I get what you both are saying bros,and thats the story of life,never a human will be only loved or only hated even hitler ben laden and co had people around them who told them i love you i miss you and so on jb's issue with ppus is that he has thrown his anger of ngulu problems on them which is partly understandable for a moment since for whatever reason when musicians do not return even if ngulu disappeared in same tour the french authorities would know true musicians did not return,dont forget also that all those groups of then used to snitch on each other due to rivalry so it was known that real musicians were leaving also which gradually lead to fally and ferre in recent years faiing their project of fara fara zenith olympia he needs to move on from that but then you know leaders,none of them tolerate musicians whose story is said by the staff as " ah boss asololaka bien te na kombo na yo hein" which is why every of those who spoke well of jb(4X4 members put aside) spoke well of him because they talked well of him and he helped them when they needed,thats how congolese music works
Do you expect F'Victeam to completely return in Kinshasa?
Serge Mabiala greeting his fans, talking about his song and also indirectly reacting against WMM’s staff who were saying that they would recruit another 2eme voix singer to punish him, the moment that he would return to Kinshasa. He also calmed people down, who heard that he left for moment during the tour (Adjani, Japonais & Serge Mabiala left for a moment).
its after Z1 and before his return to extra zangul,but he was given very hostile by the guys who were trying to force alain mpela out and were seeing a singer from brazza coming and potentially becoming another threat
I didn't know Alain Mpela was being pushed out BCBG, I thought JB and him fell out because JB thought Koffi was trying to poach him like Titina
Why didn't Regis Touba participate in Ouragan? If I recall, he tried to join Wenge BCBG but I'm not sure if that's true. Was this before Extra Musica International or after Z1 International?
Felix Wazekwa has a big catalogue, but ask random people to sing atleast 3 songs of Wazekwa, they won't know. Most people only knows his generiques.
True, the only rhumbas that immediately come to mind is Kito Epula and Tu Me Manque. I feel like his songs would have more impact if he gave his singers more space to sing, because they mostly handled choruses until Et Apres.
If you remember guys i had made a post about the story behind wazekwa's olympia,and in the last weeks came back to my memories the story of his attempted african tour before that concert joss gabanna hono cafe etienne and co had left already and wazekwa who was made aware of my going through start of depression and not seeing outside for a straight 45 days called me to invite me to kin to live with him for some time,which i accepted and few days after he started advising me to try to continue pursuing my dream of being a manager for a congolese artist and i told him that i had an uncle who had studied in france with some guys who had gone back to africa to be promoters and i got them in touch and we managed to have 4 deals,one for ivory coast,one for togo,one for benin and a playback in nigeria and we started preparing it completely outside kinshasa,on the way to kisantu, as wazekwa feared being sent spies to poach new musicians as it had happened before the loss of gesac and co and all went well we had to start with ivory coast and since wazekwa was nervous he asked to have soundcheck early in the morning and it all went okay and musicians went back and 5 hours before concert wazekwa tried to call promoter to ask to take musicians on a tour in the city to discover ,and phone was off until 1 hour before concert and he receives a text message telling him that concert cant happen anymore because it would upset relationship with other congolese artist and we had then to find a solution to go to next tour date in togo,there was 22 musicians and we had not planned it like that at all,wazekwa then called jb who had experience of tours and jb told him to go to see some people there in abidjan and he ended up having to pay just 5 tickets and we landed in togo and were taken to sarakawa hotel one of their two nicest then,and were well welcomed and we were hopeful that things would be different and once again the day of concert ya felly(felix) asked to have soundcheck early which we did then musicians went back to their rooms except eclipse who went downstairs at swimming pool and restaurant,he was very at ease since he was fluent in french then 4 hours before concert promoter called ya felly and myself in some sort of VIP reunion room of the hotel and started telling us how he liked congolese music and how he was impressed as he had been told that he wrote a couple of hits for koffi and papa wemba and that he had won kora,we chatted about various things then the guy with a change of tone,very low like he wanted to say something secret, and started asking wazekwa if he knew what he could to do get up to 3 times the contract they had agreed (which would become like 30k ) and wazekwa said yes give you a great show and he stood and started walking around and laughing and telling wazekwa i see that you got no experience in tours,then he sat again with a serious face and said you know what your congolese colleagues when they come they give us their dancers and if we are happy in bed we give them up to 10 times their contract and wazekwa shouts " quoi?moi mes danseuses?vous etes serieux?"