• country:
  Cameroon
• region:
  West Africa
• style(s):
  Afro Jazz
• label:
  Piranha Musik
• type:
  Solist
• gender:
  male
• instrumentation:
  instrumental, vocal
• artist submitted by:
  Piranha Musik

"Our voices are the best instruments that we have. There is no instrument that can do everything that a voice can" Gino Sitson

Gino Sitson is the voice. Through his vocal wizardry and 4.5 octaves, he creates an endless range of sounds combining jazz, gospel, blues and traditional African rhythms and melodies, as well as freely exploring the use of his body as a percussion instrument.
Born in Cameroon, Gino Sitson comes from a long line of musicians, known as Ntontas, ("players of horns"). His mother is a vocalist and choir director and he grew up listening to African traditional music and also the blues and jazz records of his parents' record collection. Before starting his professional career, he went to Paris to study languages and ethnomusicology at the Sorbonne and began making inroads into the professional music world first as a drummer, then as singer, recording and playing alongside Manu Dibango, Papa Wemba, Wally Badarou, Ray Lema, Jorge Ben among others. The release of his first album, "Vocal Deliria", brought him the opportunity to tour in Europe with his Vocal-Afro-Jazz group. In 2000, on a visit to New York, he decided to settle there and further explore the "world of voices", giving concerts, leading vocal workshops, lending his unique vocal skills to movie soundtracks and TV commercials and recording his critically acclaimed second album "Song Zin'".

Links

• Gino Sitson's Website