K-Tino
K-Tino (born 12 October 1966 as Cathérine Edoa Ngoa) is a Cameroonian singer who shot to fame in her home country with her energetic bikutsi music.
Bikutsi music is characterized by an up-tempo 6/8 rhythm, danced with energetic pulsations of shoulders and/or pelvis. For more than ten years now, K-Tino (on earlier albums Catino) has been one of the main exponents of bikutsi. Her lyrics are quite explicit, although she herself denies that she is vulgar, saying ” I am not vulgar, I do not make vulgar spectacles. If I am vulgar, then the Ewondo language is vulgar.” A key to bikutsi is the subtlety of the sexual content, which is hidden by changing non-vulgar words very slightly in the Ewondo language. The media dubbed K-Tino as “femme du peuple,” “mama bonheur,” and “mama la joie.” K-Tino began singing in Chacal and Escalier Bar, later joining the band Les Zombies de la Capitale.
In early 2014 K-tino stated that she has stopped doing obscene music and has now given her life to god. She is starting a church called Celestial City in the Gabonese capital.
K-Tino’s daughter, K-Wash, is also a bikutsi performer.
