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De Manne is a Cameroonian singer-songwriter and independent artist working in Afro-fusion, Afrosoul, R&B and reggae. Rooted in Cameroon, shaped by a global ear, he writes about the things people carry: ambition, love, doubt, and the long work of becoming who you said you would be.

De Manne makes music the way other people keep a journal. A Cameroonian singer-songwriter working across Afro-fusion, Afrosoul, R&B and reggae, he builds songs out of the ordinary weight of a life: the ambition you admit to nobody, the relationships that change your shape, the mornings you decide to keep going.

The sound is deliberately fluid. A record can lean soulful and slow, then turn on a rhythm that could only have come from home. What holds it together is not a formula but a centre of gravity: melody first, feeling before polish, and an African foundation that never has to announce itself.

He came up independent and has stayed that way, releasing on his own terms since 2022. Two EPs, a run of singles, three awards, and a catalogue of videos built with collaborators rather than a machine. The work has travelled further than the budget behind it, gathering millions of views and a listenership that reaches well past Cameroon.

The current chapter, This Industry Needs Me, is the clearest statement of that so far: an artist declining to wait for permission, and building his own world instead.