{"id":19566,"date":"2025-12-05T20:24:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T19:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/?p=19566"},"modified":"2026-04-08T01:42:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T00:42:20","slug":"wes-alane-1997","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/?p=19566","title":{"rendered":"Wes &#8211; Alane, 1997"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" colspan=\"2\" width=\"100%\">\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-19566-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/39s-a.musify.club\/get\/71\/6201499\/27868863\/1\/0\/0\/wes-alane.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/39s-a.musify.club\/get\/71\/6201499\/27868863\/1\/0\/0\/wes-alane.mp3\">https:\/\/39s-a.musify.club\/get\/71\/6201499\/27868863\/1\/0\/0\/wes-alane.mp3<\/a><\/audio><span style=\"color: #999999\"><em>Wes &#8211; &#8220;Alane&#8221;, 1997<\/em><\/span>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"50%\">\n<span class=\"logios-inline-term\"><strong>Alane<\/strong><\/span> <span class=\"logios-inline-definition\"><p>\"Alane\" is a song by Cameroonian musician Wes, released in May 1997 via various labels as the debut single from his first album, Welenga. Sung in the Duala language of Cameroon though the Tony Moran remix includes English lyrics (\"<em>Alane flows like a fountain, running gently to your heart. Alane dances inside me, like a flame in to your arms<\/em>\").<br \/>\nThe accompanying music video for \"Alane\" was directed by Philippe Gautier. The choreography was created by American-French singer Mia Frye, who had previously created the choreography for Los del Rio's \"Macarena\". Frye appears in both videos.<\/p>\n<\/span>[ <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alane_(song)\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">w<\/span><\/a><\/em> ]<\/p>\n<p><em>(other versions)<\/em><br \/>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-19566-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/40s.musify.club\/get\/69\/4955758\/13547176\/1\/0\/0\/wes-alane-radio-mix.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/40s.musify.club\/get\/69\/4955758\/13547176\/1\/0\/0\/wes-alane-radio-mix.mp3\">https:\/\/40s.musify.club\/get\/69\/4955758\/13547176\/1\/0\/0\/wes-alane-radio-mix.mp3<\/a><\/audio>Wes &#8211; <strong>Alane<\/strong> <em>(Radio Mix)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"50%\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/int_a_skyd_wes_madiko_ph1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/int_a_skyd_wes_madiko_ph1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"694\" height=\"602\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/int_a_skyd_wes_madiko_ph1.jpg 694w, https:\/\/letrat.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/int_a_skyd_wes_madiko_ph1-300x260.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 694px) 100vw, 694px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"logios-inline-term\"><strong>Wes Madiko<\/strong><\/span> <span class=\"logios-inline-definition\"><p>Wes Madiko (1964-2021), better known mononymously as <strong>Wes<\/strong>, was a Cameroonian musician. He is probably best known among Western audiences for his cover of \"Upendi\", from The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, as well as work with Deep Forest and his own 1997 hit \"Alane\" produced by Michel Sanchez.<\/p>\n<\/span>[ <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wes_(singer)\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">w<\/span><\/a><\/em> ]<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wes &#8211; &#8220;Alane&#8221;, 1997 [ w ] (other versions) Wes &#8211; Alane (Radio Mix) [ w ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}