Francis Bebey
About the composer
Francis Bebey was born in 1929 in Cameroon. A many talented man, he sings, plays guitar and several African instruments, but is also a writer and poet (in 1994 he won the Prix Saint Exupéry for a book) and a composer. For the internationally known Kronos quartet he composed a piece for string quartet and pygmy flute.
Bebey died in Paris, France, on 28 May 2001.
About the Stabat Mater
| Date: | ca. 1990 |
| Performers: | Singer, guitar and accompaniment |
| Length: | 4.02 minutes |
| Particulars: | This is a song, a kind of blues and also a short Stabat Mater, written and sung by an African performer. |
| Textual variations: | Only the first line of the poem is used, and the text is about the need for love, in general, and for the virgin Maria in particular, expressed in a mixture of the languages English, French and Douala. The song text is: |
| Colour bar: |
no colorbar, only the first line of the poem is used. |
Information about the recording
| CD: | Disques Ozileka CD 13905: Francis Bebey, Mwana O |
| More info: | I bought this CD in a record shop in the Netherlands in 1998. |
| Soloists: | Francis Bebey, singer and guitar player |
| Other works: | Mwana O |
| Code: | 1998 BEB 01 |
