Myra Maimoh

Myra Maimoh
Myra Maimoh
Background information
Born	Cameroon
Genres	Soul/Afro soul.
Occupations	Singer
Labels	Hitsmith
Website	myramaimoh.com myspace.com/myramaimoh

Myra Maimoh (born December 6, 1982 in Cameroon), is a soulsinger for Hitsmith. She has been living in Germany for five years after she moved there from Cameroon for studies.

Biography

Camroonian-born Myra Maimoh grew up in a big, Christian family in Bamenda with her mother being her greatest musical influence by shopping records. Influenced by her mothers discs of 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.

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.

Discography

Answer´d me(2010)

• 1. You and Me
• 2. Hallow
• 3. Killing Me
• 4. Cuando
• 5. I'Ncourage You
• 6. Whatever I Promise
• 7. I Need Him
• 8. Please Take It Slow
• 9. The Lies
• 10. Turtle Back Rock
• 11. Answer Me

References

• Biography Myra Maimoh
• Myra profile tiptopstars magazine
• Museke african artist page
• Music review:Muzik and Sich
• Myra single 'killing me'
• Myra German TV interview Yomeco

External links

• Official Page of Myra Maimoh
• Myra Maimoh on MySpace
• Myra Maimoh on Twitter
• Myra Maimoh on Facebook
• Myra Maimoh at Reverbnation

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Name	Maimoh, Myra
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Date of birth	December 6, 1982
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