SANDRA NAKAKÉ Winner of 2024 Victoires du Jazz
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1h 14m
Wholehearted, authentic and generous, Sandra Nkaké is a French artist, singer, author and composer born in Cameroon who has created a universe that she never stops reinventing and exploring. Her powerful and singular voice unfolds on stage with a breadth and magnetism that the audience receives as a gift. Sandra Nkaké is one of the most moving voices on the current scene.
After three solo albums and a Victoire de la Musique in 2012, she has seduced audiences and critics alike, on stage at the biggest pop and jazz festivals in France and abroad. She writes and composes her songs by imagining and embodying the singular universe that accompanies them both in the videos she co-writes and in the staging of her shows, her choice of costumes and photos.
Sandra Nkaké has at heart sharing, exchange, the defense of singularities and conceives music not as an end, but as a means: that of creating agoras, vibratory spaces in which everyone could have their place, with their particularities. These values are found in music in the longevity of her collaboration with Jî Drû as much as in the creations and encounters she has made. If song is present in his career with the creation of the acoustic trio ELLES, his duet with La Chica, Protest Songs (a cappella quartet with Jeanne Added, Camélia Jordana and Raphaële Lannadère), jazz is just as present, as evidenced by his collaborations with Jî Drû quartet, Tribe From The Ashes, Autour de Chet or TRIO SR9. They are also found in her choices in theatre and cinema but also in the workshops she conducts on the sidelines of her tours, her residencies and in collaboration with various associations (singing workshops, master classes, with women's groups).
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