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Triple threat singer, songwriter and choreographer, Claude Adolphe Alexandre Moundi, popularly known as 'Petit Pays', is internationally renowned for his talents and is one of the most awarded artists in the history of Cameroonian music. Born in Douala, 1967, he sings in French, Douala and pidgin on zouk and makossa. He was nicknamed “the lawyer defender of women, " ” Rabba Rabbi “or” The King of Makossa love". He has more than four gold records and had several successes in Africa, especially in Cameroon, where he his concerts were always a sells out. Petit Pays began his professional career in the late 1980s, when he teamed up with producer Eyabé Kwedi. He wrote hundreds of songs, some of which have become popular in Cameroon and in West Africa. He released several albums with his band called ‘’Les Sans Visas’’ (without visas). Made up of Samy Dicko , Xavier and Lagaf Njohreur he considered it an academy of young talent. He has been a Cameroonian icon since the 1990’s and currently holds the record for most sales in Cameroon for his album ‘’Class F’’, which sold fifty thousand copies on its release day, never before seen in Cameroon. Petit Pays remains one of the major figures of Cameroonian music and even African music of the last thirty years, despite numerous controversies. In 1992, his song ‘’E si Mala " (Ca ne va pas), which speaks of the suffering in Africa, made him known throughout sub-Saharan Africa and even the Caribbean.