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Music => Congolese Music => Topic started by: archos on June 30, 2017, 19:57
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yesterday i had inspiration to continue biograhies but this time not for those very proven stars but the upcoming stars and in my idea i had three names first deplick robinio and abraham
are any of you interested?
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i am very interested. any info you got i want it lol
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Do it
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No one deserves a bio until Le Grand Mopao gets one.
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Jdog koffi's is like wemba's or nioka longo's almost a book lol notice that i have very rarely done artists above clan wenge except karmapa and wazekwa,but i might do it one day it just takes a lottttt of time
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Ambulance, Kabuya, CafèRhoum, Lobeso, Sarah Solo, Bicorine Makaba, Pajo
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the series will start tomorrow with deplick,stay tuned
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Looking forward to this series. Pliz shade more light on Taddet De Monticules's father Elba who am aware was with Bana OK for sometime!? Is he still active musically?
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Archos, would u mind also a small Bio of The late Deo Muana Matete? Was listening to A La Une Mwalimu today and just released(my opinion) since Patcho Star, Viva la Musica had only averages drumer(Maradona y compris) but Deo gave another Énergie to Viva! And looking at that Stade Des Martyrs performance.....Wow, gone too soon
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Archos, would u mind also a small Bio of The late Deo Muana Matete? Was listening to A La Une Mwalimu today and just released(my opinion) since Patcho Star, Viva la Musica had only averages drumer(Maradona y compris) but Deo gave another Énergie to Viva! And looking at that Stade Des Martyrs performance.....Wow, gone too soon
SFR.. Le meilleur drummer de l’Afrique. He and Titina were on another level late-90’s until Deo’s tragic passing
One thing I learned early on is that the best drummers are the ones that drum with a big smile on their face
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Looking forward to this series. Pliz shade more light on Taddet De Monticules's father Elba who am aware was with Bana OK for sometime!? Is he still active musically?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3nc06MEmus
Here he is , a pretty good singer compared to dindo yogo and lolo or yanick , elba sounds way different from his son . He previously was with youlou mabiala prior going to bana okay. I have always wondered if he is from Brazzaville or Kinshasa.
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Archos, would u mind also a small Bio of The late Deo Muana Matete? Was listening to A La Une Mwalimu today and just released(my opinion) since Patcho Star, Viva la Musica had only averages drumer(Maradona y compris) but Deo gave another Énergie to Viva! And looking at that Stade Des Martyrs performance.....Wow, gone too soon
SFR.. Le meilleur drummer de l’Afrique. He and Titina were on another level late-90’s until Deo’s tragic passing
One thing I learned early on is that the best drummers are the ones that drum with a big smile on their face
Ahaha Almost true( SFR, Titia, Esthétique) but one of my fav. Drumer and pioneer of sebene always seemed angry at someone for sum reason ???????? MaryJo of Zaiko
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Yup.. i confirm.. maryjo is one of them .. that guy is good ... but does not smile though...lol
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PLICK LUANGOMBA NKOKA AKA DEPLICK POMBA
plick was born on 27th of april in 1987 in kinshasa and grew up in the area of kasavubu
his passion for music arrived around 1996 when he started following his mother who was singing in a luba protestant choir and at the same time he discovers football in the streets with classmates
coming from a very modest family he will often be sent out of class for lack of school fees which he will try to fight against starting some street jobs but he will often be bullied when he finishes working as he is so short and skinny
but situation improves for him as he starts growing,he will be sent to a boarding school by an uncle where he discovers martial arts and toughens up a bit
one year later as the uncle dies he has to return to his parents' house and will then starts singing in street groups,playing football and at the same time judo while still struggling with class
and in 2004 his football talent almost gets him into tests for national junior team but he will miss out as he is injured in a motorbike accident and will be spotted by singer tonton lay to join academia as an atalaku
in fact during his street group days plick will be singing trying to emulate his closest models fally ferre and jb mpiana and at the same time doing animation especially in his mother tongue tshiluba
he then starts in the dying academia but tonton lay himself leaves to join quartier latin so he has to go back to street groups or look for another group
he will be introduced to gentamicine lisimo to be taken to bcbg but he fears singing in front of one of his idols so he runs away to keep working in groups of kasavubu and one year and half later when koffi olomide decides to form some sort of junior band
montana is one of the guys tasked to look for young guys which could join and plick will be picked along with several other talented guys to form les mineurs du quartier latin and will be shown on tv and dvd's annoucing the birth of that group but by the time the group makes its firt official appearance at grand hotel he is gone as he falls out with montana who removes him from the final list
he then goes back home focusing this time on football in hope to turn it into his job to feed his family and will be introduced to papy kakol to be taken to maison mere in early 2007 and will be singing with kakol and a couple of other young guys kakol is preparing for maison mere tests what will become the song le representant which a song writer brings to kakol who shows it to werra(the fabregas part being added on by ibrator)
