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Gaby Shunt recently released his EP titled ”Love Cameroon”.
”Love Cameroon” carries a simple message. What binds us is stronger than our diversity.
Therefore, the only answer we can give to our differences is our indifference. Whether we are Anglophones or Francophones, whether we are Béti or bamiléké, we are all sons of Cameroon and brothers.
This fraternity must remain our only compass in these troubled times. As in his previous productions, Gaby Shunt’s music reveals influences; a musical syncretism between religious universes for the themes, and rock and jazz universes for the sounds.
The experts will see without too much difficulty, what it owes to Barclays James Harvest, the Bee Gees, Toto, England Dan and John Ford Colay, John Denver, Guns n Roses, Pink Floyd as well as Beatles.
The track ”Bloodshed No More”, kicks off the EP encouraging Cameroonians to support peace, love and unity instead of violence and war. The song was produced by Sango Edi and Iglo.
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ARTISTE’S BIOGRAPHY
Born on the side of a small valley overlooked by Dschang’s Sacred Heart Catholic mission, Gaby Shunt grew up in the shadow of a singing mother. Naturally, he would serve as a mass, then as a chorister.
He will forever remain imbued with this culture of religious singing, a thematic song by excellence. This singing culture, which will never leave him, will develop and strengthen throughout his career. At the seminary, then at the university where he will be part of the orchestra each time.
His teaching career began in parallel with that of a musician, first in many cabarets in Douala, of which only the memory remains today; Vieux nègre, Grand Café, l’Eden. His sensitivity to the great classics of Rock and Jazz led him to take up many of their hits.
Gaby Shunt’s musical sounds are in fact marked by this Rock and Jazz culture, embedded in religious singing. Gaby Shunt’s music is syncretic like her message.
Differences are a riches, not a threat!
Since his first EP, The other side, the thematic song has been Gaby Shunt’s Ingres violin. He tirelessly ploughs the field of fraternity and solidarity that transcends our differences.
As such, a consistency and coherence emerge in the message he delivers to music lovers up to this last album, via Don’t touch Cameroon.
Gaby Shunt is an apostle of social cohesion and living together, and he is not a worker of the last hour! His latest album is both a response to current fragilities, but it is also a sign of his constancy in the Cameroonian musical space.
Beyond or alongside this musical commitment, Gaby Shunt is also the promoter of the Love Cameroon association. An association bringing together all people, concerned to promote peace and harmony between the different communities that make up our countries, through artistic and cultural expression in general and music in particular.
