Biography of Yaniss Odua
YaniSs Odua has just celebrated his twenty years of career and he offers us with his new album "Moment Ideal" a real gem musical.
Twelve titles of pure reggae embellished with sometimes Latin vibes, sometimes urban, always universal, which poses the Martinican singer as one of the voices of the year with which it will be necessary to count.
Few artists possess like him in their repertoire a hymn reggae unavoidable such as the anthological piece "The Caribbean". With "Red, Yellow, Green", his new single, he adds a second that is likely to wreak havoc in live.
Multi-card artist having started on stage at the age of 12, he has, since 2002 and the release of his album "Yon pa Yon" (Sekel / SonyMusic) unanimously hailed by critics, participated in the adventure of the label Legalize Hits, on which he will release the "High Tunes" project, nominated for the Afro-Caribbean Arts Trophies, and "Hit 2 Hits" which won the 2008 Best Reggae Victories Album of the Year Award.
A true show man, he has already given more than 800 concerts and has been tirelessly working since the beginning of his career, seducing the French-speaking reggae audience, but also a wider audience, as evidenced by the duets he regularly posed with artists of the middle class. Tiken Jah Fakoly, Ky-Mani Marley or Don Choa from the Fonky Family.
His Moment Ideal Tour is a real success and after more than sixty dates in 2013, he continues this year with the biggest festivals and a big tour on the end of the year with his group Artikal Band and his friends of Danakil. He will perform on stage his now classic songs such as "La Caraibe", "A Tear", "Mal Au Coeur" and pieces of his new album made alongside the legendary Clive Hunt (Jimmy Cliff, Alpha Blondy, Rolling Stones, Grace Jones, Khaled ...).
No doubt, YaniSs Odua is the French artist to follow.
A convincing voice, a well-honed reggae. Twenty years YANISS ODUA concocts us tubes that make us think and dance. After songs that have become mythical like "The Caribbean", "Red Yellow Green" (more than 18 million views on Youtube), or "Chalawa", YANISS ODUA releases a new album, a NEW DATA (May 2017) that it proposes and defends with talent and convictions. There are songs like "Refugee" sincerely committed, "New Donne" positive and optimistic, or the excellent "Listen We" alongside Keny Arkana. A brilliant album signed by an artist who knows how to get the balance between big sound, good attitude and conscious lyrics.
On stage Yaniss gives more than his person: it is energy, good mood, warmth and love that he offers to the four corners of Europe. These are always warm concerts, a reggae well oiled and loaded in good vibes that is delivered by an Artikal Band always at the top. The singers who accompany all this beautiful world bring the sweet and the sensual, the final touch that definitely marks this show among the most furious of the current French reggae scene.
The release of NOUVELLE DONNE drove YANISS ODUA on the roads throughout 2017, starting with a visit to the Elysée Montmartre, picked up and broadcast on France Ô.
Since then, the artist has inflamed the great scenes of summer festivals including that of Reggae Sun Ska where he was particularly expected and well accompanied by explosive Keny Arkana, or those of Summerjam, Couleur Café, No Logo Festival ...