JB - TH which made JB Mpiana reach another dimension after the departure of his friends Blaise Bula and Alain Makaba and also the huge impact it had at that time despite the country and the diaspora being divided in Werra vs JB.Werrason - Kibuisa Mpimpa also like JB reaching another dimension it's impact and the way it influenced a whole generation and the artistic field on long termKoffi Olomidé - V12 having alot of classics (you noticed in interviews made at his home from 2012 to 2016 that his phone had hitsong Aspirine as ringtone), including Fouta Djallon which made from then 75% of his rumba's being based on it. King Kester Emeneya is dead, but if he was alive it think that he would say Nzinzi from 1987 he would in 90% of his interviews always mention Nzinzi. Saying that impact it had in the world, how it made him know around Africa and how most Congolese artists would from then would programmed songs instead of recording live (he used to claim that Nzinzi was the first album with programmed keyboards, while Wemba already did it with Siku ya Mungu in 1986 and Proclamation in 1984). Papa Wemba is like Emeneya not more on earth, but I don't think that he would refer to albums, but more to his singles ('aka 45 tours). In the time the he was on his prime (1977-1982), he used to release more singles instead of LP's with 4 songs. I think that he would mention Bokulaka of 1977 which made him feel like James Brown and having crowds being him when walking in the streets or the single Evenement of 1982, while people though that he died in prison when staying for 6 months in Europe, when coming back to Kinshasa a big crowd awaiting him and immediatly recording the song Evenement. After the creation of Nouvelle Ecriture, he started to play the song again (mostly towards the end of his concerts, but it would mostly be the second part of the song). from 0:30 min Wemba talking about Bokulaka saying that it was his "chanson fétiche"unfortunally there is not any footage of Wemba singing Bokulaka live on Tele Zaire in 70s, jumping, being almost in trance and Rigo Star doing the rock-guitar. Those videos very rare.Remix version of it when Martin Messoniers discovered Wemba and introduced him to world-musicThe song Evenement, Wemba singing that it's was not yet the time to die and mentioning Otis Redding and co in his songLive version of Evenement done in 2000 with Nouvelle Ecriture
You misunderstood me. Papa Wemba went on a trip to Europe which lasted 6 months. Then suddenly a rumor was spread in Kinshasa that he died in Europe at prison. Then when he returned, he got received like a king with plenty people at the streets and performing that 2x times at Cine Palladium in Kinshasa. He didn't had any trouble with Mobutu's regime. Mobutu wasn't interested in Wenge Musica and Koffi, he was only liking Franco & Tabu Ley who were of his generation. Koffi, Zaiko and Wenge Musica started to perform at his parties, because his children were fans of them, but wasn't really paying attention at time and found Wenge weird because they were wearing sunglasses all the time when performing live. King Kester Emeneya used to be a Viva La Musica-member from 1977 and 1982, they recorded plenty songs together also one with Pepe Kalle. After the creation of Victoria Eleison in 1982, they multiple historic fara-fara concerts from 1983 until 1993 many in Kinshasa, Lubumbashi and Paris. Since 1991 there were producers interested to have a duet-album, because of their long rivalery and the album already being named "Disque d'Or, but they couldn't produce it because the money Wemba and Emeneya were asking was to high for them. Then when Koffi started to rise he ended up by recording Wake Up with Wemba. Wake Up was a huge succes, but fans saw it more as a Koffi-album because of Koffi doing alot of vocals and most songs credited to him. They wanted a real duo-album and still dreaming about that Emeneya-Wemba album. Then around 1999/2000 JPS Production contacted both guys for a duo-album, wanting to offer both guys 200.000 franc francais which is like 35.000 dollars and both Emeneya and Wemba refusing, seeing not enough. from 1:08 min