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Messages - Franco Pepe Kalle

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Shamala you raised a great question.

We are seeing the end of golden era of Congolese Music. It has been gone for some time. I would say that East African music was great during the 1970s and 1980s. Congolese Music was golden from 1980s to mid 2000s.

Congolese music started to become very known in 1980s when Franco and Tabu Ley went to my country USA. That is where you started to see people enjoy Congolese music. Already Europe had some awareness of Congolese music. I would say that Rumba music was great in 1980s with Franco, Bokelo, and Tabu Ley. We call that Rumba Odemba. But then Congolese music became more and more sebene music. Soukous music comes as result of Kanda Bongo Man, Nyboma, Pepe Kalle, Zaiko Langa Langa, and Papa Wemba. 1980s was a great time because you had the Odemba age vs the soukous age. But when the 1990s came, we had the birth of CLAN WENGE. We had Wenge El Paris and Wenge Musica BCBG 4x4. These groups became the new youth while Papa Wemba, Pepe Kalle and others became the old soukous age. Zaiko Langa Langa and Wenge Musica were the groups on top with Zaiko representing the older group with Wenge being the younger version of them. It was about music.

Early and mid 2000s were excellent as well because you had older artists coming back like Tabu Ley's final album Tempelo. You also had return of Bibi Dens, and others. Congolese music was starting to get better. But in 2007, that all changed in my opinion. All the sudden with the controversial election of Joseph Kabila, Congolese music took a major dive. All the sudden Congolese politicians want to get recognition so they ask the artists to help out. That is when the mabanga thing got out of control. Also the white folks had enough of African music as a whole. So this is leading to the end of African music. That is the unfortunate reality but it is the truth.

The only music doing well is West African music because it is English. DUH. East African, Southern and Congolese music have been declining. Also West African Music has done a good job doing some Afro-pop music as DJ Sly and Tata Nkiadi pointed out already. That is the truth. So Shamala, we can only look forward to West African Music.

1787
Congolese Music / Re: MIMI CIEL
« on: July 12, 2014, 18:36 »
Another daughter of Tabu Ley.

1788
Earlier and better days of Wenge Tonya Tonya.

1789
Congolese Music / Re: STRANGE NAMES ON WENGE MUSICA LIST
« on: July 12, 2014, 17:11 »
yes they occupied important strategic posiitions,but to say they ran the group  impossible, the 4 administrators werra,mukulu,masela,makaba share responsabilities
for example jb and makaba  were signing contracts,werra was getting  the money and sharing it with the admins plus blaise and tata
 masela was however the least influent
theirs skills were complementary which help wenge reach the  top
like werra's cousin kija brown said in an interview about a book he is writing,wenge  is werra jb makaba and a bit masela
With Makaba stay in Europe most of the time, Werra and JB shared the Supreme leadership of the group, on most Concerts you could see Werra Directing band members what to do, he even had powers to suspend musicians, After the release of Feux D amour JB became more popular and in result wanted to strengthen his position as a supreme leader of the group, which Werra wouldnt agree to cede some powers
I believe JB had more the of the charisma than Werrason. I believe Adolphe and Didier Masela were the ones who were not impressed with JB Mpiana which I believe was the reason why they joined Werrason.

1790
Wow I love you is more popular than Je t'aime or Nalingi yo or even Nakupenda. Everyone remembers the word I love you.

1791
Congolese Music / Re: STRANGE NAMES ON WENGE MUSICA LIST
« on: July 12, 2014, 00:27 »
Thanks for the answer Archos. I asked because I know some time ago, Werrason tried to convince Didier Masela to comeback but of course he did not.

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Congolese Music / Re: STRANGE NAMES ON WENGE MUSICA LIST
« on: July 11, 2014, 23:46 »
I wonder if Didier Masela, Adolphe Dominguez and Werrason were close friends?

1793
Congolese Music / Re: FOR THOSE IN KIN..JB CONCERT GHK 13th
« on: July 08, 2014, 19:10 »
La classe c'est la difference :D
Tu es droite Mr. C'est la verite totale.

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Congolese Music / Re: FOR THOSE IN KIN..JB CONCERT GHK 13th
« on: July 08, 2014, 19:03 »
Papa Cherie knows how to look like a boss.

1795
Congolese Music / Re: MANDA CHANTE PRESENTS HIS NEW GROUP
« on: July 08, 2014, 16:25 »
Manda Chante is most unlucky out of the Wenge clan. Despite making good music, nobody gives one damn about him.

1796
Pelle, Amando Diego, Ali Muhammed etc, were very good at their thing, they retired, what is special about kibense?
They were athletes. Of course when  you do sports, you can do limited times. However Kibense is a musician. Music can be done anytime unless you are sick and not well.

1797
... I wonder what will come out first , Ingeta or the ever talked about Primus single... ;D ;D ;D
I think Kaisari is making more sense than the Werra and Ferre camps. This looks phony to me.

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Congolese Music / Re: Trivia for Grand Maitre Franco
« on: July 07, 2014, 21:59 »
Archos does make a good point. Franco did notice Wemba a lot. In fact in Franco's interview with Lukunku Sampu, he mentions Wemba

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Congolese Music / Re: Bill Clinton song for Brazil
« on: July 07, 2014, 20:47 »
These songs need T-Pain. Everyone wants to do Autotune. Where is T-Pain when you need him.

1800
I am guessing Abraham is the son of JB's first wife that later on went with Didi.

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