Results for "Richard Bona"

Richard Bona

Born: October 28, 1967

Born in 1967 in the village of Minta in East Cameroon, Richard Bona grew up in a home filled with music. He began to perform in public at the age of five, singing in the village church with his mother and four sisters. His earliest instruments were wooden flutes and hand percussion. Eventually he constructed his own 12-string acoustic guitar. After moving to the bigger city of Douala, Richard began playing gigs at the age of 11 on a rented electric guitar. A major turning point in his life happened in 1980 when a Frenchman came to his town and established a jazz club in a local hotel. The club owner heard about the young local prodigy and hired him to assemble a band

Boarding Pass

By Reginald Policard

Label: Encuentro Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Encuentro Theme; Sabor Caribeño; Sine; Melancolia; Sa'K Pasé ; Boarding Pass (feat. Sammy Figueroa); Celebration; Sabor Caribeño; Choucoune (feat. Jeff Policard); Toda Fé - (feat Gilmar Gomes, Richard Bona & Angelique Kidjo)

Boarding Pass (feat Sammy Figueroa)

May 20, 2024

Album: Boarding Pass
By Reginald Policard
Label: Encuentro Music
Released: 2024
Duration: 5:07

Brian Lynch: Con Clave Vol.2

by C. Andrew Hovan
January 4, 2024

The jazz musician's road to success and sustainability is a rocky one, marked with more than its share of ups and downs. Becoming the norm as of late, those with the strongest staying power have increased their flexibility by becoming more diverse in their efforts. The affect is thus twofold-providing an income to pay the rent, ...

Bergamo Jazz Festival 2023

by Luciano Rossetti
April 27, 2023

A collection of photos from the Bergamo Jazz Festival in Bergamo, Donizetti Theater and other locations, directed by Maria Pia De Vito, from March 19, 2023, to March 26, 2023 featuring Hamid Drake honoring Alice Coltrane guest Shabaka Hutchings, Joey Baron Trio, PanOrchestra, Rita Marcotulli--Paolo Fresu Duo, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Lakecia Benjamin, Richard Galliano Trio, Richard ...

Bergamo Jazz Festival 2023

by Libero Farnè
March 31, 2023

Bergamo Jazz Festival 2023 Bergamo Varie sedi 23-26.3.23 Quarantaquattresima edizione dell'importante festival lombardo: l'ultima sotto la direzione artistica di Maria Pia De Vito, che ha avuto il gravoso handicap di iniziare il suo mandato in concomitanza dell'insorgere della pandemia, che ha colpito in modo particolarmente funesto proprio questa zona d'Italia. Il ...

Il Volo del Jazz 2022

by Luca A. d'Agostino
January 7, 2023

Meeco: Keeping It Real

by Chris May
July 11, 2022

The Berlin-based producer and composer Meeco has a niche but devoted following, built up over a series of romantically inclined and elegant albums released between 2009 and 2014. The discs, which have pronounced Latin flavours, are Amargo Mel (Connector, 2009), Perfume E Caricias (Connector, 2010), Beauty Of The Night (Connector, 2012) and Souvenirs Of Love (Double ...

Ksenia Parkhatskaya: Colours

by William H. Snyder
October 25, 2021

Lionel Messi has left Barcelona but excellence hasn't. Barcelona-based Ksenia Parkhatskaya is a performer whose skills are as varied in the creative arts as Senor Messi's are on the football pitch. The breadth of her talent is unique making it difficult to excel in one thing, but blessed as she is, she excels in all she ...

Ibrahim Maalouf: 40 Melodies

by Matt Hooke
December 31, 2020

The age of 40, in America at least, is looked at with fear as the start of middle age. For many, it is a state of limbo; the knee pains say they are not young; however, that black hair says they are not old either. Many people buy a motorcycle or start an ill-conceived fling with ...