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Cameroonian makossa artist (1948–2022)

Ekambi Louis Brillant (18 June 1948 – 12 December 2022) was a Cameroonian makossa artist and singer.

Biography

Brillant was born on 18 June 1948, in Dibombari, a village near Douala, to Ekambi Brillant, a merchant and cultural promoter. He spent much of his childhood with his maternal grandparents in Djébalè (a suburb of Douala); it was there that his passion for music was born, listening to the pirogues singing on their way back from the sea.^[1][2]

In 1962, he passed the entrance exam and was accepted at the Lycée Général-Leclerc in Yaoundé. It was there, under the guidance of Mr. Zane Daniel - a French music teacher - that he learned how to play guitar. In 1971, at the age of 23, he abandoned his studies to join Les crack's as a guitarist. They performed in the nightclub Le Domino. He then entered the music competition launched by the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (ORTF)