Popular music of Togo

The internationally recognized artists known as King Mensah, a former artist at the Ki-Yi M’Bock Theatre in Abidjan, traveled to Europe and Japan before launching his own concert in French Guiana and later move to Paris and establishing ensembles known as Favaneva. Bella Bellow is Togo’s renowned artist, and she is frequently compared with the South Africa’s Miriam Makeba. Her profession started after standing for her country in the year 1966 at the Dakar Arts Festival. She started her profession of singing love-oriented ballads in the year 1969, when she worked with Togolese-French producer known as Gerard Akueson and later emerged on French national radio and then the admired Olympia Music Hall. She travelled through music of the world before dying in a car accident in the year 1973, just after recording the hit teamwork with Manu Dibango known as Sango Jesus Christo. In Bellow’s wake came a wave of female singers which include Ita Jourias, Fifi Rafiatou, Mabah, and Afia Mala. Other artists include Jimi Hope. Hope is recognized for politically incisive words and an inventive rock-based pattern.

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Hip hop is one emerge, and in the year 2003 saw the initial Togo hip hop awards ceremony.