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Today we fault our artistes on one hand for “sounding foreign” and, on the other hand, our public for listening to “foreigners” and not “supporting their own”. Kotto Bass over his brief career gave us pointers to a middle way around this dilemma.

On 20 November 1996, Nyamsi Kotto Auger, popularly known as Kotto Bass passed away suddenly following a brief illness at the age of 33. Kotto Bass is widely hailed as one of Cameroon’s musical greats but few are aware that he cemented that fame and legacy with just TWO albums over a solo career that spanned TWO years! What is even more amazing is that half of his repertoire are remixes of old Congolese songs!

The story of his brief career in the public eye begins in 1993, when Makassi Studio recorded a tribute album to Nelle Eyoum. It was a compendium of remixes of Cameroonian standards interpreted by the legends of the day like Henri Njoh, Tom Yoms, Bebe Manga. In this compilation, Kotto Bass – who was at that tim