Blick Bassy

In 2015, he released the album Akö from which 15 seconds of Kiki were used in Apple's global advertising campaign for the iPhone 6.

[4] Robin Denselow, writing in The Guardian, says: "...his new album echoes the delicacy of bossa nova along with reminders of his other influences, from African styles to the Mississippi blues of his hero Skip James.

This is an easy-going but experimental set in which he plays guitar and banjo, sings in the Cameroonian language of Bassa, and is backed by the unlikely combination of cello and trombone.

He starts by showing off his distinctive voice on a cool, drifting late-night ballad, but then changes direction as he swings into a breezy song that sounds like an African answer to a country-blues hoe-down, before mixing Congolese influences with impressive, bluesy guitar work.

[2] Bassy dedicated this album to the memory of Ruben Um Nyobé whom he considers one of his political heroes and was killed in 1958.