AMBÉ UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL (KAMER ENTERTAINMENT INSIGHTS)

It took me a while to conduct this interview but Im glad I finally had the chance to do so. It is very hard for artist and public figures to explain themselves to the public without getting judgmental looks or comments. Ambe formerly Denzyl took the risk of coming out clean and explaining his side of the story which was very brave of him. We equally spoke about his name change and his music career. Read all about the AMBE interview, how he changed his choices and where he is coming from... Feel free to drop your comments in the blow below

Aboki:

First up thank you for granting this interview..

Ambe: 

Sure bro, no problem I’m honored

Aboki:

You have attained a reasonable amount of fame but it is only fair that some people don’t know you. Do you mind telling our readers who you are?

Ambe:

My name is Ambe, from the name u already know I represent that Bafut, Mezam, Cameroon, aka ZionKnight aka RendezVousPikin with huge ambition to impact peoples life with music and become successful too.

Aboki:

You have been in the game for approximately 12 years and most people have given up, what makes u to keep going despite the obstacles?

Ambe:

Well to sing is a talent, God gave me and I will not stop.  NEVER! So despite the obstacles, I know a day will come so I just keep grinding bro... E no easy but bro ma head dey dey

Aboki:

Why the name Change?

Ambe:

I'm rebranding as u may have noticed and I decided to go with my family name and I rep my family in this too

Aboki: 

It took years to brand the name Denzyl and it has a reasonable following, don’t you think doing this looses a lot of your fans?

Ambe: 

Well u have to understand change is the only thing which is constant, it took me a lot of courage to make that decision, Denzyl did a lot of things made a lot of mistakes and from those mistakes I learned so I decided to rebirth myself and name the new me Ambe, I know I lost fans but life is all about losing something and gaining something

Aboki:

So u wouldn’t switch back to get those fans would you?

Ambe:

From now on, I only see what is ahead no looking back so switching back is far from happening.. I believe most of the fans who knew me as Denzyl will soon know that Ambe is just the rebirth of       Denzyl and they will relate.. so bro i no get worries na small small

Aboki: 

Talking about mistakes Denzyl made, recently a web link surfaced with your name and other in the industry linking you to "scamming activities", how valid is this list?

Ambe:

I have heard about the link bro but never got around to go check it out myself to be honest. But...to answer your question, I do not know how valid that list is. Since I have not checked it to see what names were there..

Aboki: 

ok let me rephrase my question.. were u at any point involved in such activities (scamming)

Ambe: 

Well Aboki, u really are taking me down memory lane something I have always tried to forget .. Unfortunately (and this is very difficult for me to talk about), i have been. It was a long time ago. Growing up as a kid in Rendez-Vous....It's all in the song. Growing up being a struggling kid with only a mum struggling for 5 of us to send us to school and make sure we put on cloths and also put food on our table, I had no choice and almost everybody I knew at that time was doing it. It was such a pride to be doing it that time it was like a pop culture bro. That was like 2006 and If u be dey Bamenda or Buea that time u go understand what i'm saying. so that is my story bro and it’s what makes who I am but it’s also  all left in the past.. It’s all gone bro..

Aboki: 

Why did you decide to stop and change and did that have anything to do with the name change and the song Rendezvous?

Ambe:

Bro massa I stopped longtime ago after i realized it was wrong. So it has nothing to do with my change of names, like i said ...I made a lot of mistake when I was Denzyl So yeah mehn its all left in my past.... and like I said, I did it as a kid growing up in a 'tough' neighborhood, a kid who had to put food on the table for family and mum. It’s all in the past bro

Aboki:

Question from Ebangha Njang.... “I have done a little research and I found out that you tried to revive your career in Nigeria and it didn’t work... what went wrong?”

Ambe:

Ebangha Njang!!! Nigeria was an adventure for me and a part of my music school of reality... It was all a learning process for me and going to Nigeria has played a huge role of the man i am today..

Aboki:

The video for Rendez-Vous dropped and I loved most of it I however feel that a lot of the things spoken in the song, weren’t shown in the video... Like the Rendezvous concept and even dancing, given the rhythm.. and you would bear with me that quite a couple of people had the same thing to say in as much as they enjoyed the video. What do u have to say about that?

Ambe: 

Well basically, the video director wanted to portray mostly what I was saying in other to sell the lyrics of the song.. and that is what we did, we thought about the RendezVous neighborhood, and the too much dancing but we didn't want to go all cliché, almost everybody is doing that now so we wanted to present to Cameroonians and Africa something different and according to me that mission was accomplished. 

Aboki:

Pardon me if I do not agree with you on that last point. Just my opinion tho.. How has it been since dropping Rendezvous? How have your fans received it ? Do they like this direction?

Ambe:

Hahaha na u again!!! But yeah people got their opinions and everyone’s opinion is to be respected. So far so good mehnn.. the feedback has been amazing so far both online and mainstream and to be honest we "TeamAmbe" we just getting started because the revolution shall be televised..

Aboki: 

What message is AMBE the brand bringing along that Denzyl couldn’t bring along. what’s new? Why should people look forward to hearing from You?

Ambe Tebong:

As for Denzyl he's dead to me, and Well AMBE will only do music that serves a purpose and impacts people’s lives positively and will not release nothing but hit songs ... can u say Insha Allah!!! With me please!!

 

Aboki:

Insha Allah Azizi!

Ambe: Thank u

Aboki: 

You belong to a group of artist who are virtually gone with regards to time they started doing music... Who do you look up to in the 237 ecosystem and why?

Ambe:

I started at the age of 16, so I know I still have time on my side I’m still young and have a long!!! Way to go, and as for who I look up to, well I look up to everybody putting in efforts to make sure the ecosystem develops and feeds everybody, I look up to u, all bloggers, all record labels, radios, tvs, radio host, event organizers, philanthropies, fans in fact everybody man.. That’s what an industry is made of and as of now we are still growing so i look up to everyone.

Aboki:

Any words for up and coming artist and everyone else in the growing ecosystem?

Ambe: 

All I can say is they should know that nobody bad pass... no one is better than... Na God di make ultimate decision so make them just keep working harder, be patient, stay genuinely humble, put God first and success go come knocking their doors. We have a lot of talent in this country man and like I di tell myself this days, time tells every story.

Aboki: 

Thank you so much for taking time out of your busy schedule to talk to me. I would certainly reach out for follow up questions. I wish you all the best in your music and business endeavors

Ambe:

Na small pa..God bless #Emmanuel #GodwithUs

Before you get all judge mental going on Social media pasting and criticising him for doing what he did, think.... Infact take your bibles and open to the page "somewhere in the new testament" where ou good lord said before you cast the stone take a look at yourself. (or something like that) Anyway, you get the message, because everyone has skeletons in his or her closets. At least he is brave enough to face them and talk about it. There are many others who would have flat out denied it (no be say I be morals teacher ohh) All the same, we wish Ambé the best in his career.

Below is the video of his latest single #Rendezvous Please watch and share...

Salam Ma Lekum!

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