Urban music: Zoe Queen, a bright future for Congo

Zoe Queen is a romantic female voice on Afro-urban sounds and lyrical texts forming her musical universe. With only one single available on all legal download platforms and on YouTube, since 2024, she is already shaping up to be a hope for Congolese female music. She embodies the courage, determination and elegance that make up her slogan “Moungwa”, which means “salt” in French, an essential ingredient for the sauce.

The artist demonstrated his strength on stage last year through his performances both in Brazzaville and elsewhere. Its production on the main stage of the French Institute of Congo in Brazzaville, on June 21, 2024, during the international music festival in front of more than fifteen hundred people, is a perfect illustration. Because she had set fire, enthusing the public. His visit to the Félix-Eboué stadium, opening act for rapper Makhalba Malecheick’s concert on August 24, was marked by his courage and his stage presence in front of more than twenty-thousand people. Without forgetting his sublime performance, still in 2024, in Bacongo, the second district of Brazzaville, in front of nearly a thousand people, opening for the artist Emilio Lacas.

Very young and promising, Zoe Queen has already found her place among the heavyweights of Congolese female urban music like Louz Baby, Jessy B, Nestelia Forest, … So, the year 2025 promises to be very fruitful for her. It is common this new year precisely in this first month, she will make available to the general public and in particular music lovers of urban music the video version of her single “Lost Love”. This same year, she also plans to release an EP on the record market that she promises will be a real musical bomb.

A real stage beast

Her real identity is Victoria Jurancia Inkari, Zoe Queen was born to a Christian family. It was at a very young age in church when she accompanied her grandmother to masses that she discovered her passion for music. Already, at the age of 8, she joined the “Ecodim” Sunday school. It was a little later that she decided to convert to Islam and put a break on her musical vision. “ Chasing the natural, it always comes back at a gallop” because, in 2019, she made her return to the musical world with a cover of the title “Does boza” by singer Gally Garvey from the Democratic Republic of Congo. She recorded her first title “Lost love” in 2020 which will not be released until later in 2024. Despite this, she continues repeatedly with charming singers.

The extremely famous Zoe Queen, far from being just a simple studio artist, is rather and above all a real stage beast. For the first time, she met the public at the Congolese National Television esplanade where she delivered a performance on the Bralico podium. Since then, she has offered several showcases with this company through its “Talent show” program.

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