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Congolese Music / EXCELLENT INTERVIEW BY NATY LOKOLE OVER HIS CAREER
« on: June 06, 2017, 15:15 »he says he started media outside music holding various type of shows on radio,then his first major interview was with pepe kalle and he was so scared and pepe kalle understood and eased things for him and they did interview and he jokes that he was lucky that he started with late pepe rather than a guy like koffi(but he insists its just fun) who loves to humiliate journalists sometimes
he then totally settled into music for good in early 2000's when wenge conflict was explosive it was hard to get recognition as he found journalists who were already either pro jb or pro werra and it was difficult to approach both at same time but he stuck to what he learned at university and managed to get some recognition
he is asked about fally and he says he does not understand why people consider him as a journalist working for fally and wonders whether its because they hate fally or because they hate him,and he says for him outside media fally is a friend just like other artists and reminds people who think he is anti ferre that its him who recorded ferre's interview when he decided to abandon les marquis and he says people link him way too much to fally maybe because their careers reached another level at the same time so since he was helping fally in terms of promotion, like he helped also celeo,bill and co people automatically thought he is fally's puppet and he insists fally never gave him order to attack anybody to please him nor will he do it one day to please fally like the way djo k used to take jb's problems with other artists like his own
they are friends outside but business is business so he is free to interview whoever he wants and says he has absolutely no problem with interviewing ferre again but its people around who influence ferre(he says artists love to be surrounded with people who bring up stories to them to earn a living)
he says he supported that generation because he got fed up of how congolese music had become with the polemic of wenge,if you do interview with one its very hard to get opportunity to get another so he decided to promote upcoming talent even though they did not thank him in the right way
he says he is sad of how the status of journalist has changed over the years as now you just can pop up out of nowhere have a cam and start calling yourself a journalist without any background,and because of that their job has lost some dignity and sometimes he ponders retiring but he's pretty much spent all his life of an adult in it so its hard to go towards something else at that age
he also revealed that outside his job of journalist it does happen that he writes songs and he says soleil wanga's feuille de laurier is his song