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Cameroonian Soul Musician Blick Bassy

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In today’s culture Eve Jackson meets the man who discovered his sound in a tiny village in central Cameroon. Blick Bassy now lives in Paris, but he continues to sing in his native language, Bassa. Then, one hundred years after his birth, artists were on stage in Paris to pay homage to the father of the jazz manouche Django Reinhardt.

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