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Firmin Boubié Bazié, better known by his stage name Agozo, is a singer from Burkina Faso.

Life and career

Bazié was born in the village of Réo, in Sanguié Province, Burkina Faso. He is an ethnic Gurunsi.[1]

According to Bazié, his grandmother gave him the name Agozo from a Gurunsi (Lyélé)[2] word, "gbôzor", meaning "tô couché". Tô is a millet or sorghum porridge and a Burkinabé dish. When Bazié was a child he didn't like heated tô, only flat tô. His college friends felt that it didn't sound good, so they added an "A" and removed the "B" to give Agozo.[1]

In August 2016, a music event and contest regarding the size of women's bodies, which Agozo featured in and promoted, was picked up by major news networks such as France24, The Guardian and Reuters due to controversy surrounding it. The event was banned by the Burkina Faso Ministry of Women, National Solidarity and Family.[3][4][5][6]

Discography

(2015) "La Go": drawing on Gurunsi binon musical tradition and coupé-décalé from Côte d'Ivoire.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b "Boubié Bazié dit Agozo, artiste musicien burkinabè : Ce sont les étudiants (...) - leFaso.net, l'actualité au Burkina Faso". lefaso.net (in French). Retrieved 2017-02-27.
  2. ^ https://www.facebook.com/fredman.one (2017-01-14). "AGOZO : " Je préfère investir dans les maquis que faire un studio d'enregistrement " | Tackborse.TV - 100% Culture - Film, Clips, Musique, MP3 du Burkina Faso". Bienvenue sur Tackborse.tv | 100% Culture - Film, Clips, Musique, MP3 du Burkina Faso (in French). Retrieved 2017-02-27. {{cite news}}: |last= has generic name (help); External link in |last= (help)
  3. ^ "Miss Bim Bim au Burkina : cachez ces fesses que je ne saurais voir - JeuneAfrique.com". JeuneAfrique.com (in French). 2016-08-31. Retrieved 2017-02-27.
  4. ^ "Au Burkina Faso, un concours des "plus grosses fesses" qui fâche". Les Observateurs de France 24 (in French). Retrieved 2017-02-27.
  5. ^ Reuters (2016-08-27). "Miss Bim Bim: outrage in Burkina Faso brings big bottom contest to an end". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-02-27. {{cite news}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  6. ^ "Burkina Faso bans big buttocks beauty contest". Reuters. 2017-08-27. Retrieved 2017-02-27.
  7. ^ "" La Go ", un nouvel album du musicien burkinabè Agozo sur le marché" (in French). Retrieved 2017-02-27.


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