guélor rwinga dirango aka brigade sarbati "hercule la force qui écrase" was born on 22 of june of 1980 in kinshasa, he is father of three children isaac,jeremie and bridget and the children of papa padjou rwinga keps and mama servéline bambu,and is from the region of katanga
during his childhood,he spends his spare time playing football and learning judo,he dreams to be become an electrical enginer but at 14 he gets fed up of school and abandons class to play football with the hope of soon becoming professional,as he is seen as a promising talent by coachs of the youth teams he was in
two years after,,he makes his debut with a 3rd division team of kinshasa and this is where his musical talent is spotted,as he sings and tries to imitation tutu caludji's animations before and after games when their team won and party
he then starts combining  tenor singing and tenor animation in street groups but focuses more on football as he dreams to follow the foosteps of african players who succeeded in europe like george weah,kanu ....
but months after joining that team  he loses motivation due to the difficult conditions they train in,they play for free whereas he vows to help his parents who are not wealthy,that is when he is introduced in the end of 1996/debut 1997 to smalto dizoizo,a musician based in brussels who comes to kinshasa sometimes
the then nicknamed reagan joins dizoizo's group black story where he shares animation duties with diego cao, and later cellulaire
 in 1998 he is tested alongside gentamicine,but both return to their street groups certainly seeing  they would be reserves of bill clinton and celeo scram
two years after,as he sees his careers either  as musician or as a footballer are not going anywhere,he decides knocking the door of big groups,he starts with zaiko langa langa but his test is not succesful,then tries  his luck with the new born wenge tonya tonya of adolphe dominguez,alongside atalakus like diego,kerozene,washington or also the very young petit chirac
after a couple of rehearsals a friend of his who knows where koffi lives and is aware of koffi looking for new atalaku to complement cnn brings him to koffi's house to be tested,a good hundred of atalakus are tested and  reagan then  is among the 5 guys kept  at koffi's house(with kerozene) to be trained and compliment cnn once they are ready
he is the first of them to make a public concert appearance and he impresses,from then he became brigade B52 to mark a difference with petit reagan who is with blaise bula
months after,when cnn leaves the group,brigade is associated to kerozene as koffi tries to replicate the celeo/ bill clinton duo of maison mere
both participate on the second solo album of koffi after birth of academia,album effrakata which is a big hit
they are  then taken on all tours in europe,africa and america
two years later,brigade gets the very first song of his career as he is allowed to add the song code pin to group album affaire d'etat and koffi then calls him brigadier sabatini but months after release of album relations turn sour between him and  koffi and he leaves the group after american tour
he spends months at home,distraught and uncertain about his future in music,is brought by a friend to rehearsals of cultura pays vie where he is tested but wazekwa does not  recruit him due to  to bad experience with some ex-quartier latin and strange things happening to them
with the switch of tutu caludji to permanent singing, a place is up for grabs in wenge bcbg  and he is tested  but is only used rarely due to hostility of fans as bcbg and quartier latin are in conflict
after three weeks in the group brigade is told to stay at home as jb and koffi reconciled(similar situation happening with cnn) and deny any question related to bcbg
 in 2004,he goes back to maison mere to knock the door again,and gets a overall decent reaction from the crowd
but overshadowed by roi david,brigade decides to swallow his pride and go back to quartier latin where he comes back with a quite different style of animation and stage antics,which could be likened partly to the ones of his new colleague apocalypse
 he participates in single boma nga n'elengi and the generique longitima and shines with the controversial mama pesa sima papa abeta tonga
also participates one year later to group album danger de mort but he misses second europe tour of the year,where the group would record album of the group's chef d'orchestre fally ipupa,as he is suspended following a fight between him and apocalypse
the generique of that album is then changed and given to apocalypse
brigade seeing he is not called back  to end his suspension goes back to maison mere,where he is accepted back  but is in open conflict with celeo scram due to their future common ex-girlfriend mimi tshikeva
 he participates to maxi single sous sol  alongside prince,roi david,celeo and kene kene,misses the first european tour but is there in 2007 at elysée montmartre in paris,he impresses so much that he becomes the main atalaku,especially iwith the departure of celeo
he leads the atalaku section which  records album temp present in 2008
in 2009 when the group releases album malewa vol 1 he shines again with another controversial animation" sima ekoli"
and throughout his career in maison mere is often criticized for that tendancy of creating  too explicit lyrics(not that explicit but adults understand easily what he means)
he is everywhere with maison mere,europe,africa, and really confirms his growing popularity at zenith in 2010 with le le le,noel ngiama analeta mambo and so on
 he participates aswell to second part of malewa,suite et fin and  also announces  with the group ,in various concerts the future release of fleche india,fleche ingeta,with new animations he created
but in 2012 after an incident involving him and singer heritier watanabe(or his friends) he is seriously injured
almost one year after,he announces departure from maison mere and is currently working on first solo album tout va bien

 

What about Heritiers bio?

yeah i  will finish it don"t worry,i have had a bit of trouble ever since doing two biographies at same time so it was bit messed up
but i promise it very soon

Why did Koffi want to pair Brigade and CNN because they sound very similar to eachother.  Why did Brigade really leave after Affaire D' Etat? And why did fight Apocalypse?

koffi did not pair them for a long time,it was that ocean remained in europe so they needed another atalaku
and then koffi's problems with cnn over a dancer made it easier for him to get exposure with his pire petit kerozene
about him leaving in 2003, i think he was sidelined for claiming something about money,cambodge also left the same time  if i remember
that's the version i know,that he wanted some money from koffi and complained for not receiving it and from then koffi ignored him
 as for the fight with apoca,competition was tense between them to be number 1 atalaku and one day after insulting each other it ended up in brigade beating apoca and the day they were going on europe tour, brigade was told by chef d'orchestre fally on koffi's order that he was being suspended( since in quartier latin the whole group was going at airport and its there they knew who was on the list or not)

Archos,  when did Brigade first join Maison Mere?

Archos,  when did Brigade first join Maison Mere?

tested in 98,joined in 2004 first then returned  in sous sol days

Thanks, i watched an earlier test together with a former QL atalaku at a MM concert.

brigade seeing he is not called back  to end his suspension goes back to maison mere,where he is accepted back  but is in open conflict with celeo scram due to their future common ex-girlfriend mimi tshikeva

Mimi Tshikeva must be the queen of head.............tongue ring to boot

Is she Avatar Brandon's Mother ?

How old is she ?

yep that's brandon's mother,she is more of less same age with  wenge guys,lets say  max 2 years older than alain mpela

Naming mimi Tshikeva i think i will need translation for these two tracks

Brigade is a good singer. I hope his rumba songs will be worth listening to.

Good info archos, thanx alot, now I know why Brigade and Apocalypse don't get along now.

I didn't even know he had passed through BCBG too. JB is really disciplined, he never goes against his principles, he would never again employ any musician from rival groups.

brigade seeing he is not called back  to end his suspension goes back to maison mere,where he is accepted back  but is in open conflict with celeo scram due to their future common ex-girlfriend mimi tshikeva

Mimi Tshikeva must be the queen of head.............tongue ring to boot

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