Tayc
“Tayc made the diaspora R&B ballad sound like Douala in summer — proof that "afrolov'" is not a marketing word but an actual emotional address.”
- Base
- Diaspora
- Active
- 2017 — present
- Sound lane
- R&B
- Languages
- french / english / camfranglais
Cultural Snapshot
A fast read of the artist's place in the archive before you enter the songs.
Tayc made the diaspora R&B ballad sound like Douala in summer — proof that "afrolov'" is not a marketing word but an actual emotional address.
Diaspora
Marseille, France
french / english / camfranglais
6 cultural annotations across the catalog
Dorothée
20 reads
Popular Lyrics
8 most-read lyric pages · 108 total reads.
Discography
4 albums
Credits & Network
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Network under restoration
Roles, collaborators, credits, and music-actor data will appear here.
Timeline
Biography as a sequence of origin, catalog, and museum milestones.
Julien Bouadjie Kamgang — known as Tayc — was born in 1996 in Marseille to Cameroonian parents. He studied theatre and dance before relocating to Paris in the early 2010s to focus on music. His self-coined "Afrolov'" — a hybrid of contemporary R&B, soul, French urban pop, zouk and Afrobeat — first surfaced on the 2017 mixtape Alchemy and crystallised on the triple-disc debut Nyxia (2019). The follow-up Fleur froide (December 2020) became one of the defining francophone albums of the decade: "N'y pense plus," "Le Temps" and "Hé Oh" pushed the project to diamond certification with hundreds of millions of streams. Collaborators include Aya Nakamura, Dadju, Tiwa Savage, Fally Ipupa, Oxlade and Jason Derulo.
- 1996
Origin
Tayc is connected to Marseille, France.
- 2017
Active era begins
Documented active period begins here and continues in the catalog.
- 2017
Museum record established
Culture Legacy curator metadata marks this record as part of the museum archive.
- 2018
Earliest song in Culture Legacy
Dorothée is the earliest dated lyric page currently attached to this artist.
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