Siyou Isabelle Ngnoubamdjum
Siyou Isabelle Ngnoubamdjum (born September 11, 1968 in Bafang , Cameroon ) is an Afro-German gospel singer and choir director.
Career
Siyou Isabelle Ngnoubamdjum was born in Bafang (Cameroon) as the daughter of a Cameroonian Protestant pastor (Martin Ngnoubamdjum, known as "Brother Martin") and a German development worker. The family turned to Germany when she was two years old, so that Siyou grew up in southern Germany. She discovered her extensive vocal possibilities early on and tried them out in both soul and rock styles . In 1987 she turned to gospel and spiritual and trained her voice further.
In 1993 Siyou Isabelle Ngnoubamdjum founded siyou | gospel project , a group dedicated to the performance of music from the “Black Church”. Numerous concerts, radio and television appearances and CD productions followed. In 2004 siyou | gospel academy and the gospel choir see you | singers founded. Siyou Isabelle Ngnoubamdjum goes on concert tours with her groups in Germany, France and Cameroon, helps organize church days and teaches the art of gospel both theoretically and practically. With her music Siyou Isabelle Ngnoubamdjum would like to draw the audience's attention to social grievances; At the same time, she wants to bring the story of black people and their Christian faith closer to their listeners.
With the bass guitarist Hellmut Hattler , she founded the duo Siyou'n'Hell in 2008 , which has released several albums over the years. The self-deprecatingly legible band name is based only on the first names of the actors: Siyou and Hell (mut).
Further activity
Siyou Isabelle Ngnoubamdjum works as a presenter at various Africa festivals in southern Germany (Pforzheim, Stuttgart, Würzburg). In the municipal elections in Baden-Württemberg in 2009 , she was elected from a lower position on the list for Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen in the Ulm municipal council. At the end of 2011, she resigned from her mandate for professional reasons.
Television productions
- ZDF "TV Garden"
- NDR "Current Schaubude"
- BR a portrait with Siyou Isabelle Ngnoubamdjum in the Benedictine monastery Oberelchingen in the series of reports " Gernstl on the way "
- 2005 the movie Gernstls Reisen: In search of happiness , with director Franz Xaver Gernstl
- SWR "State show - a matter of the heart"
- ZDF "Twenty Years of Karlheinz Böhm "
Discography
- 1995: "Otiaa" (Proxima Production PXP6710042)
- 1998: "Negonze" (Proxima Production - PXP6710052)
- 2005: "Gospel live" (sipua productions)
- 2010: "Siyou'n'Hell: Siyou meets Hellmut Hattler" (with Hellmut Hattler )
- 2012: "Siyou'n'Hell: two2one"
- 2015: "Siyou'n'Hell: Soulscape Screenshots"
Web links
- Isabelle Ngnoubamdjum in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Homepage of Siyou Isabelle Ngnoubamdjum
Individual evidence
- ↑ "The bass actually came to me ..." , SWR2 from June 26, 2017, accessed August 3, 2018
- ↑ Isabelle Siyou resigns from the council ( memento of September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Südwest Presse from November 21, 2011.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ngnoubamdjum, Siyou Isabelle |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Cameroonian gospel singer and choir director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 11, 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bafang , Cameroon |