Barbara Akabla

Barbara Akabla has been active in music since the 80s. Very early on, she recorded a first album, "Séhizou", produced by Paul Nemlin, who signed a few albums in his name, and who later participated in the group Pan-African a-capella NIPA (1996). Barbara was still in high school when Paul Nemlin offered to make an album with him. In the years that followed, Barbara continued to perfect her singing skills in Abidjan and began to sing in bars and cabarets in Abidjan. Towards the end of the 90s, she moved to Paris where she continued to sing in bars. . Apart from that, she appeared in the first part at the Zénith with Papa Wemba and with Koffi Olomide in 1999. She recorded her second album "Tu think que ça", released in 1999. The album was well received by the artists. music lovers but commercial success was penalized by a lack of promotion. In 2006, Barbara Akabla made her comeback in stores with an album which bears the funny title "Boom Boom Bam". The album was produced by Frenchman François Cousin. The style displayed in this album is called Afro World, which is actually a mix of RnB and zouk with local Ivorian rhythms.