I think that it was a mistake from Stino, to go a different in his third album Invitation. His first two albums were made of the pure Viva La Musica-style from the Nouvelle Generation/Made in Paris-Generation (1988-1993), having Bongo Wende on the lead on the songs, Ping-Pong who's was important for many Viva-albums of the late 80s and early 90s and Yves Demukuse. But for his 3th album he wanted to go a different artistic direction, to fight Wenge Musica and Quartier Latin who stole their places in nightclubs like La Reference, Hollywood, etc. (Viva albums being less played in those nightclubs), which made him invite Caien Madoka to play that Wenge-style and Tutu Kaluji to make people dance. The themes of the songs were good and the arrangement also, but there was something missing to make most songs catchy. Some arrangements weren't even matching with the songs (for example Mathias). The album flopped very hard, despite the participation of Bozi Boziana, JB Mpiana, Madilu and Papa Wemba. Looks like the Viva-public and his own fans totally boycotted him from making an aggresive chance. I think it had also to do with not even one song matching the level of hits-song (song like Mista, MJ Ngoyi and Romeo & Julliette). Thinking now about his rival Reddy Amisi, I think that Reddy succeed with his first album Compteur a Zero after his departure from Viva La Musica, because he his solo-albums who were released when he was with Wemba being already diffrent from Viva-style (especially Prudence and Ziggy), which made it also already easier to accept his album. With Etoile he was already unlucky that it was released in the same period when Pepe Kalle's Cocktail, Maison Mere's Force d'Intervention Rapide and BCBG's Titanic came out. Also, him not getting the blessing anymore from Wemba who was furious at him to use like Stino, atalaku's in his album.