The name Charlo Magique is popular among Cameroonian secondary and high school generation of the 90s, especially in the North West Region of the country. The artist who was fondly referred to as the best choreographer of the time. His new identity which is also his surname, is Vumomse. When Vumomse is mentioned today, the first thing that comes to mind is the-art of dancing.
In short, the US-based dance hero, who is also an up-and-coming gospel singer is a choreography par excellence. “It runs in the blood,” he recently joked when this reporter sought to know if Charlo Magique could still perform the art of dancing as he used to.
With those school dancing days gone, Charlo Magique who simply goes by the name Vumomse has now steered the wheel to a new lane with gospel music in focus. Drawing inspiration from another of his significant blessings, the young Cameroonian singer retreated for a while to work out tracks for his maiden album.
After months of packaging the tracks, Vumomse has sprang with a carefully arranged melody which the public has received with a lot of excitement. The album ‘Rakata’ has been prominent at home and abroad since it was officially made public a couple of days ago.
Reactions to this project have come from the artist’s former schoolmates, friends, movie actors among others. Writing from Canada, Lum Irine Asanji aka LIA said: “Our classmate and brother is making us proud. God never sows useless seeds… He placed them in you {referring to Vumomse} for a purpose. Here is the maturity stage and harvest is around the corner,” she went on.
According to the artist, Rakata which is the key track in the Afropop/Afrobeat album was born while he was driving in his car, with mixed feelings, after a series of wrong happenings in his life. A signal of victory swept across his mind and before he knew it, he was speaking in tongues and hailing God for having done it for him.
Other songs in the six-track album, produced by Slim Beats and Charles Vumomse are ‘A Believe’, ‘Busy Body’, ‘Do Me Again’, ‘Satan Dey Fee My Bad’, and ‘You Too Much’. The songs are done in English and pidgin (lingua franca). Featuring in the album whose videos were directed by M.T Muna (Benzene Creation) and INV Media in the UK are Ewube and Na Me Cyrus.
The official release of Rakata has been billed for Michigan, USA in a red carpet event that will take place at Pi Banquet Center, 28847 Franklin Road, Southfield MI, 48034.
Ahead of the event, Vumomse will be received on Afrikka Radio’s (www.afrikkaradio.com) African Cocktail with Ernest Kanjo on Wednesday, November 26, 2014 at 10am. He has been on the Belgium-run Batimu FM’s African Family Show with Titus Banyoh to talk about Rakata. Below is a teaser of the Rakata video which will be officially out on November, 29
