Bisseh Akamé - Chansons, Jazz, Bossa Nova & Soul
NEW SHOW 
AND CD "FROM BERLIN TO BROADWAY!"
Bisseh Akamés new show is a terrific success: She introduces jazz songs and German songs from the 30s, 40s, 50s and the 70s. And her audience loves it.
Show and new CD include songs by Kurt Weill and Friedrich Hollaender, which Marlene Dietrich already has interpreted and furthermore songs by Duke Ellington, Cole Porter and Antonio Carlos Jobim.
When the German-Cameroonian interpretes the "Pirate Jenny" from the Threepenny Opera, she slips completely in her role. Other German songs by Kurt Weill and Friedrich Hollaender Bisseh Akamé sings with the same dedication as songs from Cabaret, jazz, bossa nova and soul.
On September 26 2009 Bisseh Akamé successfully started her tour in Potsdam. Further concert are going to be presented in Hamburg, Erfurt and Berlin.
On Bissehs new CD "From Berlin to Broadway!" you can enjoy music at its best: A voice and a Steinway piano!
Check Bisseh Akamés new CD at AMAZON.DE
Whether as a guest singer or in her own evening program - Bisseh Akamé interpretes songs she has in her heart.
And the audience feels it - from the first note.
NEW CD! "BISSEH AKAMÉ: FROM BERLIN TO BROADWAY!"
AVAILABLE AT AMAZON.DE
COMING UP CONCERTS
November 5 2009 (21 Uhr) ERFURT - BÜHNE "CAFÉ NERLY", Marktstraße 6, Tickets: ticket@bissehakame.com
November 5 2009 (19 Uhr) ERFURT - BAUER & HIEBER MUSIKALIENZENTRUM
INSTORE-CONCERT, Anger 19/20
TV-SHOWS
Bisseh Akamé was interviewed and protrayed for several TV-Magazines - just click the links below (fast connection recommended):
Bisseh Akamé hosted by PotsdamTV-Editor-in-Chief Dr. Oliver Geldener (videostream)
Bisseh Akamé interviewed by TV Berlin-Host Sarah Maria Breuer (videostream)
TV-Feature with Bisseh Akamé (was! RBB)
TV-Portrait on Bisseh Akamé (NDR-Fernsehen, DAS!, German public TV, videostream)
TV-Performance from Bisseh Akamé live with Piano (TV-Station Hamburg 1, videostream)
PRESSCLIPPING
"Im Metropolenmix heimisch" (Syker Kreiszeitung)
Potsdamer Neueste SuperIllu
Nachrichten
Zeitschrift aktiv im Leben
Westallgäuer Zeitung
Her performances with the "Millennium Review," were great successes and for the program Kinder, heut' abend, da such' ich mir was aus..." she was celebrated: Bisseh Akamé.
In her new program Bisseh Akamé introduces jazz songs and German songs from the 30s, 40s, 50s and the 70s.
This includes songs by Kurt Weill and Friedrich Hollaender, which Marlene Dietrich already has interpreted and furthermore songs by Duke Ellington, Cole Porter and Antonio Carlos Jobim.
Whether as a guest singer or in her own evening program - Bisseh Akamé interpretes songs she has in her heart.
And the audience feels it - from the first note.
The singer with German-Cameroon roots already appeared in London's prestigious Mayfair Theater and also in Hamburg, Cologne, Nuremberg and Stuttgart.
Bissehs voice, this wonderful mezzo-soprano instrument, is not only an expression of great talent, but also the result of disciplined work.
Bissehs great love is dedicated to music: Whether jazz, gospel or soul - her sense of sensuality and joy sounds loud and clear. A melancholy interpretation might be followed by a piece full of overflowing happiness.
Here are some favourite songs from Bisseh Akamés repertoire:
Chain of Fools (Don Covay)
Cabaret (Kander/Ebb)
Day Dream (Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn)
Love for Sale (Words&Music: Cole Porter)
Satin Doll (Duke Ellington, Johnny Mercer & Billy Strayhorn)
Keepin’ Out of Mischief Now (Fats Waller)
Little Girl Blue (Words: Lorence Hart, Music: Richard Rogers)
Der Tod und das Mädchen (M. Claudius, Schubert)
Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man) (Words and Music: Stephen Sondheim)
The Boy From Ipanema (Antonio Carlos Jobim, Norman Gimbel, Vinicius de Moraes)
Fever (John Davenport, Eddie Cooley)
Mademoiselle Chante le Blues (Paroles: Didier Barbelivien & Bob Mehdi, Musique: Didier Barbelivien)
Street Life (Music: Joe Sample)
My Romance (Lorence Hart, Music: Richard Rogers)
Kleptomanin (Friedrich Hollaender)
Benjamin, ich hab’ nichts anzuzieh’n
Ich weiß nicht, zu wem ich gehöre
My ship (Kurt Weill)
Seeräuber-Jenny (Brecht/Weill)
Picture Gallery
Bisseh Akamé was interviewed and protrayed for several TV-Magazines - just click the links below (fast connection recommended):
TV-Portrait über Bisseh Akamé (NDR-Fernsehen, DAS!)
TV-Auftritt von Bisseh Akamé live mit Pianobegleitung (TV-Sender HH1)
You need pictures in high resolution? Just send us an e-mail and we will help you out:
presse@bissehakame.com
Foto: Ben Wolf
Foto: Ben Wolf
Foto: Ben Wolf
Press
"Bisseh Akamé with her exquisite voice will have success in Germany " (German public television NDR, "DAS!")
"Bisseh Akamé wowed with German songs" (German newspaper DIE WELT)
"... Hamburg's hottest soul voice" (German newspaper BILD)
"Rising star on the heaven of jazz" (German Alster Magazine)
Would you like to add something? For interview requests and other questions just contact us!
via Email: presse@bissehakame.com
telephone: +49 - (0)30/80 577 366
fax: +49 - (0)30/80 577 366
Pressclips (please click on the pictures to enlarge them, German only)
Berliner Woche Berliner Abendblatt
WIR IN SCHEIDEGG
Berliner Woche Westallgäuer Zeitung
WELT Hamburger Abendblatt
Hamburger Abendblatt Hamburger Abendblatt
BILD BILD Alstermagazin
Terre des Femmes Magazin Hamburger Wochenblatt
Hamburger Morgenpost
