Joy Frempong

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Joy Frempong with Filewile , 2009
"Oy", 2013

Joy Frempong (* 1978 in Bolgatanga , Ghana ) is a Swiss- Ghanaian singer, vocal artist and electronic musician , who is also known by her band and project name " Oy ". She has lived in Berlin for a few years .

Live and act

Frempong, born in Ghana to a Ghanaian father and a Swiss mother, moved with her family to Switzerland at the age of seven, where she grew up in Dietlikon . She completed her Matura in 1998 in Zurich , where she also began studying ethnology and at the same time attended the preliminary course for the jazz school. From 2000 she studied jazz singing in Bern , specializing in pedagogy and composition at the Bern University of Music and Theater .

Frempong was and is active as a singer in various bands and music projects. From 2006 to 2009 she sang with the experimental group “Lauschangriff” and since 2007 with the electro dub band “ Filewile ”. In 2007 she started the joint music project "Tinpong" with the musician and DJ William Bottin . The improv jazz trio Hans Koch , Martin Schütz and Fredy Studer also hired Frempong as a singer for a number of projects. Fredy Studer and Frempong are both also members of the band "Phall Fatale", founded in 2008, where Frempong not only sings, but also plays samplers and various small instruments. In these different formations she performed at the Taktlos Festival in 2007, 2010 and 2012 .

In 2010, after four years of work, she released her first solo album, First Box Then Walk, under the pseudonym “Oy Rempong” or “OY” for short on the Swiss label Creaked Records and performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival. The first pressing of the album was immediately sold out. After the film composer Marcel Blatti aka “Lleluja-Ha” joined “Oy” as drummer, the duo released their second project album in 2013, Kokokyinaka . The duo has been touring internationally since then. She performed with Philippe Ehinger in 2012; the concert album Les voisins ne parlent pas tous la même langue was created for Unit Records .

Discographic notes

  • Because You Are a Girl (2004, Stradivarius)
  • Filewile Blueskywell (2009, Mouthwatering Records )
  • OY First Box Then Walk (2010, Creaked Records)
  • Phall Fatale Charcoal from Fire (2009-10, Kuenschtli.ch; with Joana Aderi, John Edwards , Daniel Sailer, Fredy Studer)
  • OY Kokokyinaka (2012, Creaked Records)
  • Joy Frempong & Philippe Ehinger Les voisins ne parlent pas tous la même langue (2012, Unit Records)
  • OY No Problem Saloon (2014, Crammed Discs )
  • OY Space Diaspora (2016, Crammed Discs )

literature

  • Frank von Niederhäusern: Joy Frempong, musician, singer (Ghana / Switzerland). In: When it comes to the sausage, I fight. 16 portraits of new Swiss nationals. Limmat Verlag , 2012. ISBN 978-3-85791-650-2
  • Hedy Graber, Dominik Landwehr and Philipp Schnyder von Wartensee: Time is now: Pop music in Switzerland today. Limmat Verlag, 2016
  • Theresa Beyer, Thomas Burkhalter and Hannes Liechti: Seismographic Sounds: Visions of a New World. Norient, 2015

Web links

Commons : Joy Frempong  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Black Star Delight: Singer Joy Frempong ( Memento of the original from March 21, 2013 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. , Enewsgh, March 18, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.enewsgh.com
  2. ↑ The New Swiss (Part 2) - Joy Frempong, musician from Ghana ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2013 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. , Bluewin, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bluewin.ch
  3. ↑ A graceful musician full of mischief , Tages-Anzeiger Online, January 30, 2010.
  4. ↑ Snorting, screeching and rapping in Montreux . In: tagesanzeiger.ch/ . ( Tagesanzeiger.ch [accessed October 24, 2018]).
  5. ↑ The musician Joy Frempong ( Memento of the original from June 5, 2013 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. , Arte, November 13, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arte.tv
  6. ↑ Nobody snores as nicely as she does , Tages-Anzeiger Online, March 26, 2013.
  7. ↑ Joy Frempong & Philippe Ehinger “Les voisins ne parlent pas tous la même langue” , musikreviews.de, January 6, 2013.
  8. ↑ Tom Asam: Funeral Pop and the Sacred Electric Guitar. Cover culture magazine , March 27, 2014, accessed on July 8, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Enter Ghanaian-Swiss Group OY's Unique Vision of 'Space Diaspora' . In: KCET . December 5, 2016 ( kcet.org [accessed October 24, 2018]).
  10. ^ Time Is Now - Limmat Verlag. Accessed October 24, 2018 (German).
  11. ↑ Norient: Seismographic sounds - the Book . In: Norient . April 15, 2016 ( norient.com [accessed October 24, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Frempong, Joy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oy (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss-Ghanaian singer, vocal artist and electronic musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Bolgatanga , Ghana