Like politics, music has a lot of cadres who seem to support artists in everything be it good or bad. I do not want to sound perfect or better than others but Wenge Maison Mere is so poorly manged even a five year old baby would tell. They recruit everyday. Some musicians leave even before making it on an album. Werrason needs to check the following:

1. You cannot have half the band leave a few weeks before release of an album and still have the guts to say they are wrong. You are not dealing with babies but adults who reason and they will question your thinking.

2. Music comes with attachments, you cant keep changing musicians like clothes and expect to keep a large fan base.

3. No matter how good an album is if half of the people who sung on it leave shortly before its release, then it will be a flop

3. Why do admins, Kakol and one artist seem to receive favours while those who have stayed longer, are better musicians and remained loyal are sidelined? What kind of management is that? Worse still they are volunteers?? Only street kids would remain in such a band.

4. If musicians leave you to join an artist of their age and generation with only one album, it says a lot about how frustrated they are. All their boss does is to share pictures of his newly acquired mansion in Chicago with his preferred team members enjoying while the rest wallow in poverty despite sacrificing so much for the group. That is simply unacceptable and Congo DR should check this.

5. As time goes all the remaining good ones will go and it will even be difficult to poach from other bands.


Lobeso, Polyster, Arnake, Olivier, Eboa (close), Tadet (close), Mile (close) ...... all these are almost out of the band and all you do is insult them and show off your wealth while favouring others?? Let him shift to Chicago and get a job for some American artist as a sound engineer or something than torture these innocent hard working young men and women. His style of management is the worst in history. Congo DR should have a regulatory institution, levels of exploitation in the music industry are too high and Werrason should be the first target.

Watanabe should just get the entire band. Let him get Kakol, Bikorino, Sarah, Ambulance and the rest. He knows what he is doing and success is assured. Werrason and JB should retire stop wasting our time. JB takes a decade to release an album and Werrason runs his band like a piggery. That is what has remained of Wenge!

Nalanda napwisha!

Tell us something we don't know I've been frustrated with maison mere for years it's way too crowded like it's hard to get to know the musicians and there's too much polemic inside the band itself which is unprofessional and unnacceptable

Yeah from the days of Bill and Ferre it seems like Werra is not at dealing with his employees. Too much recruitment in that band, too many public displays of inner conflict, having admins and the chief mess with some of the employees. And it makes no sense that someone new and who isn't even that good of a singer like Nicodem gets taken on private trips but long serving members like Eboa or Taddet get left behind.

all this are the long term consequences of  lack of "western" tours,when maison mere was going to europe,you'd get a minor problem like the celeo/brigade/aimelia thing in a while and it was not even going viral, look at it well the maison mere issues have completely exploded from the failed werra wemba VIP,we've seen from then any types of situations,musicians dissing each other on tv's,musicians secretly travelling on the group's back like fabregas,musicians involved in fights against each other....
i dont remember which member of the golden maison mere said that, but the guy said we'd soon see werra into a proper solo career and that's whats starting to happen unless he performs a surprising turnaround to prove he can still be that guy who makes stars for fun

This is why Adolphe and Didier masela should've stayed

I'm a big Werra fan, but even the biggest Werra fan would be naive to not notice the band's malpractices

This is why Adolphe and Didier masela should've stayed

And have their have their checks and promotional money eaten by Werra as he humiliated them to secure his power? As sad as their abrupt departures were, it was necessary for them

I really feel for some of their employees who gave it their all, but it didn't mean much

you'd get a minor problem like the celeo/brigade/aimelia thing in a while

What was that problem?

celeo wanted to beat aimelia who was  the second chef at that time and who recruited brigade who celeo hated at that time,it even happened that celeo slapped aimelia at a rehearsal but aimelia kept his cool in front of people

celeo wanted to beat aimelia who was  the second chef at that time and who recruited brigade who celeo hated at that time,it even happened that celeo slapped aimelia at a rehearsal but aimelia kept his cool in front of people

These guys. Smh. Isnt Aimelia senior in terms of age to be slapped by Celeo Scram?

celeo wanted to beat aimelia who was  the second chef at that time and who recruited brigade who celeo hated at that time,it even happened that celeo slapped aimelia at a rehearsal but aimelia kept his cool in front of people

These guys. Smh. Isnt Aimelia senior in terms of age to be slapped by Celeo Scram?

In WMM it happens and the boss and admin see t as a normal thing and perhaps even encourage it.

celeo wanted to beat aimelia who was  the second chef at that time and who recruited brigade who celeo hated at that time,it even happened that celeo slapped aimelia at a rehearsal but aimelia kept his cool in front of people

Wowwwww aimelia should've slapped him back how disrespectful

celeo wanted to beat aimelia who was  the second chef at that time and who recruited brigade who celeo hated at that time,it even happened that celeo slapped aimelia at a rehearsal but aimelia kept his cool in front of people

These guys. Smh. Isnt Aimelia senior in terms of age to be slapped by Celeo Scram?

In WMM it happens and the boss and admin see t as a normal thing and perhaps even encourage it.

That's also one of the other problems with maison mere it's like a playground and high school

I really can't get this rant. Maison Mere has been a revolving door for as long a is can remember and that in many ways justifies the constant recruitment. As a Maison Mere fan my allegiance is to Werra because the employees will always move no matter what and there's always going to be someone to replace them. Ironically JB Mpiana was getting a lot of stick for sticking with same musicians for so long and fans keep calling for some sort of overhaul but when Werra allows musicians to leave frequently it's a problem again.

I think some of these claims of staff mistreatment are extremely exaggerated. No grown man would stay in band for 10 years and then claim he has always been mistreated. They could have easily moved out. They have realised that they are about to become less important in the band and will come with any excuse to leave.

As far as musicians moving to join their age mates, that's not really Werra's problem but it's got everything to do with the departing musicians. Either they don't have enough confidence in their ability to go out and do their own thing or they are just not cut for it.

Reading this post one would imagine the likes of Fabregas, Watta are not losing musicians and it's only Werra who is losing musicians. Lobeso lost Limousine less than a week after luring him from Werra. LOL.... I trust Werra to re organise his team like he has done time and again.

Zamuda, i tend to agree with you. Wata already lost 2 musicians. Am very sure Werra will pull up another surprise. I do foresee some musicians leaving Wata as he so many good singers in the group who will not very utilised.

In the meantime, it may be a setback but judging from Maison Mere's history, he normally gets even better musicians and also sure some of the guys leaving will miss the Zamba limelight and beg back like Limousine.

Fortunately the album is almost out.

If i were to compare werrason and Jb mpiana, the former is better musically because over the years, werrason has experimented and has performed better. Yes, his mass recruitment and exodus of defections has finally landed him in a pit as at now. He needs a better formula. Jb on the other hand has performed poorly with his same style for so long. You all know it's because he wears the "same shirt" (mikulis). Jb should retire earlier than werrason in my opinion.