A triple bill at Cafe Nine on Saturday Night headlined by Cameroonian touring artist Blick Bassy featured two younger New Haven acts who tipped their hats to those older than they were, even as they ...

It’s only 15 seconds of music, featuring a delicate jingle of banjo and guitar topped with a honeyed song in the dialect of Bassa. Yet it’s 15 seconds that changed everything for Blick Bassy, the ...

Emerging Cameroonian artist Blick Bassy debuts new single "Mpodol" today. The song honors former Cameroonian leader Um Nyobé, translating to "He who carries the voice of his people." The single ...

Composer, singer and songwriter Blick Bassy makes music that celebrates his multiple identities: as a Cameroonian living in France, a polyglot, a travelling artist, and a Pan-Africanist. RFI met him ...

The Kings Place festival hosted an intriguing jazz experimenter from Cameroon, then served up a football-mad Buddhist monk turned music star Blick Bassy is a true original. Born in Cameroon, he has ...

Blick Bassy’s career took off internationally in 2015 when the tech giant Apple took a shine to his subtle falsetto voice and deft banjo playing and used a clip from his album Akö in an ad. His ...

In a tiny village in central Cameroon, musician Blick Bassy discovered his sound. Bassy now lives in Paris, but he continues to sing in his native language, Bassa. Bassa is one of the 250 or so ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Blick Bassy is set to release his new album 1958 on June 21 via No ...

The Cameroonian musician Blick Bassy now lives in the north of France, and this record, conceived as a tribute to the itinerant bluesman Skip James, slips easily into manouche jazz on “Kiki”, with its ...

Imagine an African artist with the tenderly subversive touch of Bon Iver, the haunting falsetto of Skip James, the razor-like mind of Akala, and the inventiveness of Moses Sumney. You’ve just imagined ...