Matibeye Géneviève
Matibeye Géneviève (born 2 September 1987) is a Chadian singer. She represented her country at the 2017 Jeux de la Francophonie in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
Career
[edit]Matibeye Géneviève was born on 2 September 1987 in Doba, southern Chad and is known to her friends as "Genzy".[1][2] Her father moved to Cameroon for work and the family followed him there, Géneviève spent her early childhood in that country before her father and the family returned to Chad.[3] Her mother is also a keen singer.[3] The family is very religious and at the age of 12 Géneviève joined her protestant church's junior choir.[2] Within a few years she had graduated to the church's senior choir.[2] Géneviève has a license to work as a laboratory technician but found work singing in the cabarets of N'Djamena where she became known as the Rossignol (nightingale).[1][3]
Géneviève launched her solo singing career in 2012 and has released several singles in French, Arabic and Ngambay.[3] She is planning to release an album in the near future.[1] Géneviève has sung with fellow Chadian Mounira Mitchala.[2] Géneviève won the world music prizes at the 2015 Darri Awards and at the 2015 NdjamVi Festival.[1] She performed at the 2016 International Women's Day at the Institut Français.[1] Géneviève represented Chad in the singing category at the 2017 Jeux de la Francophonie in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.[4][5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e "Geneviève Matibeye en spectacle à l'IFT de N'Djamena". Journal du Tchad. 8 March 2016. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
- ^ a b c d "Festival NdjamVi: Matibeye Geneviève, lauréate de la catégorie Wold Music". Journal du Chad. 30 November 2015. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
- ^ a b c d Manga, Abel. "Culture : Geneviève Matibeye, la musique dans l'âme!". Yadiri (in French). Archived from the original on 30 July 2018. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
- ^ "Fête de la musique : " Dès lannée prochaine, nous décernerons des prix aux musiciens "". Journal du Tchad. 23 June 2017. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
- ^ "Discipline: Chanson" (PDF). Organisation International de la Francophonie. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
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