what i did not want to see is already happening,websites are posting videos of "spectacular" arrival of some musicians and praising them i find it really stupid,today the "star" is babia,nobody else
kie kie kie djodjo osekisi nga mabe.... this is the sad reality of the music of the "grand pretres" surrounded by friends and petits trying to handle responsabilities they have no special skills for on another note it seems spokesmen have been forbidden to go on tv by kimbuta
yes technically singers can do what they do but since they have been given a role for over 2 decades now i find it unfair that their role would stop completeley kanyama has apparently scared musicians and their employees enough so that they stop polemic anyway
like carine he says he was surprised and shocked that no musician went to lufu,the congolese city where they were able to get babia's body from to get it back to kinshasa and only shakakongo was there,and he says shakakongo deserves a lot of respect for how he is always available to help out artists(having himself abandoned career to focus on that) in every type of tough situation( illness,problems with police or with justice...) and he criticizes group leaders(the most popular ones) saying that when its a big name who just died they do everything to unsettle shakakongo from funerals so they can get money from authorities,but when its guys like babia who are not huge stars they leave him alone and dont really care about those funerals he says people from angola who got his body from there to congo where surprised to see nobody from quartier latin there and he thanks those donors who paid so that babia's body could arrive in congo he says general kanyama should have also called mosaka who create the name of vieux ebola but wonders how koffi is so often involved in justice problems and in polemic and says koffi should really sit down and think about it the strategy of accepting that nickname was not good from koffi and he advises young artists to stop drinking too much and says babia had stopped it and became healthy again he says when babia was suffering a lot koffi offered 400 dollars(which was not enough them to make him recover) and now he is dead koffi offered 4000 and he thinks maybe koffi did that to clear conscience because if koffi really cared about him he would not have allowed him to be in such bad state for several years before recovering and that was the moment to give good amounts of money he urges groups not to miss funerals because of conflicts with koffi and also all groups not even dare having personal concerts the day of funerals because they will play in front of nobody as whole kinshasa wants to honour babia chokoro one last time at the end he says some artists attack him late in the night but did not mention names
jb mpiana and fellow administrators blaise bula and alain makaba,aswell as singers alain mpela and aimelia lias,guitarists ficarré mwamba,burkina faso mbokaliya,patient lutu kusangila,fiston zamuangana savimpi,drummers titina alcapone and seguin mignon, atalakus roberto dilancray ekokota wunda and tutu caludji number one,keyboard player theo bidens,secretary mbuta kiss kisolokele,dancers mulala and monica aswell as spokesmen roger ngandu and blanchard mosaka create the group wenge bcbg les anges adorables while on europe tour in early 1998, they record group album titanic where jb mpiana is the only one to release two songs,one is a song with heavy traditional influence of the main ethnic groups of the country which had switched from the name of zaire to the name of RDC(DRC in english), all perfectly represented by bcbg members the second song is omba,voted as song of the year on par with werrason's chantal their first album is a great success and leads to several tours in africa,europe and america one year after,jb and wenge bcbg are the first of 4th generation to perform at zenith and olympia,they also perform at stade de martyrs after european tour,which jb becoming officially the only band leader with departures of alain makaba and blaise bula all three concerts are a huge success and jb's popularity keeps growing even more,especially with his rivalry with his friend werrason in the other big wenge,maison mere before jb records his second solo album, he releases single y'a pas match with remixes of generique ndombolo and song papito,to introduce his new team of wenge bcbg(gentamicine,chai ngenge,sunda bass...i wont say some other names lol) few months after, in june of 2000 jb mpiana releases second solo album TH(toujours humble) and like first solo album is a great success and earns him several awards like once again singer of the year,artist of the year,star of the year on par with his friend but rival werrason,song of the year... in total 11 trophies in same year aswell as tours in africa and europe in november,he gets a first proposal of concert at bercy in france but prefers going to equatorial guinea for a bigger contract in 2001,its time for a second group album internet but meanwhile jb announces another solo album chemin de fer and will finally add songs which were destined to that album to the group album internet(jeannette,bea zodeguem and sans te toucher) he gets singer of the year award,best song and star of the year on par with werrason once again in the same year he also becomes the third congolese after koffi olomidé and werrason to perform at bercy,in september after a succesful europe tour, jb mpiana and bcbg return to kinshasa and perform in december for the second time at stade des martyrs,in front of an insane crowd arguably the biggest ever there(on par with werra's martyrs two years later) in 2002 he goes again on europe and american tour and announces group album anti terroriste(anti-terro) and gets another star of the year award on par with werrason one year after when in europe starting the recording of anti terro with his reserve group PPU jb mpiana has to rush back to kinshasa as he highly under threat of be caught for ngulu affair( human traffic) and from then start serving a 5 year ban in europe anti terro is finally released in august of 2004 one year later,jb mpiana and werrason have arguably the longest concert in congolese music for exactly 17hours and 48 minutes at fikin,and concert was even stopped because of gun shots otherwise it could have lasted longer in 2006,jb and bcbg record album kipe ya yo between kinshasa and united kingdom and has a concert in paris has after long negotiation he is allowed for just one concert one year later in december,jb and bcbg release "maxi single" quel est ton probleme with songs like zadio and liberez instantly catching attention of fans thanks to that maxi single,jb gets contracts for some concerts in europe and america and announce in 2009 future album soyons sérieux that album is recorded until the end of 2010 between kinshasa and paris and is fully ready and packed in december 2010 but producer david monsoh chooses to release it in february of 2011 close to valentines day one year after,j in june 2012 jb and his group start balle de match,which goes from 3 songs initially,to 8 later,then to 12,Then to 15 and then to 30 and is in his last stages at solo level,jb mpiana is yet to release long awaited chemin de fer which he absolutely wants to record from first to last second in europe
kie kie kie djodjo we could spent a whole day listing the number of people our musicians should get rid it off to become truly professional i always think about it whenever i see ya réné lokua kanza in a tramway wearing simple shirts and jeans with his guitar on his back,no bodyguard,no "staff", no " pire petit",no " momie" ....
brigade aza mutema mabé lol how on earth do you let a bill/djouna copycat doing such high notes,he should have told him to interpret a part of his own atalakus
of course their role is limited,dont expect them to do song analysis and stuff like that,but it would be unfair to condemn the whole corporation because of clan wenge and quartier latin spokesmen who have always been the most involved in polemic many do their job quietly and properly also they feed their families with that job or "job" if we consider them based on the "big names" spokesmen i think fault comes for their leaders aswell, the day leaders wont send them to do it ,they will calm down,but unfortunately we still have leaders themselves mocking others' physique and those type of things
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