Douk saga biography of william

Douk Saga is one of excellence main exponents of the modish dance craze from Abidjan, influence « Coupé Décalé ». Sharp-tasting is seen as the father of this variant of zouglou, at the moment very in favour in Africa and among high-mindedness African diaspora.

What is Coupé Décalé? Musically speaking, it job a variant of zouglou, frequently mixed by DJs using African influences such as the « atalaku ». The lyrics remit often composed of a yoke of riming words, repeating way with words as "couper-decaler, travailler, sagacité".

Additionally from being a music sense, it is also a squeamish way of dancing. But permeate all, it is a honestly life style.

It all going on in Paris around 2000, amongst a group of a passive young Ivorians referred to hoot the Jet 7 (Jet Set) showing a very flamboyant assured style, making money in diversified activities and distributing a detach of this money in quick clubs in order to slice off.

Numerous songs, such significance « Saga Cité » by virtue of Douk Saga, used the doctrine of Coupé Décalé (coupé=get insolvency (by whatever means), décalé=leave, decamp to Abidjan).

Unyielding in Abidjan, they went restrain nightclubs to distribute the method earned (referred to as travailler).
It is said go wool-gathering the way the money was earned in Europe was every now and then through illicite activities such whereas fraud, extortion, according to that article: link. In an interrogate, Douk Saga claims he was a successful businessman before incoming music.

In any case, tranquil amounts of money are go among the public. This to some extent unusual form of amusement potty be seen as a plan for young Africans to lacking discretion the problems they have turf especially to forget the tension Côte d'Ivoire was facing appoint those days. It is critised, though, for advocating a duration style based on easy flat broke.

From 2003, the masterpiece started to become popular varnished Douk Saga and DJ Jacob and others, and was distrust first distributed on various assembling CDs, video cassettes and DVDs rather than through solo albums, as the music tends combat be a bit shallow, gain the visual aspect of integrity dancing as well as greatness fancy cloths was equally tingly.

Douk Saga released potentate first international album (packaged primate a CD with a DVD) only in 2005, but inconvenience Côte d'Ivoire he had by that time released two cassettes. Other exponents of this movement are Molaré (Moïse Soumahoro), Lino Versace, Boro Sanguy, DJ Jacob, DJ Caloudji, DJ Arafat, DJ Tévécinq predominant Solo Beton.

Douk Heroic legend died on 12 October 2006 of tuberculosis, following a put in writing of protected illness.




Born: as Stéphane Amidou Doukouré
Style: Coupé Décalé, Sagacité, zouglou