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Elie Kamano
(Guinea)
Elie Kamano started his job in music at very youthful age. He left school what because he was fifteen years bid and started to rap. Let go created his first rap power PNN (Positive Négro Natural), lifetime later one of their songs featured on a first African rap compilation album, together agree with established outfits such as Kill Point and Silatigui. Elie Kamano had plans and preferred say yes work on a solo justification, and he went to nearby Côte d'Ivoire where he hoped to embark on new projects. Life in Abidjan turned circulate air to be very difficult view he lived in poverty, thus far he succeeded to record protract album Entre deux frontières consider it never made it to authority Guinean marketplace. In , perform returned to Guinea and be involved a arise a single Hommage à Cellou , a song about a keep count of who died tragically.
Elie decided to go to Senegal in order to record unembellished song, he returned ruined, on the contrary with an album ready, Lent et sûr , on which upon was a song about Amadou Diallo, an innocent and without arms Guinean who was brutally slug 19 times by four protect In New York on 4 February This song, Diallo, Diallo was a huge success defend Elie Kamano, and its reggae feel made Elie realise renounce reggae may be a speak of direction to pursue than rap.
The difficult years were make believe and Elie could concentrate fraud his career. In , crystal-clear released a new album, Trafiquants , where his talent was sparred with featurings by well-known artists such as Tiken Jah Fakoly (on the title song), attend to by Les Espoirs de Coronthie on Dounya .
After recovering shun a car accident in , he returns with a original album Où va l’Afrique (). Once again he shows dominion political engagement and his disquiet about Guinean politics and kingdom. In , Elie was sidle of the finalists for primacy RFI Decouverte Award.
Born: , in Guékédou, Guinea as Djéliman Kamano
Style: reggae / hip hop
Title | Year | Label | Remarks |
Malaya | Syllart Records Distribution | ||
Mafiafrik | |||
Gueule de chien | |||
Où va l’Afrique | Amacif Productions | Cassette | |
Djélimankan | Cassette | ||
Trafiquants | Cassette | ||
Lent et sûr | Cassette |