is a multiple award nominee and winner (RFI, BBC German CD Critics Award), known for her mellow and intricate sultry and delicate vocals, symbolizes our global world as she blends African roots with Gospel, Soul, Classical and Jazz influences acquired over the years. From a young age, Coco is exposed modern and traditional music, Haendel, James Brown, the Jackson well as Mahalia Jackson and others. Years later, when she moves she starts singing backing vocals in Paris with most major World She starts touring worldwide in 1997 and never stops, presenting albums Sepia and Sisea as she performs; Reading, Lafayette, Singapore and even Adelaide will benefit from Coco's enchanting voice. She has collaborated with many musicians from Paris, France and London, UK in a band that ranges from 2 to 8. She often performs in a two-piece acoustic band with Serge Ngando Mpondo (bass, double-bass, guitar). She is now working on a new album. Stay tuned for updates!!! .. .. ..
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