Eboa Lotin Biography
Emmanuel Eboa Lotin , was born on August 6 , 1942 in Douala Cameroon and died on October 6 , 1997 in Douala , is a Cameroonian artist .
Eboa Lotin Age
Eboa Lotin was born on August 6 1942, He died on October 6 1997 at age 55.
Eboa Lotin Family
Eboa Lotin was born to a housewife and a pastor father . Reverend Adolphe Lotin Same was a religious pastor who renovated the Cameroonian Baptist Church. He is the author of over 400 songs . His parents died when he was only 3 years old. An atrophy due to the injection of quinine paralyzes the left leg at a very young age. Very young, Eboa Lotin experienced moments of discouragement and despair, he starts playing music at the age of eight. In 1962 , he was only 20 when he composed his first song Mulema mam(my heart). In this song, he tells the story of a young, inexperienced couple in which the husband gives his wife a divorce because he does not have enough money to satisfy the excessive ambitions of his wife. He recorded this masterpiece in the studios of Radio-Douala, was very successful but reporting little material satisfaction.
Eboa Lotin Children
He is the Father of five children, Lynda, Henri, Jackie, Cathy and Samuel,
Eboa Lotin Career
He remains confident and cultivates his love for the gift he has from birth, he continues to work day and night until he has met with success. He then composed five songs , including the famous Mbemb’a Mot’a sawa , title with which he won the 1 st prize of the Contest Vick’s Featured (with Duke Ellington , president of the jury and Miriam Makeba jury member), her title allows to discover the city of Paris . He took the opportunity to record his greatest hits (Philips editions). Matumba Matumba and Bésombe win a pan-African and international success.
He was then invited to the 1 st Pan-African Festival of Algiers in July 1969 where he represents Cameroon .
Eboa Lotin is then invited in 1969 by:
- The Emperor Bokassa 1 st in Central
- Marien Ngouabi , Republic of Congo , at the birth of the PCT
- Omar Bongo , in Gabon during the 10 th anniversary of the renovation March 1970
- Mobutu Sese Seko , Zaire
Eboa Lotin Deaths
He dies on October 6 , 1997 in Douala , around 5 pm, at Laquintinie Hospital . His latest work will be released sometime later, posthumously , entitled “Forever”. There are seven songs including Ave Maria that could not be interpreted by its author before his death.
Father of five children, Lynda, Henri, Jackie, Cathy and Samuel, he shared his life between his family, his faith, his music (nearly 70 songs) and his sculpture.
Former student of the primary school of Akwa , He never knew the benches school since he left school in 6 th year of primary school (Average rate 2 th year). He says he is regular illiterate .
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“Elimb’a Dikalo” is the Duala (African language) expression for “Radio”, literally the drum of story-telling. It is also Eboa Lotina track by Cameroonian singer-songwriter Eboa Lotin and a song that defines him: he honestly speaks (sings), like what he would expect of a self-respecting radio to broadcast, about life and its social events, good and bad without sweeping anything under the rug.
In spite of his relatively small amount of releases (about 70 songs and an unfinished album), he is one of the best known and treasured African singer-songwriters of his generation, as well as one of the few ambassador-storytellers deemed griots by talent (as opposed to by blood) in Africa, from Ivory Coast to Gabon via Benin, Central Africa, Cameroon, DR Congo and further.
He spoke many languages including his native Duala but also Lingala which gave him high popularity in the Democratic Republic of Congo and other African countries that shared the language. Thanks to his bringing his music and languages across countries, many tribes realised a fact that started to be buried with the oral knowledge of the ancestors and the times: that tribes define themselves beyond the artificial borders of profiting-man-made countries.
His music is simple and without frills, maybe because as he would say he knew nothing about music theory. However his talent is undeniable and his melodies still haunt today’s generations from Cameroon and the rest of Africa to far beyond, in Western countries as well as Latin America. He persisted pass discouragement, against all odds, until he eventually met to success. Self-taught, he was an artist first, excelling in music and sculpture.
His personality transpired in his songs, with fun and laughter in some songs, cries and pain in others exploring the wide range of social issues. His website reports that he remained the same humble man with the same prayer to God “Winning the law suit against the stomach and make a report to the sceptic tank
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