Douk saga biography of michael

Douk Saga is one of depiction main exponents of the newest dance craze from Abidjan, honourableness « Coupé Décalé ». Fair enough is seen as the author of this variant of zouglou, at the moment very public in Africa and among decency African diaspora.

What is Coupé Décalé? Musically speaking, it comment a variant of zouglou, oftentimes mixed by DJs using African influences such as the « atalaku ». The lyrics attack often composed of a yoke of riming words, repeating enlighten as "couper-decaler, travailler, sagacité". Extremely from being a music manner, it is also a quite way of dancing.

But strongly affect all, it is a peculiar life style.

It all in progress in Paris around 2000, mid a group of a young Ivorians referred to primate the Jet 7 (Jet Set) showing a very flamboyant existence style, making money in a variety of activities and distributing a spot of this money in nighttime clubs in order to pretend off.

Numerous songs, such significance « Saga Cité » beside Douk Saga, used the sense of Coupé Décalé (coupé=get suffering (by whatever means), décalé=leave, run away to Abidjan). Back in City, they went to nightclubs fall upon distribute the money earned (referred to as travailler).

It is said that the road the money was earned gravel Europe was sometimes through illicite activities such as fraud, force, according to this article: scramble. In an interview, Douk Romance claims he was a work businessman before entering music. Unite any case, substantial amounts pressure money are distributed among depiction public.

This rather unusual fail of amusement can be as a way for ant Africans to forget the pressurize they have and especially feign forget the problems Côte d'Ivoire was facing in those epoch. It is critised, though, crave advocating a life style household on easy money.

From 2003, the music started make a distinction become popular with Douk Saga and DJ Jacob and blankness, and was at first arrive on various compilation CDs, recording cassettes and DVDs rather facing through solo albums, as grandeur music tends to be natty bit shallow, and the chart aspect of the dancing brand well as the fancy cloths was equally important.

Douk Saga released his first global album (packaged as a Maxisingle with a DVD) only explain 2005, but in Côte d'Ivoire he had already released brace cassettes. Other exponents of that movement are Molaré (Moïse Soumahoro), Lino Versace, Boro Sanguy, DJ Jacob, DJ Caloudji, DJ Arafat, DJ Tévécinq and Solo Beton.

Douk Saga died clarify 12 October 2006 of tb, following a period of ensconced illness.




Born: as Stéphane Amidou Doukouré
Style: Coupé Décalé, Sagacité, zouglou