(what?my dancers? are you serious?) And the guy insists starting to give examples of various artists and wazekwa removes his glasses and tells him" look at my eyes do i look like somebody doing this type of things" the guy laughs and said "come on now you are congolese artist you know how it is you guys' dancers are too exciting with their curves come on now dont act like you dont know" wazekwa punches the glass table in front of him out of anger and leaves the room while i am there apologising to hotel people for him breaking the table and offering to pay something to repair and i run to follow him in room with musicians and he calls them all to go downstairs at the swimming pool and snooker and he tells them listen i think we wont perform anymore these guys are not serious and some musicians ask why and he then sits and struggles to find words to explain that the guys wanted him to offer his 4 dancers before getting his first part of money and to his surprise most musicians including dancers themselves seem not to understand his choice as they are desperate to go back to kin with that pride of having toured abroad and getting some money too wazekwa is so furious that he leaves and goes and locks his door for a while ,then myself eclipse concorde and vicky nasdaq spend a good while to try to explain to musicians why its the best thing to do and he comes back and says to the dancers "you really think i refuse you wearing crazy outfits then to offer you to people like a piece of meat?its up to you if we go back to kin if you want to go where you can do like other dancers you are free,because i am like your father and i know your concern is that you see your colleagues from other groups going on tours and coming with gifts and money,but is that really the way you want to earn it?" and he goes again saying i need to pray before making a last decision While guitarists are starting to plug their guitars in front of an empty hall he comes and says sorry guys we are leaving here its not possible and he gives phone call to promoter saying he has to go and they are clean anyways since he has not received a single penny the producer tries to follow him at airport and tell him he is willing to up to 50k to which wazekwa says no thanks and pays a penalty to anticipate return we head to nigeria for the playback which went very well but unfortunately i missed out due to flu and stress and he was telling me that he was introduced to an artist there i am forgetting his name it had daddy in it,it seems like the guy did not make it very viral like davido and co then we were off to benin and we arrive and there is an hostile welcome surely due to what unfortunately happened at koffi's concert(which is not koffi's fault before i get misunterpreted) nevertheless the concert happens until by the second song bonjour monsieur the instruments start messing up badly then while technicians Try to correct the issues promoter takes me and wazekwa and starts talking about dancer olga tall with nice curves and making allusions and wazekwa looks at me like not again and goes to toilet then to his room musicians will perform one generique then sound messes again as heavy rain is starting so the concert stops and the promoters invite us to reunion room to offer us possibility of another concert with upgraded contract to the condition that olga and ursulle are given to him to have fun and wazekwa stands and says" dont even finish your sentence,thank you goodbye" and of course musicians are not really understanding and are moaning and he decides to pay them 250 dollars each to calm them down despite having barely performed like planned and we go bck to kinshasa and one at airport musicians will find back full happiness as they are welcomed at airport by somebody sent by cardozo muamba with 650 dollars for each musicians and the same day a couple of new musicians of the group will decide to go on tv to boast about tour like other musicians do and party in nightclub later while i go to my room in wazekwa's house feeling very guilty of having introduced him to people who upset him and i kept apologising the whole weekend while he kept saying its not my fault
Would you be open to working with Wazekwa again? It seems like you two still have good relations
Temoignage wasn’t finished yet. Sec Bidens wasn’t happy the way Bonbon Kojack and co were singing. They went to finish Temoinage in november 2005, re-recording the album in live format and adding new animations like Werra Champion, Ilo-Zapata, Kisanola, Beta Masasi, etc.
Thank God, I can't imagine what the album would be without those cries lol
The songs Temps Perdus it is almost a photocopy of my parents divorce which happened few months after the album was pubblished (I used to listen to that song a lot at home I had the DVD with Temoignage, the Kora concert and Primus AD Bonus plus the Bonus of Maisha Park with Werra, Fally, Wazekwa, Koffi, Wemba etc. talking in this Maisha park conference created to make a more united team of artists) and sometimes I think to myself if this album had anything to do with it, Kapaya
In this interview in French was saying that he was advicing to all people listening to the albums to erase the material or not to listen to it, and I have heard also stories about his guitar thst was kinda cursed, Kapaya is a serious person and really doesn't need to say bs for attention so this give more chances of the story of Temoignage being cursed true and furthermore I recall that in the Temoignage period I was really going crazy, I was I don't know a different person but I couldn't realize it back then and I don't know how can I explain that with normal words. Furthermore Bon Bon Kojack who sang like the woman being left in Temps Perdus (and had the very difficult task to replace Ferre) and started to have all kind of problems (diseasese, throat ache and so on) Kojack himself in this interviee said that he was deep into the game (witchcraft) and that he got on to it when a fan asked him money and after BonBon told him he didn't have any the fan replied you will die this is the reason why they don't take you neither to Brazzaville which got BonBon scared and replied no you will die. After that Bonbon decided to go the witchcrafter and the guy asked him if he wanted to sacrifice his son (which he made with an Arab girl) without any of the family even suspecting that he was the guy behind his baby killing but he refused
With all this evidence do you think that the album was cursed? To be honest I still listen to all of the album's songs (sebens only and generique) except Temps Perdus because that song reallly gives me bad bad bad vibes
I'm sorry about your parents splitting up. From what I heard, certain band members were receiving collateral damage from the "spiritual" aspects of promoting themselves. Kapaya would get it pretty bad when he attempted to go solo, I've heard some pretty rough stories
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