(EMAILWIRE.COM, July 28, 2011 ) Houston, TX -- Ebeny Amstrong as he is popularly known by his fans worldwide sat quietly at the front row in the conference room at the Ramada hotel listening attentively as the Chairman of MECA USA Sessekou Maurice Enow delivered the state of the association address during the 2011 MECA USA Annual Convention in Dallas over the July 4th weekend.
Ebeny had travelled from his home city of Atlanta, GA to Dallas as part of a promotional tour of his most recently release Album Tapez-Tapez, where he would later perform that evening. To watch Ebeny Amstrong on stage
Ebeny Amstrong - Tapez-Tapez (You Mess Your Life You Pay The Price)
is to watch Africa in motion. He glides across the stage like a gazelle on the move, and massages notes with the easy of a song bird in love. His audience is captured and brought to their feet in a seductive trance and that leaves them asking for more. His charismatic, yet personable stage presence transposes the Ebeny audience into a blissfully foot taping, head bobing, finger snapping meadow.
Who is Ebeny Amstrong? A Cameroonian recording artist, Ebeny Amstrong is originally from Manyemen, in the Central African nation of Cameroon. He credits his love for music to his late mother Mrs. Pella Ayuk Eben and step-mother Mrs. Agnes Eben who at very early age recognized and nurtured young AmstrongÂ’s God given talents. To grow up in Cameroon where there are no voice lessons or music programs in school, song writing and singing came naturally to Ebeny Amstrong. Although beaten the music bug at an early age, Ebeny the guitarist would only nurse those instincts in favor of academic earning a Master in Biomedical Engineering from the University of London in the United Kingdom, and only returned to his love music; some twenty years later with the release of his first album Baninghe (Water) in 2008.
Where does he draw his inspiration? Ebeny Amstrong is inspired by other recording artist, cornucopia of Pop, R& B and Afro-Caribbean artists like the late Michael Jackson, Awilo Longomba, Koffi Olamide. He calls himself a world music artist. Watching Ebeny Amstrong perform, one can certainly see why, he morphs from western to Afro rhythms. He goes from R&B to zouk, makossa, couper decale, bekoussi, manyu folk with the easy of a tree swaying in a gentle breeze and the grace of an eagle in flight.
As the CEO of EbenyAmstrong production, Ebeny enjoys collaboration with other African artists like Emile Kangue, producing music videos for other artist like Prince Eyango, Manyu folk artist Bate Nico, and writing scores for movies like the recently released into DVD movie Bound for Iraq. When not on stage and away from the studio, Ebeny Amstrong resides in quite in Suburbia Atlanta as Eben Amstrong, a Senior Biomedical Engineer with Atlanta-based Medshare.
(EMAILWIRE.COM, July 28, 2011 ) Houston, TX -- Ebeny Amstrong as he is popularly known by his fans worldwide sat quietly at the front row in the conference room at the Ramada hotel listening attentively as the Chairman of MECA USA Sessekou Maurice Enow delivered the state of the association address during the 2011 MECA USA Annual Convention in Dallas over the July 4th weekend.
