Douk Saga (R.I.P)
Douk Saga, born 22 May 1974 in Yamoussoukro, Lacs and died on 12 October 2006 in Ouagadougou, Centre, is a singer and actor Ivorian. Nicknamed “President”, he took on the musical culture considerable influence. Pioneer of cut-shifted – it helps to first popularize the Ivory Coast and then across Europe – and music marketing, it is considered a major African artist of the XXI century.
He is remembered as a brief and meteoric career, marked by the promotion of a hedonistic and casual style, with his musical group, the Ivorian Jet Set, he is seen by his fans as the creator of dance and musical genre Ivorian said cut-shifted, renamed in Africa and some European and American countries.
Since 2003, he was awarded the promotion on the banks of the lagoon Ébrié concepts of the shifted-cut and travaillement. The travaillement of throwing banknotes clippings about a person or an artist to encourage it. It also is to see the person who “works”.
The first dance of the offset-cut have been created since the Parisian nightclubs by the band at Douk Saga, Le Molare, Lionel Patasse said the owner of LP records Abidjan, Andy Cacharel, say his supporters. These young people loving to have fun and loving attention to themselves wherever they go. These are boucantiers.
Artist popular yet controversial, his (short) career was marred by rumors claiming he had amassed his fortune (he distributed at the meetings of “travaillement”) illegally. However, to date, no official information reported proceedings against him.
“The President,” as it was called, died in Ouagadougou, where he was treated, following a chronic lung disease, leaving in the plight of thousands of fans. His funeral was worthy of a head of state.
Douk Saga, died Thursday, 12 October in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, following a lung disease. He was 32 years old and had helped in the space of a life lived in fast, reinvented African music by imposing, with a handful of friends, the “cut-shifted” at once dance, musical style and lifestyle.
