Ntjam Rosie 1/3 Rotterdam 2010

Ntjam Rosie 1/3

"Ici La"

http://ntjamrosie.blogspot.com/

Opnames concert World Music & Dance Centre, Rotterdam, 31 januari 2010

Ntjamrosie is geboren in het zuiden van Kameroen en is op haar negende naar Nederland verhuisd. Ze had al op jonge leeftijd een passie voor verschillende kunstvormen. Op haar veertiende begon Ntjamrosie met het schrijven van Nederlandse gedichten.
Tegenwoordig studeert ze Zang aan het Rotterdams Conservatorium. Haar muziek wordt vaak beschreven als R&B of Pop, maar de beste omschrijving is een mix van Wereldmuziek, Jazz, R&B, Soul, Latin en Pop. Haar Afrikaanse roots maken de muziek nog specialer, zij schrijft haar teksten tegenwoordig ook in het Engels, Frans en Bulu. In 2008 is het debuutalbum Atouba van Ntjamrosie uitgekomen. De cd The Mighty 8 is een project van het Nederlands Nationaal Pop Instituut dat focust op nieuw talent. Op deze cd is Ntjamrosie ook te horen.
Op 11 december 2009 nam ze de "VSB MUsic Matters Award" in ontvangst, maar ook de "MCN World Up! Award", tegelijk is ze ook nog eens muzikaal ambassadrice van Rotterdam.

A talented singer/songwriter born in the south of Cameroon. She writes her lyrics, in different languages. Ntjamrosie's music is universal and has no boundries. She calls it "Jazzy AfroSoul". Check her first album ATOUBA. For more info about her stay tuned at www.ntjamrosie.blogspot.com
She moved to Maastricht in The Netherlands at the age of 9. As a young girl she came in contact with music through church music and traditional Cameroon storytelling (which incorporates singing and music). Soon she developed a big passion for the arts, whether it´s film, music or paintings. When she was 14 years old Ntjamrosie started to write in Dutch. Later on she translated her poems and started to compose melodies on them. At that time she was influenced by Soul music and R&B and was singing with her girlfriends for fun. She took a few singing lessons but she never aspired to become a professional singer.
After high school she followed ´Social studies´ in Rotterdam because she felt she owed it to her family to get a good education. She quit after six months and that descicion forced her to think about what she really wanted to do in life. After a friend gave her a helpfull tip she enlisted for the Rotterdam Conservatory. Studying bossa nova´s, bolero´s, jazz standards and so on helps her developing her writing skills and Ntjamrosie discovered that composing music is one of her biggest passions in life. She writes her lyrics in English, French and Bulu (the native dialect of the area where her tribe, the Yengap people, originally come from in Cameroon).

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