Music of Cameroon in 1970s

In the 1960s, the recent makossa was established and it became the most famous genre in Cameroon. Makossa is a kind of funky dance music which is best known outside Africa for Manu Dibango. In 1972 single soul Makossa was a global hit, outside of Africa Dibango and makossa were only briefly famous but the genre has produced many pan African superstars through the 70s, 80s and 90s, following the Dibango, a wave of musicians electrified makossa in an attempt to making it more accessible outside the country. Another pop composer in 1970s Cameroon was Andre Marie Tala, a blind composer who had a pair of hits with Sikati and Potaksima.

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By the 1970s the bikutsi performers such as Maurice Elanga, Les Veterans and Mbarga Soukous also added brass musical instruments and found the problem over the pornographic lyrics. The Mana Ohandja also brought bikutsi to recent audiences especially in Europe, while the following years, however, saw the Less Tetes Brulees surpass past artists in international fame, though their response at home was combined.