Description: R&B, Soul and Pop - Answer`d
Me is a new CD project by the black vocalist
Myra Maimoh
Biography: Biography: Myra Maimoh
“She sang in the morning to start her
day, will get into the studio and sing all
day to be recorded. While she did breaks
she sang to relax from the singing and will
sing on her way back to the studio to prepare
herself to sing again to be recorded.”
BIOGRAPHY Myra Maimoh, a smart and dynamic native of
Cameroon, based in Germany seems to have
a magnetic, almost magical pull to music
not common for newcomers. Her genuine love
for music together with genuine love for
people, a trait which seems to be disappearing
at these modern times are not only heard
but felt in her music. It gets you dancing
but also embraces you lovingly and whispers
love to your soul in times of quiet. When
asked how she describes her music, she said
“my music is for dancing feet but also
and especially for people with dreams, hopes,
fears and worries”. “Answer`d
Me” - her debut album is a truly multifarious
11 track piece covering a wide spectrum of
modern R&B/Soul/Pop with some Afro influence.
The difficulty in finding a known name as
a tag or label for her combined with a truly
authentic and grounded persona, such convincing,
deep, but still yet a new-to-the-scene craft
style is the best evidence of true and unique
talent.
Even at the tender age of 6 years, Myra Maimoh
would create her own “orchestra”
with kids in her neighborhood getting them
play mostly percussive instruments (read
empty food cans and sticks) with her of course
as the main vocalist in the middle. This
happened quite often, the reasons for it
being her convincing musicality already manifesting
at that age. Her singing would bring neighbors
out of their houses over and over, and not
to scold but to listen and enjoy. She was
a kind of moving, singing machine which her
brothers could not always stop. After singing
all the songs she had in her head, she would
improvise and sing. The improvised songs
were of course unknown to her brothers, so,
they did not find it funny at all and therefore
came up with a term, “forming”
as a way of teasing her. “Forming “actually
meant “formed songs” or “created
melodies” and of course created melodies
were not to be sung since they were not known
to any human apart from Myra. Each time she
got in to the “improvise mood”,
they would scream, “forming, forming”,
urging her to stop singing since that could
easily go on all day long.
If there are people who have experienced
life in almost all its colors and especially
not the best colors, Myra Maimoh certainly
belongs to them. She is extremely adventurous,
philosophic (a bigger mind), spiritual, deep,
loving and sensitive . Traits well reflected
by her music. Before getting into this fresh,
great, inspiring and very promising working
relationship with Hitsmith Producer, Mbachi
Halle (writer, Producer and Engineer of “Answer`d
Me”, also of same origin Bamenda, Cameroon);
they had long talks about working together
with her always enthusiastically expressing
her deepest wish - to create albums of extravagant
and genuine musicality while completely leaving
out the pressure of doing what others do.
That request was answered – “Answer´d
Me”
Myra Maimoh grew up in a big, Christian family
in Bamenda with her mother being her greatest
musical influence not by singing and dancing
as we all might assume, no – that lady
shopped records!! She shopped anything that
sounded great like Skeeter Davies, James
Brown, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong,
African blues and throughout the spectrum
from country music, traditional African music
to jazz and pop. Myra started singing and
dancing while still in preschool at the age
of 3, being what she would easily do all
day. She wrote her first set of songs and
stories at the age of 13, examples being
“It´s not too late”, “Life
is short”, “Aberni ma Papa”
and “Our Lord is always there”.
“It´s not too late” later
became a hit song interpreted by the Cherubic
Queens, a very successful Cameroonian girl
band in which she sang. She joined the Cherubic
Queens at age 15, wrote and performed with
them 3 years long. Myra has had an extremely
intensive and extensive musical career ranging
from singing and dancing with group - Crystalz,
which won many inter-college awards for best
performances. She was crowned Miss Coca Cola
1998 and 2001, a Coca Cola sponsored competition
of arts. Every competition she took part
in was almost always sure to end with her
winning awards for best song, poem or performance.
From 2001 till 2005, Myra Maimoh was not
only a high profile studio vocalist recording
in some of the country´s greatest studios
for the greatest artists, she was among the
most hired doing everything from background
vocals, lead vocals to jingles for national
and private radio stations.
For the past 5 years, she’s been living
in Germany and has completed her International
Business Administration degree program. Throughout
this period, her musical activities consisted
of live group performances, lead singing
in choirs, solo performances and studio vocalist
till the beginning of 2010 as she joined
the Hitsmith family. The vocal recordings
were completed May ending after an intensive
working period with sessions often as long
as 12 hours leaving her creep out of the
studio at the end…. Well, still singing
though! She lived at the Hitsmith Studios
and the team described the time with her
as feeling like Christmas even though it
was such hard work. Mbachi Halle (Producer/
Writer & Engineer of “Answer´d
Me”) was often heard saying “
If every other artist I work with would be
like Myra Maimoh, I must have the best job
in the world.”
Press Release: An uncommon combination gets evident here
- deep sincere love for people, music &
riches in experience. Myra Maimoh is a Cameroonian
born-raised new to the scene solo artist
based in Braunschweig & Fulda - Germany.
She debuts with "Answer'd me",
a colorful 11 track R&B/Pop/World record
with enough influence from her Cameroonian
background to stand out, but crafted with
the international scene on mind. The brave
Myra Maimoh dares to take an ever disappearing
approach to contemporary pop culture by dwelling
on life beyond romantic love. Unbreakable
marriages, fighting fear and encouragement
are some of the things she sings about. It
is music designed to get dancing feet on
the floor but also to be some kind of new
audio friend to people with dreams, fears
and worries in times of quiet. 11.11.10 is
the official release date with song "KILLING
ME" (free download from myramaimoh.com)
as first single. The promo tour starts in
the UK and moves over to Germany, then slowly
throughout Europe & USA.
