Afrotronix

Actively teaching AI and its digital structures how to speak the language of our African elders, Afrotronix infuses new technologies with the wisdom of the ancients.

As a flagbearer of a new wave of Afrobeats and introducing a vast Sahelian electronic movement, Afrotronix offers an experience of very avant-garde electronic sounds, mastering and unleashing the soul of the best voices of African musicians, electric guitars, percussion, and drums. In doing so, it intertwines ancient codes and algorithms with futuristic concepts, creating a magnificent fusion of the past and the present, an afrofuturism emerging from Chad and based in Canada with a pan-African ambition.

Saharan Electro Blues is Afrotronix's signature and it brings Afro-futurism in urban fashion, dance, social engagement, Electronic music and digital art.

What innovative vision of the future could a Canadian artificial intelligence infused by ancestral wisdom and African algorithms produce?

He creates meaningful mass events, aiming for artistic excellency and strong storytelling, celebrating common good for massive impact on community, initiating international collaborations with Africa, with projects like Peace in Sahel and Les Aunties (Women empowerment through cultural entrepreneurship and artistic excellency)
Heir and builder of a long sahelian musical tradition, Afrotronix has won several international prizes including best artist at the Hollywood and African Prestigious Awards (2022), best African electro (2019) and best African DJ (2018) at the All Africa Music Awards.

Afrotronix is the first Chadian personality to experience international success, becoming at the same time a leading figure in Chadian culture.

Driven by Chadian guitarist and Montreal-based producer Caleb Rimtobaye, his collaborations include artists like Baaba Maal, Youssou N’dour, Salatiel, Lorenzo Jovanotti and Mbongwana star Brian Kennedy (Rihanna, Chris Brown).

Recognized for these daring musical mixtures and wearing the DOM, the helmet is a symbol of an updated ancestral knowledge.

His next album, Future Tribe, create a new stream in Saharan electro showcasing an avant garde image of Africa and Canada, where music is a tool for social change.

18 AWARDS

BEST AFRICAN DJ
BEST AFRICAN ACT
BEST AFRICAN ELECTRONIC ARTIST
AFRIMA (ALL AFRICAN MUSIC AWARD) (2019) (2018)
BEST INTERNATIONAL MUSIC ARTIST
HOLLYWOOD AND AFRICAN PRESTIGIOUS AWARDS (2022)
BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTIST OF THE YEAR
PRESTIGIOUS HAITIAN MUSIC AWARDS (2022)
MTV BEST ALTERNATIVE ACT,
MTV AFRICA MUSIC AWARD NOMINATION FOR 2021
BEST ARTIST IN THE DIASPORA
DTV MUSIC AWARDS (2022)
BEST CHADIAN MUSICIAN ARTIST
ASSOCIATION CHADIAN NATIONALS IN QUEBEC (2022)
BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTIST OF THE YEAR
ASSOCIATION CHADIAN NATIONALS IN QUEBEC (2022)
CITIZEN OF THE YEAR
BEST CHADIAN ARTIST
CHAD AWARDS (2021)
SOCAN HARDY HAGOOD AWARD
SOCAN CANADA (2019)
BEST ARTIST
QUEBEC BLACK EXCELLENCE BY TD GALA DYNASTIE (2019)
(H’SAO) EXCELLENCE AWARD
CONTACT OTTAWA SHOWCASE, 2003
(H’SAO) WINNER AT IV JEUX DE LA FRANCOPHONIE, 2001


ALBUMS
#1 FUTURE TRIBE (Afrotronix) #2 IYA (Les Aunties) #3 BAROKAN (Djely Tapa) #4 NOMADIX (Afrotronix) #5 TAAR (Elété) #6 SAOTRONIX (Afrotronix) #7 SAAR (H'Sao) #8 ORIA (H'Sao) #9 VOL 235 (H'Sao) #10 H'Sao (H’Sao)

LARGEST STAGE
Loulé 20 years (Portugal)
MTN Bushfire (Eswatini)
Sakifo (Reunion Island)
Rock Al Parque (Colombia)
Paix Au Sahel (Chad)
Jova Beach Party (Italy)
MAPAS Tenerife (Spain)
Amsterdam Roots Festival, (Netherlands)
The REC BEAT (Brazil)
WOMAD Festival (Chili)
Wavelength Summer Festival, Toronto
Place de la Nation (Chad)
Festival du Jazz, Montréal Cinés (Portugal)
Afropunk Paris (France)
Lincoln Center (New York City)

TOUR
2024: Portugal
2023: Afrique du Sud, Ile de la Réunion, Cameroun, Swaziland
2022: Canada, Espagne, Colombie, France
2021: Tchad - PAIX AU SAHEL
2019: USA, Canada, Chili, Mexique, Italie, France, Espagne, Danemark, Brésil. Colombie
2018: Tchad, Cap Vert, Tanzanie, Mexique 2017: Maroc, USA, France
2016 :France, Portugal, USA
2013/14/15: USA, France, Chad
2011/2012: Colombia, Quebec, Canada
2010: Australia, USA, Hong Kong, South Korea
2006: Hong Kong, Corée du Sud, Australia
2004/5: Australie, Nouvelle Zélande, Roumanie, France, Belgique, Suisse, Afrique