Culture of Saturday, 5 December 2015

Source: kamerkongosa.com

Music artistes are hardworking, stop the envy - Elvis Wonder

Can you tell the fans who is Elvis Wonder?

-My real names are Musa Elvis Anchie. Hails from the north west region. My father comes from Ndu n mom Ngwo-Njikwa sub division, from a family of 5, 4 boys n a girl.Am the 2nd. I sing/rap n a rythmic guitarist, am an actor with 2 movies in the market titled….. Katrina n Upon All Odds. Am a fine Art Artist by profession.

Why the name Elvis Wonder? Is Wonder your real name?

– Elvis is my real name and Wonder is my artistic name.

– Elvis Wonder, because my mother, friends and most people around me used to call me wonder boy and saying I have lot of talent and also that am a great man.The things I do and always keeping people stuttering and muttering.

They refer to me as the man with the magic fingers that's because of the way I manipulate the guitar with my fingers, they call me the man with the wonderful voice and on my paintings, they say am so amazing. So to coin it all I make everyone wonder.

Is Elvis wonder a musician, a painter or both?

– I'm both. Am also an Actor and a guitarist.

What inspire your paintings?

-Nature, culture, the street, the ghetto and most of all the orphans.Am working for them(the orphans) cuz am 1 of them.

What genre of music do you do?

-Afro Soul / Afro Pop and Afro Soul Njang.

Do you earn enough to live off your artistic work?

– I won’t say enough but am contented with what I have at the moment.

How would you rate the Cameroon music scene?

– Well, it’s progressing, I see talents, I see hard working guys. We need some collabo and stop envying one another. We also need support from our government and most of all from our Cameroon brothers and sisters. The need to learn to consume our home products too.

Any favourite Cameroon artiste/artistes you would like to work with?

– Yeah! Sure!!! Why not??? Richard Kings and Charlotte Dipanda.

If you were not an artiste, what would you have been?

– A Journalist.

Is your family in support of your career path?

– Yeah for sure, they already saw talent in me when I was still an infant, especially my mom.

Is Elvis wonder single?

I have a girlfriend and she is so dear to me.

Any word for your fans?

-More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren’t busy denying them. I love love them all