Author Topic: ARCHIVE DJOUNA MUMBAFU AND HIS BAND IN 1999  (Read 2677 times)

archos on: January 18, 2021, 16:16

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Manzambi94 #1 on: January 18, 2021, 17:15

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Why did he fail solo career? He had a great album called Tonnere De Brest made in Europe with Nyboma and that dwarf guy and his wife I guess, but he promoted it very poorly

Mfumu Vata #2 on: January 18, 2021, 17:42

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lol, Dokolos and Jolie Bebe aren't a couple. Jolie Bebe lives in France and has his man, the same for Dokolos.In Empire Bakuba you used to have Emoro and after some years, Pepe Kalle thought that it would special if he also recruited a woman and they started from then to dance together. In 1992 Emoro passed away after performing in Bostwana. Pepe Kalle then recruited Dokolos to replace Emoro.


Tonerre de Brest didn't flop. It was a huge succes. It was well well promoted in the Congolese diaspora getting support from all journalist based here and also well promoted in Kinshasa, it was also alot promoted on the African diaspora media of France. The succes of Tonerre de Brest made Djuna getting nominated as "Best Male Central Africa" at the Kora Awards, but it was unlucky to have Werrason for Tindika Lokito and Felix Wazekwa for Sautez Deja in the same category. He had some concerts and toured around Africa with that album (Benin, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Angola, Brazzaville & Zimbabwe). For whatever reason, he wasn't releasing an album to continue the succes and he dissapeared slowly. In 2009 he wanted to make a comeback and started to record an album, but after a big car-accident when coming back from Angola, he needed some long time to recover. From that moment every time when he's about to make a comeback he dissapeard.



Djouna Mumbafu had everything to suceed after Pepe Kalle's death. He formed Delta Force along with Gode Lofombo and huge succes touring in Bas-Congo and going to Brazzaville, but leadership-war made Djouna leave the band after 3/4 months. After forming a new band he had still the fame giving succesfull concerts (Esplanade Palais du Peuple, FIKIN, being the guest of Wemba's concert at Stade des Martyrs, etc.). He had to bring his band to Europe in 2000 for a tour, but they didn't get visas after some calls from a jealous bandleader. It became to much for Djouna and he dediced to settle in Europe before returning to record Tonerre de Brest in 2003 in Kinshasa.

Wenge1995 #3 on: January 18, 2021, 19:11

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lol, Dokolos and Jolie Bebe aren't a couple. Jolie Bebe lives in France and has his man, the same for Dokolos.In Empire Bakuba you used to have Emoro and after some years, Pepe Kalle thought that it would special if he also recruited a woman and they started from then to dance together. In 1992 Emoro passed away after performing in Bostwana. Pepe Kalle then recruited Dokolos to replace Emoro.


Tonerre de Brest didn't flop. It was a huge succes. It was well well promoted in the Congolese diaspora getting support from all journalist based here and also well promoted in Kinshasa, it was also alot promoted on the African diaspora media of France. The succes of Tonerre de Brest made Djuna getting nominated as "Best Male Central Africa" at the Kora Awards, but it was unlucky to have Werrason for Tindika Lokito and Felix Wazekwa for Sautez Deja in the same category. He had some concerts and toured around Africa with that album (Benin, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Angola, Brazzaville & Zimbabwe). For whatever reason, he wasn't releasing an album to continue the succes and he dissapeared slowly. In 2009 he wanted to make a comeback and started to record an album, but after a big car-accident when coming back from Angola, he needed some long time to recover. From that moment every time when he's about to make a comeback he dissapeard.



Djouna Mumbafu had everything to suceed after Pepe Kalle's death. He formed Delta Force along with Gode Lofombo and huge succes touring in Bas-Congo and going to Brazzaville, but leadership-war made Djouna leave the band after 3/4 months. After forming a new band he had still the fame giving succesfull concerts (Esplanade Palais du Peuple, FIKIN, being the guest of Wemba's concert at Stade des Martyrs, etc.). He had to bring his band to Europe in 2000 for a tour, but they didn't get visas after some calls from a jealous bandleader. It became to much for Djouna and he dediced to settle in Europe before returning to record Tonerre de Brest in 2003 in Kinshasa.

I'm assuming the artist that sabotaged Djouna was Koffi, I can't think of anyone else whose obsessed with being number one and has that influence in Congolese music. I suspect he's the common denominator for Defao being blocked as well

Manzambi94 #4 on: March 23, 2023, 23:03

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lol, Dokolos and Jolie Bebe aren't a couple. Jolie Bebe lives in France and has his man, the same for Dokolos.In Empire Bakuba you used to have Emoro and after some years, Pepe Kalle thought that it would special if he also recruited a woman and they started from then to dance together. In 1992 Emoro passed away after performing in Bostwana. Pepe Kalle then recruited Dokolos to replace Emoro.


Tonerre de Brest didn't flop. It was a huge succes. It was well well promoted in the Congolese diaspora getting support from all journalist based here and also well promoted in Kinshasa, it was also alot promoted on the African diaspora media of France. The succes of Tonerre de Brest made Djuna getting nominated as "Best Male Central Africa" at the Kora Awards, but it was unlucky to have Werrason for Tindika Lokito and Felix Wazekwa for Sautez Deja in the same category. He had some concerts and toured around Africa with that album (Benin, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Angola, Brazzaville & Zimbabwe). For whatever reason, he wasn't releasing an album to continue the succes and he dissapeared slowly. In 2009 he wanted to make a comeback and started to record an album, but after a big car-accident when coming back from Angola, he needed some long time to recover. From that moment every time when he's about to make a comeback he dissapeard.



Djouna Mumbafu had everything to suceed after Pepe Kalle's death. He formed Delta Force along with Gode Lofombo and huge succes touring in Bas-Congo and going to Brazzaville, but leadership-war made Djouna leave the band after 3/4 months. After forming a new band he had still the fame giving succesfull concerts (Esplanade Palais du Peuple, FIKIN, being the guest of Wemba's concert at Stade des Martyrs, etc.). He had to bring his band to Europe in 2000 for a tour, but they didn't get visas after some calls from a jealous bandleader. It became to much for Djouna and he dediced to settle in Europe before returning to record Tonerre de Brest in 2003 in Kinshasa.

I'm assuming the artist that sabotaged Djouna was Koffi, I can't think of anyone else whose obsessed with being number one and has that influence in Congolese music. I suspect he's the common denominator for Defao being blocked as well

You were right on Koffi for Deao but we will never know about Djouna