Vincent Mahey pays tribute to Francis Bebey with the reissue of the album "Dibiye"

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Francis Bebey - deluxe reissue of the album "Dibiye" by the Peewee label © Thomas Dorn

By: Jean-François Cadet Follow

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On the occasion of the anniversary of the death of Francis Bebey, Vincent Mahey reissues "Dibiye": a major album in the discography of the Cameroonian artist. 

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Twenty years ago, on May 28, 2001,

Francis Bebey passed away

, one of the great artists propagating African cultures in France and around the world.

Propagator, on the one hand through music, since he was a singer, musician, musicologist;

another by the words as a writer and journalist (he worked in particular for the ancestor of RFI), or by his action at the head of the music department of UNESCO.

20 years later, the Peewee Music label, directed by the founder of the Sextan studio

Vincent Mahey

, pays tribute to Francis Bebey, by reissuing his album “Dibiye” in a deluxe version. 

On the menu of this Café Gourmand:

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Amélie Beaucour

visited the exhibition of Belgian photographer and visual artist

Fabrice Monteiro

at the Magnin-A gallery in Paris, a story of women of influences that takes us to Gorée and St Louis in Senegal. 

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Fanny Bleichner

went to the National Library of France for the exhibition “

The invention of surrealism: magnetic fields in Nadja

 ”.  

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Carmen Lusmann

, takes us to Chaumont-sur-Loire which hosts, every year, around thirty engaged and poetic gardens during an outdoor exhibition: “

the International Garden Festival of Chaumont-sur-Loire

 ”.

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Alain Pilot

makes us discover Clémentine's album " 

Quel temps-il fait?"

 "

available May 28, 2021. 

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