The Most Famous
MUSICIANS from Cameroon
This page contains a list of the greatest Cameroonian Musicians. The pantheon dataset contains 3,175 Musicians, 1 of which were born in Cameroon. This makes Cameroon the birth place of the 74th most number of Musicians behind Philippines, and Tanzania.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Cameroonian Musicians of all time. This list of famous Cameroonian Musicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Manu Dibango (1933 - 2020)
With an HPI of 58.79, Manu Dibango is the most famous Cameroonian Musician. His biography has been translated into 39 different languages on wikipedia.
Emmanuel N'Djoké "Manu" Dibango (12 December 1933 – 24 March 2020) was a Cameroonian musician and songwriter who played saxophone and vibraphone. He developed a musical style fusing jazz, funk, and traditional Cameroonian music. His father was a member of the Yabassi ethnic group, while his mother was a Duala. He was best known for his 1972 single "Soul Makossa". The song has been referred to as the most sampled African song in addition Dibango, himself, as the most sampled African musician in history. He died from COVID-19 on 24 March 2020.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Cameroonian musicians born between 1933 and 1933. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Cameroonian musicians include Manu Dibango.
