Camerounian of father and mother, Born in 1998 in Yaoundé, MENGOUMOU AYIA THIERRY with the pseudonym of TENOR, is a young impassioned of the urban music of Cameroon that represents valorously through its various ideologies and passions.
He then began his studies at the age of 3 or he succeeded despite his musical attraction to excel in most of his kindergarten classes in Yaoundé. Then, dedicates 3 years of a part of his years to primary school to the city of Bertoua and obtains his certificate of the primary studies without any difficulties to saint Vincent palloti of nkol-eton a yaoundé. He began high school in 2009 at the retirement college, where he spent one year and then obtained his certificate of undergraduate studies without any failures recorded during these 4 years at the Catholic Father Monti college. As much attract by music as marketing, the young prodigy launches his studies on the side of the technical education in action and commercial communication still called g3 where he was in first class on the side of Edéa and obtained his probation of a Blow and continuous y in Terminal class.
TENOR began to write songs at the age of 7, particularly attracted by the manners and culture of elsewhere, which he will not hesitate to interpreted during the extracurricular events. He made in 2009 the Academy Music’Art EUTHERPE of bastos where he made singing lessons. But TENOR, interested in wanting to listen to his works to his friends, begins to be attracted to recording studios rather than singing lessons. He then met his great-brother GHISLAIN LAROCHE who underwent intense training to perfect the sense of his talent in his label LAROCHE ENTERTAINMENT became KING AND BEN LAROCHE STUDIO where he recorded his first single entitled MAMAN paying homage to his mother and All of them in the world, and works with Cameroonian artists and revelations such as DJ SAIZO, 2 SANS 2, DOC CHAKALLO, KINGO … Hence this meeting with the band and GAME BOYS, with whom he works today under the Label 937 muzikstar. With this label, the young prodigy will do wonders, performances by dozens such as the first part of shaba tiger and lynsha in douala, the international event ya-fe session 2013 and 2014, fomaric 2013 and many others … , A videogram called GOOD STYLE featuring with GAME BOYS and MISSI G STILL DASH and meets occasionally several big brothers such as: TONY NO BODY, BOUDOR, VIBRI, STILL DASH (his homeboy), STANLEY ENOW, SAH VANE, TAPHIS … by listening to the words and advice of these, he later decided to build ideologies with the Cameroonian, and will therefore make a single that will be out of the normal in the urban music scene Cameroon called ALLELUIA under the label 937 musik star. The piece quickly became appreciated and subsequently decided to make a videogram with the famous SHAMAK ALLHARAMADJI OF BRAIN FILMS already available.
TENOR never stops working and put on the internet his first freestyle titled CAMEROUNAIS. The song is very quickly noticed appearing on several famous websites and magazines online, thus bringing a different way of seeing things with regard to the Cameroonian image to announce the release of his videogram, and well ‘other. Tenor is the first to release a number of freestyles, including the one named dorobucci, while announcing the release of his upcoming single ebanflang, which ranked number one on the top 50 of the vrjmusic standings in front of several hits and hits at the same time. He subsequently announces a single titled #TEDLN (Tu Es Dans Le Ndem) which is a very famous expression in Cameroonian slang designating someone in a very bad situation in every sense of the word. The young TENOR does not allow himself to be silenced and criticized by leaving on June 17 his single #DoLeDab and formalizes his signature in collaboration with BIG DREAMS ENT and WAR MACHINE, which is considered a hit for several contemporaries. The result for this brilliant Cameroonian talent will tell us more.
The young artist advocates Cameroonian culture, and gives special interest to the hip-hop mboa, a spicy RAP with sauce from Cameroon, tackling very varied themes in his pieces while taking inspiration from the local (make real the dream for Cameroon) .