Sandra Nkake

Sandra Nkake

Born: November 15, 1973
in Yaoundé, Cameroon
Sandra Nkaké (born 15 November 1973) is a French-Cameroonian actress and singer.

Nkaké was born in Yaoundé, Cameroon in 1973. At the age of 12, she moved to France. Nkaké was passionate about music from an early age, particularly Prince whom she discovered as a teenager. However, she desired to become an English teacher and studied in Paris at the Sorbonne. When she was 20, she turned her attention towards the theater, auditioning for a role and becoming an actress. Nkaké made her debut in The Crucible in 1994, directed by Thomas Ledouarec. The following year, she had a role in Le Dindon.

Nkaké made her film debut in Les Deux Papas et la Maman in 1996, directed by Jean-Marc Longval. Several films and TV films followed, but Nkaké remained focused on her music career as well. In 1996, she participated in the Ollano trip-hop project alongside Hélène Noguerra. During the 2000s, Nkaké collaborated in the studio and on stage with several artists, such as Jacques Higelin, Daniel Yvinec and the National Jazz Orchestra, Julien Lourau, and Rodolphe Burger. She worked with Gerald Toto and David Walters for the Urban Kreol project.

In 2008, Nkaké released her debut album Mansaadi, supporting the record with over 200 concerts around the world, including tours in Africa and Brazil. She recorded a tribute to Donny Hathaway on Stéphane Belmondo's 2011 album Ever After. In 2012 her second album Nothing for Granted came out, which was co-written with her associate Ji Drû. This album was released on Jazz Village record label. Nkaké's expressive voice made her a staple on the French soul scene. She received the Frank Ténot prize at the Victoires du Jazz ceremony in July 2012. In September 2017, she released her third album Tangerine Moon Wishes, which she considered her most personal record.

Since 2007, she has lived in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis.

Source: Article "Sandra Nkaké" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Forever Young
Title: Forever Young
Character: Professeure New York
Released: November 16, 2022
Type: Movie
At the end of the 1980s, Stella, Victor, Adèle and Etienne are 20 years old. They take the entrance exam to the famous acting school created by Patrice Chéreau and Pierre Romans at the Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre. Launched at full speed into life, passion, and love, together they will experience the turning point of their lives, but also their first tragedy.
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Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood
Title: Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
Released: March 16, 2022
Type: Movie
In 1971, director Melvin Van Peebles turned the figure of the black hero in US cinema upside down with Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song: the story of the making of a seminal movie that initiated the Blaxploitation movement, a short-lived but highly influential sub-genre in the years that followed.
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Le festival des festivals
Title: Le festival des festivals
Character: Self
Released: August 27, 2020
Type: Movie
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Title: Rembob'Ina
Character: Self (auteure, compositrice et interprète)
Released: November 4, 2018
Type: TV
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Photo de famille
Title: Photo de famille
Character: Dominique
Released: September 5, 2018
Type: Movie
Gabrielle is a "statue" for tourists, much to the chagrin of her teenage son. Elsa is in angry at the world and desperate to become pregnant. Mao is a chronically depressed video game designer who drowns his melancholy in alcohol and psychoanalysis. They are brother and sisters but do not hang out. Ever. Their parents Pierre and Claudine, separated for a long time, have really done nothing to strengthen the bonds of the family - yet, at their grandfather's funeral, they are going to have to meet, and together answer the question: "What to do with grandma?"
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A Season in France
Title: A Season in France
Character: Madeleine
Released: January 25, 2018
Type: Movie
An African high school teacher flees his war-torn country for France, where he falls in love with a Frenchwoman who offers a roof for him and his family.
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Title: Mes chers disparus
Character: Brigitte Elbert
Released: December 23, 2015
Type: TV
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Not My Type
Title: Not My Type
Character: Cathy
Released: April 30, 2014
Type: Movie
Clement, a young philosophy teacher, is sent to Arras for a year. He meets Jennifer, a pretty hair stylist, and the two freely share their hearts and bodies as they try to overcome the cultural and social divide between them.
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La fin de la nuit
Title: La fin de la nuit
Character: Nanda
Released: January 1, 2014
Type: Movie
Twenty years have passed. Thérèse lives alone in Paris. We exiled her there. She seems to be asking nothing more for life. She is sick and lives in slow motion. One day, we ring rue du Bac. It is Mary, her daughter, whom she sees so little. She is twenty years old now and comes to see her to escape her middle-class south-west. She is very in love with a boy, she expects from her mother a support, a freedom of point of view. His name is Murad. The arrival of her daughter awakens Therese with her reserve and torpor. It does not shock Mary, who is very busy with her love. Thérèse proposes to meet Mourad. She quickly understands that he is not willing to marry Mary but wants her without wanting to bond more deeply to her. It is she Therese, that the young man looks ... She wanted to help her daughter to be happy, a wish too official not to be suspicious. Here she is delivered to the power of her own seduction ...
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King Guillaume
Title: King Guillaume
Character: La chanteuse de gospel
Released: January 28, 2009
Type: Movie
Magali plays in a brass band. Guillaume drives a small tourist train. Both spin a perfect love, they share modest dreams and their baby is about to come. But an unexpected news upsets their routine: a man appears and announces that he is Guillaume's estranged father and also reveals that Guillaume is his legitimate heir of a kingdom offshore of France and England. Guillaume and Magali start to dream of a life as monarchs, surrounded by faithful subjects in their castle, enjoying their wealth. But reality is often different to what you can imagine.
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Dans l'ombre
Title: Dans l'ombre
Character: Le travesti
Released: November 9, 2004
Type: Movie
a short film by Giovanni Quéné.
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Bed and Breakfast
Title: Bed and Breakfast
Character: Patrick
Released: September 3, 2003
Type: Movie
Tired of their stressful parisian lifestyle, Caroline and Bertrand decide to start a new life, running a traditional gîte in deepest Provence. It is not long before they start to question the wisdom of this move – the buldings are in a state of near-dilapidation, their friend and supposed partner Sophie has walked out on them, and they are but a stone’s throw from a far more attarctive holiday home, catering for gay men. Will this change be as good as a rest or the start of a nightmare?
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The Girl
Title: The Girl
Character: Bu Savè
Released: September 9, 2000
Type: Movie
A torrid affair between two women, a struggling artist and a flame-haired blues singer, upsets a man who has a thing for the girl.