Jessy Matador

Jessy Matador at the Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo (2010)

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

African New Style   FR 93 11/29/2008 (15 weeks) Electro Soukouss   FR 42 06/19/2010 (14 weeks) Authenticity   FR 174 07/20/2013 (1 week)

Singles

Décalé gwada   FR 14th 07/05/2008 (38 weeks) Mini kawoulé   FR 16 02/14/2009 (40 weeks) Allez Ola Olé   DE 17th 06/25/2010 (13 weeks)   AT 63 07/16/2010 (4 weeks)   CH 59 04/07/2010 (7 weeks)   UK 81 06/12/2010 (1 week)   FR 1 05/29/2010 (35 weeks) Dansez (ft. Daddy Killa)   FR 86 04/16/2011 (1 week) Galera (ft. King Kuduro & Bra Zil)   FR 68 09/10/2011 (4 weeks) Zuluminati   FR 166 11/29/2014 (2 weeks) Johnny Bilayo   FR 172 03/16/2015 (1 week)

Jessy Matador (* 27. October 1982 as Jessy Kimbangi ) is a singer and dancer from the Democratic Republic of Congo . In 2010 he took part in the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) for France .

biography

Jessy Matador was born as Jessy Kimbangi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (until 1997 Zaïre). Inspired by hip-hop and the obscenely criticized Congolese dance style N'dombolo , he began a career as a dancer in 2001 at the age of 18. He joined Dany Engobo's French-African formation Les Coeurs Brisés , with whom he performed in his native Congo, Europe and North America. In 2005 Matador started his own dance group, the five-member La Selesao . With their program Le Show Kanawa , which is based on African rumba , La Selesao was won as a support act for Magic System and performed in the Parisian concert hall Bataclan . In 2008, the matador, who now lives in France, attracted attention as a singer. The title Décalé gwada , released in June , became a summer hit and made it into the French charts, while the music video was viewed by four million people on the Internet. Thereupon Matador released his first album Afrikan New Style at the end of November , whose single Mini kawoulé was also able to assert itself in the French charts for weeks from December 2008. Matador's songs are influenced by the styles Coupé Decalé , Zouk , N'dombolo and Kuduru, but also by dancehall and hip-hop.

In April 2009, Matador released the compilation Hits Des Tout-Petits . A year later, the singer and dancer was internally designated as a French participant in the 55th Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo . Organizer France Télévisions wanted a “dynamic contribution with choreography” after thinking about sending various French artists such as the Nouvelle Star winner Christophe Willem and rumors about the sending of the DJ David Guetta . As a French candidate automatically set for the ESC final on May 29, 2010, Matador performed the French-language title Allez Ola Olé and took twelfth place. The song reached the same time in the French singles chart top spot .

Allez Ola Olé , composed and written by Hugues Ducamin and Jacques Ballue, is to be used by French television for the broadcast of the soccer World Cup from South Africa and also reached number 17 in the German charts. His second album Elektro Soukouss was released on June 14, 2010 .

Discography

Albums

• 2008: Afrikan New Style
• 2010: Elektro Soukouss

Singles

• 2008: Décalé gwada
• 2008: Mini kawoulé
• 2010: Allez Ola Olé
• 2010: Bomba
• 2011: Dansez (feat. Daddy Killa)
• 2011: Galera (feat.King Kuduro & Bra Zil)
• 2014: Zuluminati
• 2015: Johnny Bilayo

Web links

Commons : Jessy Matador  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website (French)
• Jessy Matador at eurovision.de
• Jessy hero at Discogs (English)

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1. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: FR DE AT CH UK
2. ↑ cf. Portrait at eurovision.ndr.de (accessed on April 2, 2010)
3. ↑ cf. Presentation on MySpace (French; accessed April 2, 2010)
4. ↑ cf. Hondal, Victor: France sends Jessy Matador to Oslo at esctoday.com, February 19, 2010 (accessed April 2, 2010)
5. ↑ ^{a b} cf. Didier, Carine: Il représentera la France à l'Eurovision . In: Le Parisien , March 20, 2010 (accessed April 2, 2010 via LexisNexis Wirtschaft )
6. ↑ cf. Votre Semaine . In: Midi Libre , March 29, 2010 (accessed on April 3, 2010 via LexisNexis Wirtschaft )
7. ↑ ^{a b} cf. Schacht, Andreas: Jessy Matador to represent France? at eurovision.tv, February 19, 2010 (accessed April 2, 2010)
8. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ cf. 'Elektro Soukouss', le nouvel album de Jessy Matador on evous.fr (accessed May 4, 2010)