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The hidden son by saxophonist Manu Dibango, producer of Booba and Snoop Dogg, protege of Idris Elba, releases his first album. Meet.
By Anne-Sophie Jahn
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HASscrews to the screenwriters, here is a story that should be adapted to the cinema! The pitch: a young Franco-Cameroonian becomes a major rap producer in the United States, then finds his biological father, a music star, by chance, and goes on tour with him to find his way (and his voice). The young boy is Lee-James Edjouma. Born in France in 1982, he is a pure product of successful multiculturalism. “When I was born, my mother, a Protestant, went back and forth a lot between France and Cameroon and entrusted me to her godfather, a Catholic who became my father at heart, then she married my beau. -father, who is Jewish to him,” he tells the Point in his deep voice, in his studio at 10edistrict of Paris.
“We grew up in love with my two little sisters and…
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