It is sad to see he is not talking about the real problems which is not witchcraft, but rather selfishness and everybody wanting to be the boss. This is not the way to run a successful band. Musicians are going more for success nowdays than doing quality thing. What matters is having the album not how the album sounds. Now, in that circumstance it is not a surprise the culture is declining. There was witchcraft in the 60's, 70's and 80's as well, the music scene was not like today even so.
I haven't noticed this up to know. Very interesting to see how the music sceen looked like in the 80's, the circumstance our favourite bands opearated in, the nightlife and local gigs, that we rarely see on footages.
Lesasa Jocker also Kuku Pemba started his career as a dancer but later on became a singer and band leader, his band Bilenge Musica original having its base in Nairobi Kenya in late 90s and 2000. Having key members like Darze Kalend Kangag being Chef de orchestra and the main atalaku, Rocky Bila grand soloists RIP, Jimmy Mukelenge, Awilo na Mbonda and others. Lesasa became one great singer even though he never started his career as a singer. In late 2000 Lesasa had a vision of establishing a fan base at United Emirates, this saw him perform there frequently with his band. He got in love with life there to the disappointment of some of the band members mainly Darze, a suggestion was made that they split the band and have one go back to Kenya and serve their primary base in Kenya. Before they went to Dubai they had a good fanbase in Kenya. Darze came back and constituted Bilenge Musica Du Congo while Lesasa remaining in Dubai with Bilenge Musica International. Now the two gentlemen lead and own the two entities of Bilenge. As to relationship between them, yeah warm cold, cold warm. The original Bilenge had great songs like Strategy, Malo malo and others. Lesasa Kuku Pemba is a great entertainer. Hahaha if you ask Lesasa he will tell you he's Kenyan not Congolese.
But where is he from actually? He is from the Congolese minority in Kenya, or from Congo?
But this video I shared initially seems to be Ferre Gola instead. When Lesasa shared this video I thought they are backing Ferre in the video, but it seems to me these are not them but Ferre's own group. I am not sure because I am not following Ferre, but anyhow, the song performed on stage sounds much better to me than the studio version on Youtube, where the instruments are a bit boring to me. On stage it is way much better.
A video recently posted by Lesasa Jocker, the head of the band in Dubai. Very nice keyboards, and stunningly clean vocals. I rarely hear so clean vocals live.
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