NTJAMROSIE

Singer Ntjamrosie was born in the south of Cameroon and moved to Maastricht in The Netherlands at the age of 9. As a young girl she came in contact with music through church music and traditional Cameroon storytelling (which incorporates singing and music).

When she was 14 years old Ntjamrosie started to write in Dutch. Later on she translated her poems and started to compose melodies on them. At that time she was singing with her girlfriends for fun. She took a few singing lessons but she never aspired to become a professional singer.

After high school she followed ´Social studies´ in Rotterdam. Ntjamrosie quit after six months and that decision forced her to think about what she really wanted to do in life. After a friend gave her a helpful tip she enlisted for the Rotterdam Conservatory.

Studying bossa nova´s, bolero´s, jazz standards and so on helped her develop her writing skills and Ntjamrosie discovered that composing music is one of her biggest passions in life.

Ntjamrosie now writes her lyrics in English, French and Bulu (the native dialect of the area where her tribe, the Yengap people, originally come from in Cameroon). Her music is best described as a combination of world music, jazz, R&B, soul, latin and pop. Her West African roots mixed with these different influences makes that the outcome is something really special.

Early 2008 Ntjamrosie released her debut album 'Atouba', which is named after and dedicated to her mother, who has passed away.