Longue Longue

Longuè Longuè, son of Agno Simon, belongs to a family of five children. His father sent him to Yabassi in 1980 when his mother died.

Unhappily accepted by his uncle who did not want to consider him as a son, Longuè Longuè quickly finds himself in the street. He is perceived by his entourage as a good for nothing. The possibility of continuing his studies is not allowed. He was a salesman on the markets or a water distributor. It’s the music that allowed him to get by. Indeed, very early already, he makes musical instruments with objects of recovery, in particular guitars in plywood and percussions with boxes of empty preserves.

In life, what does not kill us makes us stronger is its “Leit motiv”. He takes life arm in arm by putting his trust in the Lord “the creator Nyambe”, eternal armies. Little by little, he makes contacts in the music by the recognition of his Dons of interpreter.

It begins to occur in the cabarets of Yaounde. Winner of the Mützig contest organized by the breweries of Cameroon, which offers him the opportunity to produce his first album. But success hits his door only when he releases his first album in 2001, album titled Ayo Africa, the flagship song of the album hits a phenomenal success in Cameroon and even beyond the borders. One quickly finds him a nickname, that of the “liberator”. Its stage name, Longuè means in Douala dialect “life”.

His second album Privatization, released in 2003, was less successful; except for the very pious piece “Ask God” where he explains that everything he has comes from the marabouts but from God.

Longuè Longuè knows a great popularity undoubtedly linked to its course. Before becoming famous, he experienced a great misery, a misery he describes in his autobiographical songs, when he does not attack Western neocolonialism. Longuè Longuè is a source of inspiration for many poor people in Cameroon because he represents the one who took his revenge on life.