Brother sometimes we need to start accepting the truth rather than argue. Yes Fally, Innos and Koffi are artist we can exclude from this discussion because they are huge and they make serious money with or without Mabanga.
my point was and is if we remove those 3 stars we just highlighted, Congolese music is nothing in 2023
The language barrier can be an Issue yes but even Nigerian Afrobeat is sang in pidgen not fully English and yet they are moving units. if you look at Congolese music going back to 30 years ago they used to make serious money and used to get contract and promotion deals not anymore
Mabanga and slow Rumbas has killed Congolese music and we cannot deny it,
wonder why Awilo Longomba is the only Congolese artist to have penetrated Nigerian market up to date is because Awilo music was a show/dance able music, even with the language barrier , speaking Lingala Awilo managed to capture Nigeria's attention
for your information look at K-Pop music they don't speak English and sure as hell don't make good music but K-Pop is all over the world and K-Pop artist have penetrated American market and won all their Grammy and awards
The reason Fally is not known in the state isn't because of language barrier because music has no language but rhythm,
the difference is that Nigerians promote their music in the state with serious money and label push, they don't just make music and wait for it to be popular in the state they actually put money behind their music for promotions in the state, another thing you should know is that Nigerian promoters are pushing and lobbying for the Grammy Awards by 2025 for the Grammy's to have an established Afrobeats Music category. and this is something Congolese Artist don't do and can never do due to lack of resources, seriousness and solidarity among themselves
