lol, the way Koffi threw a shot to Papa Wemba at 0:25 min. I liked for the way they Passi and his friend Stomy Bugsy of Secteur A went to support Koffi at Bercy. If Academia were thinking like Ferre Gola, then they would leave leave Secteur A lol, since that they were also performing the same day at LSC. The gold record at 2:47 before that of Attentat, was it V12 or Droit de Veto ? I see now why Yves Lapotre and Koffi didn't pick the song African Kings. It's sounds really weak on live. Wait did CNN & Ocean became background singers for Stomy Bugsy? I see now why they came 1 month before the show in Europe
safe to say david monsoh is african p diddy?
I didn't knew that the financial problems already started in 2000. Werrason was about to sign with in 2005, but Secteur A was declared bankrupt and had to close. Really strange how rap-albums often get financial problems, while they get alot money and often scam their artists. I liked Bisso na Bisso alot. I don't understand why they didn't extend their succes by recording a second album after 2/3 years, instead of waiting 10 years. But on the other side, I hate how they robbed Extra Musica's Kora as best African group, while they are of the diaspora. Academia could have gone far, but they themselves also didn't respect Secteur A on their side. Secteur A was preparing a professional tour in France for them, also Outre Mer (Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Martin, French Guyana, etc.), festivals and wanting to plan them to do the 1st part for artists of their label, to promote Sanction well. But they didn't want to wait a prefered to sign contracts with Congolese concert-promoters and Hamed Bakayoko for concerts in Paris, Brussels, London, Kinshasa, Brazzaville, Pointe Noire, Abidjan and Ouagadougou.
Sam and co didn't want to listen to Kenzy's advice of hiring session musicians and dancers for their concerts (Djudju-chet and co). In pop-music its always the recordlabel who pay and hires them in the case if more musicians are needed. But Sam and co didn't want that, they wanted to recruit musicians and dancers in Kinshasa, like big bands were doing and promote new talents, forgetting that had to pay them with their own money. Since that the contract was just for two albums, both Academia and Secteur A went their own ways. Sam Tshintu decided to sign with Jimmy Mukelenge (who was their first manager when they just started Academia, before signing with Secteur A), but they ended up by signing with Rigo Makengo who produced their album 4 Coins Kandala. It's only when Sam Tshintu was stuck in Europe because of the ngulu-affair that he started to regret. He then tried to make a comeback with Sexy Chocolat and wanting to enter new horizons, but it wasn't a succes and not long after it Academia disbanded when Modogo and Mboshi decided to return Quartier Latin (Academia in Kinshasa was already dead because all musicians joined other bands in 2003). Years later Sam Tshintu and Modogo had an idea to record a duo-album. Then Sam met his friend Alain Mabanckou who is a known writer in France, they agreed to record an album about his book and he arranged a contract for Sam & Modogo with big recordlabel Lusafrica which has a distribution deal with Sony BMG. Sam Tshintu was really exicited because he was dreaming since 2003 about a worldmusic-career, being fed up with Kinshasa and the way he was treated in 2009. Sam, Modogo and Alain started to promote the album on French magazines, tv and radiochannels (France 24, TV5, Africa N1, etc.). They even performed at the big French retail chain FNAC when their album came out. They associated CNN, Beniko Popolipo and Do Akongo to the project. After that they performed at the mythic New Morning and started to have a tour in France, going even to Ile de Reunion, without getting attacked by combattans. But Sam Tshintu started to get mad, because all the credits went to Alain Mabanckou, them not getting invited in the media and they didn't appear on the album cover. So after a year, Sam decided to leave. Modogo then stayed alone and was joined by singer Ballou Canta who replaced Sam Tshintu and Roi David replacing CNN. The succes made Alain Mabanckou want them to record a second album, which they and made again a long tour in France, performing also at festivals in Germany and Holland. Then in 2014 they disbanded. Bouro Mpela left because he was fed up of Sam Tshintu's behaviour when they were Kinshasa and also against Modogo, Mboshi, Lebou who were doing nothing to stop him. They were living in hypocrisy, saying yes in Sam Tshintu's face, but disagree behind his back. Before going to Kinshasa they agreed about multiple stuff, but most didn't get the respected the moment they were in Kinshasa. The succes went to their head and it was worser, because in Kinshasa they started to get "ba bureau" who were putting "songi-songi". They had a concert at Intercontinental and Bouro Mpela decided to show up very late, to show Sam a point that he wasn't his boss and Sam being angry. Then when they went to Brazzaville, Sam take revenge by cutting the music, when Bouro was about to do a solo dance. Bouro was so furious that he left the music-hall and the concert not being able to continue, because they were just 3 singers. Then you had also he problem of Bouro being against Somono and Sam recruiting reserve-singers and guitarists (Pitshou Concorde, Tonton Lay, Eric Menthe and co), but him being seen as a hater by the rest of the band. Then when they arrived in Paris, the conflicts went to another level and Sam Tshintu and co already hitting that they would do a 12 on by, by recruiting soon a tenorist (I think that they recruited at that point Abilissi of Extra Musica). After performing in Lille, Bouro had enough and decided to leave, to avoid the tensions getting on another level. Wanted to take a break and think about which band to join (Nouvelle Ecriture, Wenge BCBG, Wenge Maison Mere and Quartier Latin). But his father already contacted Koffi Olomide and he was then surprised to see Koffi at their house in Antwerp drinking champagne with his father. Koffi promised him a car, some money and celebrated the death of Academia, Bouro saying nothing and just accepting the offer. He was presented at Bolistone, but only Champion, Felly, Binda Bass, Nseka, Mamale and Ridens Makosso were happy with his return. The rest (Fally and co) werent happy and gave him a cold look. Nevertheless they returned together to Kinshasa and the rest is history. Sam Tshintu on his side claimed that Bouro Mpela was corrupted by Koffi Olomide and attacked both guys very hard in the media, saying also that it was due to bad influences from other bandleaders that he left (his brother in law Papa Wemba).