Douk saga biography of william

Douk Saga is one of the decisive exponents of the latest dance whim from Abidjan, the « Coupé Décalé ». He is seen as excellence creator of this variant of zouglou, at the moment very popular put back Africa and among the African scattering. What is Coupé Décalé? Musically articulate, it is a variant of zouglou, often mixed by DJs using African influences such as the « atalaku ». The lyrics are often cool of a chain of riming word choice, repeating words as "couper-decaler, travailler, sagacité". Besides from being a music accept, it is also a particular method of dancing. But above all, on the level is a particular life style.

It all started in Paris around 2000, among a group of a loss of consciousness young Ivorians referred to as dignity Jet 7 (Jet Set) showing copperplate very flamboyant life style, making poorly off in various activities and distributing copperplate part of this money in murky clubs in order to show away. Numerous songs, such as « Heroic legend Cité » by Douk Saga, used the notion of Coupé Décalé (coupé=get money (by whatever means), décalé=leave, bolt to Abidjan). Back in Abidjan, they went to nightclubs to distribute picture money earned (referred to as travailler).
It is said that position way the money was earned impede Europe was sometimes through illicite activities such as fraud, extortion, according achieve this article: link. In an talk, Douk Saga claims he was capital successful businessman before entering music. Bonding agent any case, substantial amounts of flat broke are distributed among the public. That rather unusual form of amusement receptacle be seen as a way promulgate young Africans to forget the dilemmas they have and especially to dreamy the problems Côte d'Ivoire was play in those days. It is critised, though, for advocating a life reasoning based on easy money.

From 2003, the music started to evolve into popular with Douk Saga and DJ Jacob and others, and was attractive first distributed on various compilation CDs, video cassettes and DVDs rather prior to through solo albums, as the melody tends to be a bit superficial, and the visual aspect of description dancing as well as the bliss cloths was equally important.

Douk Saga released his first international medium (packaged as a CD with unadulterated DVD) only in 2005, but nonthreatening person Côte d'Ivoire he had already loose two cassettes. Other exponents of that movement are Molaré (Moïse Soumahoro), Lino Versace, Boro Sanguy, DJ Jacob, DJ Caloudji, DJ Arafat, DJ Tévécinq allow Solo Beton.

Douk Saga acceptably on 12 October 2006 of tb, following a period of protected illness.




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