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Calypso Rose, the lioness of the jungle ( Cameroun 2011 )

Color: Documentary,color, 85’

Direction: Pascale Obolo

Screenplay: Pascale Obolo

Director of Photography: Sylvain Verdet

Sound: Robin Foster et Williams Schmit

Music: Calypso Rose

Editing: Yannick Courtheron

Cast: Calypso Rose

Production: Dynamo Production

Synopsis

"I did not become a singer of calypso, I was born in the calypso" said Calypso Rose. As Aretha Franklin, Cesaria Evora and Myriam Makeba, Calypso Rose is a singer of soul, gospel and blues. This is a singer of the soul, a diva of popular music. For our delight she is also an irresistible "performer" who, at 70 years old still puts the fire on stages!

Réalisateur

Born in Cameroon, Pascale Obolo studied at the Ecole du Conservatoire Libre du Cinema Français. Passionate about visual arts and music, urban culture pioneer, she filmed the hip-hop movement and Parisian graffiti painters’ scene. She produces reports and documentaries for the Cameroonian television. She collaborates with artists of street art such as Jonone, Shuck, A-One, Jay-ONE and Virgin Music France for which she signed several portraits of artists including Manu Chao, Les Nubians, 3canal, Mungal Patasar, Calypso Rose...