Melchi Vepouyoum Bonn, Germany
Melchi Vepouyoum is a musician from Cameroon who has lived in Bonn for several years.
As a teenager, he
worked in his brother-in-law's butcher shop in Yaoundé.
In the sales room there is always radio music playing in the background. When he spontaneously begins to sing along, he immediately makes the decision
to dedicate all his energies from now on to learning and creating music.
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