James Bks

James BKS is a unique artistic figure, no need to prove it. His music, like his person - two inseparable entities as they reflect each other - are the fruit of an exceptional initiatory journey, including both the acceptance of long ignored
Cameroonian roots and the discovery of an innate talent for music production. Unique and singular, James BKS’s project reflects his passage from the shadows, as a producer, to light, as a fully grown artist.
Being a major component of his artistic and  personal life, music production has followed  each of his steps in the music industry. He started as a producer and developed his  artistic signature through collaborations with renowned international urban figures, but as  an artist today, he relies on independence with his own production company, Grown  Kid, a creative house that welcomes another  facet of his creativity : composing original scores for advertising and feature films; this creative house has developed a label side over time, label that produces and releases his compositions. 
And his compositions never go unnoticed.  Carrying both a message and a movement  that is larger than life, James BKS’s music gathers people from all over the globe around causes that connect people of African descent as well as all those who wish to reconnect with their heritage. Proud ambassador of the latter, James embodies it for all the reasons that have made him the artist he is today, reasons crowned and amplified by the unexpected reunion with his biological father, Manu Dibango. And it is this reunion, this essential event of his personal development that makes James compose his music as he lives his identity, between hip-hop sounds, African percussions and pop melodies. This way, his music that sounds like the meeting point between all the cultures that have nourished it, between traditional African rhythms and choirs and avant-garde urban sounds.This is how his initiatory journey and his music are universal. They invite each of us to break free from preconceived codes by combining tradition and modernity, heritages and crossbreeding.