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Miss Tanya

Born in Cinkansé, on the Togolese border, Miss Tanya is the queen of Burkina Faso's atropop: the first female artist to fill the Ouagadougou municipal stadium, three-time winner of the Kundé 2025 with "Pananki".

Miss Tanya — picture by the artist
Photo: Yendifa — Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 license
Origine
Burkina Faso
Based on
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Discipline
Afrobeat, afropop
Discipline
Kora player, singer and composer — Gambian griot music

Douti Tani Bikienga, known as Tanya, was born on 19 October 1997 in Cinkansé, Burkina Faso. Trained between Cinkansé and Accra, a marketing graduate, she composed from high school and entered the studio in 2013, before launching her career in 2018 with the single "Dodo" and tours in Burkina Faso, Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal and Mauritania.

Her first album, "Héroïne", was released on October 17, 2022. On November 12, 2022, she became the first female artist to fill the Ouagadougou Municipal Stadium, ahead of more than 25,000 spectators. Her titles "Ma Bague first", "Sugar Daddy" with Floby and "Bad Days" with Hiro made her the most played singer in the country.

In 2025, "Pananki" won him three Kundé — Public Prize, Best Music and Best Women's Artist — and her second album, "Göndal", was released in November 2025. Ambassador of Burkina Faso's cultural heritage and U-Report UNICEF ambassador, she was named Kundé d'Or in 2026.

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