I knew Papa Wemba had success in America as a "World musician", but SNL is a huge milestone! That's a whole audience of folks unaware of African music and they loved his performance.He's lucky to have performed then, because musical guests were expected to participate in the comedic sketches as well since 90s lolI wish Koffi Olomide signed with Sony back in 1998, because it could give him the exposure that Sonodisc couldn't.
I remember someone told me about this a while back but I didn’t really pay attention to it.I’m glad Koffi didn’t sign with Sony otherwise we wouldn’t have got Attentat, FDF, Effrakata, ADE.
Sadly he didn't took full advantage of it, in his carrier he did have more opportunities but didn't use its.
These big labels never knew what to do with African artists. They will just take your show money with a 360 slave deal.The Real World was an indie label. That's why Wemba was able to create real music, not some poppish bubble gum music.