Les Têtes Brulées🇨🇲: 1980-1990's Bikutsi Success

Their career began in the 1980s after their first visit to Cameroon TV in 1987, the Heads Brulées enter into legend. Their music takes ancestral rhythms bikutsi but brought up to date in a much style electric guitar thanks to Zanzibar. Their eccentric costumes, their half-shaven skulls and white paint on the body they are quickly becoming the most famous bikutsi group in Cameroon and in the world. Still, many critics and fans of the genre only accept their hard pop and electric kind.

The group is formed by Jean-Marie Ahanda joined by guitarist Zanzibar (Epeme Theodore). Zanzibar is known for his way to ring his guitar like a balafon by attaching a rubber foam on the bridge of his guitar. The death of Zanzibar in 1988 threatened to end the band. The group is the new member which can record new songs and remake albums.

The Burnt heads is their first album, with only the bikutsi. The texts are engaged and targeted many social problems in Cameroon.

The group toured throughout Africa, Europe, the US and Japan. During the French tour in 1988, the director Claire Denis, who noticed them in Yaounde, decides to go with them on tour. It draws a movie: Man No Run. The group also supports the national team of Cameroon during the World Cup match against Italy.

The group of trumpeter's son is none other than Mr Ice, A member of The Young And's group.

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