Vocalist par excellence, Bassman extraordinare, Richard Bona’s unique blend of native African idioms and Western influences have set audiences on fire across the globe – an event not to be missed!
Richard Bona has come aout with a few albums of his own.
While ‘Scenes from my life’ is more a piece of his own story, the second record, released in 2001 ‘Reverence’, seems to be a graceful bow to the face of the world where Richard is telling us the story of our planet and is touching men and women’s sensibility all over the world. Themes can be serious, the tone is never. Richard Bona likes to say he is a ‘story-teller’ who has ‘a responsibility to make this world beautiful’. The story-teller has already written 2 pages, but, as he poetically explained, his book has got 452 pages and only two have been turned, so the following albums will probably be different, because he has got so much music in his mind.
In other words, the virtuoso has so many different kinds of inspirations that he will try to express a piece of them in each of his creations.
To finish with, let’s add something: because Bona’s blending of his own African musical roots, his jazz sensibilities and poignant lyrical reflections is a perfect recipe that acts like a spell, let’s say we owe him a ‘Reverence’ !
Richard’s latest record seems to be whispering us another sweet story, as it is called MUNIA, which actually means ‘tale’ in the Douala languag