Linda-Philomene Tsoungui

Linda-Philomène (Philo) Tsoungui (born 1992 in Plauen) is a Cameroonian-German drummer, percussionist, and music producer. She has been the drummer for The Mars Volta since ~2022, as well as several German acts, including singer Mine, rapper Fatoni, and rapper Chefket.

Life and career Tsoungui was born in Plauen, Germany to a Cameroonian father and the German opera singer Annett Tsoungui. At the age of six, she moved with her parents to Hof, where she later attended the musically oriented Jean-Paul-Gymnasium high school. She initially received piano lessons before switching to drums, studying under Claudio Estay and Johannes Potzel.

From 2011 to 2015, she studied classical percussion at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München with Peter Sadlo and Bastian Jütte. During her studies, she participated in various ensembles, including the Munich-Percussion-Ensemble, which led her to concert tours in Egypt, Azerbaijan, and Oman. In 2014, she performed in the ensemble for the production of Bernd Alois Zimmermann's opera Die Soldaten at the Bavarian State Opera under Kyrill Petrenko. She also collaborated with Martin Grubinger, Kent Nagano, and Steve Reich. She was a scholarship recipient of the Neue Franz Liszt Stiftung and the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation LiveMusicNow.

Tsoungui has played for numerous bands and artists, including Antonia Dering's SiEA, Tiger Tiger, Madanii, Evelinn Trouble, Donskoy, Elif, and Seba Kaapstad. She is currently the drummer for Mine, Fatoni, Chefket, Mal Élevé, Moli, and Lxandra.

In August 2017, she toured China and Hong Kong with the Hong Kong-based producer and singer Khalil Fong.

Since 2019, she has been the musical director for Fatoni, with whom she toured Germany in the fall of 2019.

Since 2022, she has been touring as the drummer for The Mars Volta.

Teaching Tsoungui has taught for "Online Lessons TV" and was a jury member of the "Austrian Drummer Awards" in 2018.

In September 2019, she gave her first clinic at the Dresden "Drum and Bass Festival" focusing on electronic production and drumming in a band context.

Selected discography Tiger Tiger: O Trust (2019) Mine: Klebstoff (2019) The Mars Volta: Lucro Sucio; Los Ojos del Vacío (2025) The Mars Volta: Lucro Sucio; Unfinished Business (2026) Rodriguez Lopez Productions