By Walter Wilson Nana
Fame Fakeh Bunyui artistically known as Fame Bee, has launched her way into the world of showbiz with an album titled Don’t Touch.
The six-track CD of Fame Bee, who doubles as a Journalist with the CRTV National Station in Yaoundé has been produced by Red Feather Production. It was made available to the Buea public recently in a colourful and action-packed ceremony at the concert hall of Alliance Franco-Camerounaise, AFC.
Fame Bee performing at the AFC Concert Hall in Buea
In the album Don’t Touch, you will find the following tracks; Don’t Touch, Since You’ve Been Gone, I Can Do, featuring Richard Kings, A chaque Fois, done with Guy Michel, Way That You Love and the sixth, Happy Day.
The Don’t Touch launch was also an occasion for the award-winning The Virgin’s Monologue, written by David Chuye Bunyui, father of Fame and dramatised by Fame Fakeh Bunyui to be performed in Buea for the first time after they received the award in Paris, France a year ago. The event highlighted a father/daughter collaboration in the arts, while encouraging the talents embedded in a child to blossom. “I have discovered that my daughter has other talents in the sidelines of her profession, Journalism. It is never too much for somebody to have more than one talent to develop. I found it good to encourage her in her endeavours, especially in writing her songs, arranging them and more. As a father, it is my duty to encourage such a child,” Chuye Bunyui said.
Chuye Bunyui, who is the Director of CRTV Southwest Region, said the notion of the yesteryears that parents did not encourage their children to pursue a career or a passion in the arts and music in particular was ignorance. “In our days, my parents used to beat me because I went playing football. Who knows, I might have been a big time footballer today like Samuel Fils Eto’o. Some of us ran away because we played football in hiding. If you see a child like Fame with a lot of talents, please, encourage him or her. You never know what happens tomorrow,” he advised.
Fame Bee corroborated her father; “He was very happy that I could think about doing music. I remember imitating other artists and he told me; do your own songs. I was motivated to write and here I am in music.”
She expressed optimism, adding that the feedback is good. “It is difficult, as a new artist to get accepted with a new album but I am happy that people have begun to come closer to me and my music.”
Fame Bee said no matter the challenges, she will excel with determination. “If you are determined, you will make it. That’s my driving force. I invite Cameroonians to keep buying the CDs like hot cake and keep listening to it. That’s the best way they can encourage me,” she noted.
A fan at the launch, Mrs Bertha Fonyam will not hide her satisfaction. “I’m impressed and reassuring that the youths can do what we saw at the show. It’s an indication that they will do better than our generation. They should keep up with Cameroonian rhythms and cultures and make them competitive in the international scene. I go home now singing; I can do, I can do…”
Other musical bands and artists who came to support Fame Bee included; Richard Kings, Bright Phase, The Crescendo and The Rhythms.