and when he gets presented to maison mere fans where he'll be renamed deplick its instant success and the song recorded becomes a hit and this will almost convince his family who is very reluctant to let him do professional music as they fear him stopping to be the strong christian they educated him to be and go into witchcraft to get quick success
with the impact of the song he sings he is included in the list for zenith as europe fans are very eager to see him and his two friends fabregas and caferoum who sang with him
few days before the trip his family advises him once in europe to look for a football academy as they believe he has higher chance to make it in football than in music or at least it sounds more safe on spiritual level
he will then go on that tour and shine and really enjoy it while still being torn between music and football and few days before return to kinshasa he is tempted to stay but the fact he received a lot of gifts in the last days and he is a bit under pressure from some fans who are aware of his idea of staying,he goes back and as a symbol builds a little "restaurant" for his mother instead of selling in streets and he receives her full blessings to continue into music but she keeps insisting to him not to even think about sacrificing somebody in the family
in 2009 2010 he really becomes an important member of the singing setup and obviously makes it for the second zenith while he also sang another song champagne
in 2012 2013 his maison mere career will be hit with a lot of controversy,starting with an open beef with heritier watanabe which reaches physical level
in fact he is attacked in front of la zamba after a rehearsal by heritier's guys and runs after one of them who slapped him and almost is hit by a car as he crosses road to follow that guy who is heading towards stade des martyrs and beats the guy
few times after the same guys threaten him and say if he attends another maison mere concert he'll be beaten hard which he replies to in a rant internet interview saying he will be there because he fears nobody in the group except werra himself
meanwhile he gets a song for the group coming album fleche ingeta(the song which will be interpreted later by ferrari) but as atmosphere becomes too hard to handle for him he decides to leave before album is released
and while he has a good offer to return to quartier latin he refuses and goes solo with plan to release an album with an ivorian producer and he first releases the song he was meant to have on fleche ingeta while he records album and moves often to ivory coast to also record there but fed up with a lot of issues with the producer who refuses to release,he goes back to kinshasa and with financial support of some donors and from jb mpiana records again the same album and even gets new customers who take album to 20 songs instead of 13
album is finally released in end of 2016 and gets a good reception but unfortunately for him it takes time to be backed up with concerts
he is currently working on a small project called bundesliga which is also the name he recently picked for his group
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He is one of the most humble guys in the music biz, I really like his music and his personality I had no idea he was a Tshiluba he hasn't a Tshiluba accent just like JB I though he was a Bakongo, can't wait to listen to his new music my playlist now is on Nzete, Nadia Pay Pay and Prisionier.
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Damn who hasn't heritier beefed with from MM jeez
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Awww...I like Deplick. I like him so much.
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i think deplick's life explains the man he has become a mature and nice guy but who also learned to show some authority when it matters
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Deplick is one of my favourite from that generation of MM. Did you notice how the two (Deplick and Cafe Roum) of them were received on stage at the Zenith concert when doing that Le Representant track. The crowd went crazy especially when Cafe Roum came on stage to do his vocal.
https://youtu.be/tPNr3292G-U
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Can someone do a biography of Bebe Kerozene?
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GUELOR MAVINGA NGOMA DENEWADE AKA MIGNON ABRAHAM
guelor was born on 1st of january in 1985 in kinshasa and is the son of denewade who was a former manager of ok jazz and choc stars he grew up away from this dad since he was not the son of his dad's wife,so he spent most of his first years living with uncles and aunts who all passed away quick and around 11 years old started singing and dancing in street groups
living in very difficult conditions he will fail in the class just before high school and since there was less ans less parental authority around him decides to go missing from school for a whole year singing in street groups and playing soccer
in 1999 2000 he is spotted by songwriter duc herode mandiangu and his group golden tchatcho who needs a new generation of musicians to replace the likes of flamme kapaya,jitrois,jordan,gesan sakoko,serge mabiala,celeo and co gone to bigger groups and will participate in an album with him but since duc herode is so much abroad most of the musicians either look for other groups to remain active or go for other jobs
guelor prefers going to brazzaville where he will shortly participate in group super ocean with the likes of eric mente and biscuit des ecoliers and in the meantime he really develop his dancing side along with friends regis toms and co and they will get some exposure at an extra musica international concert where is organized a dance competition to pick "the best dancer of brazzaville"
and they will shine,especially him who wins the competition and they will catch crowd's attention with what will be not too long after known as koyimbiko
while the other dancers join werrason he will prepare to join wenge bcbg as he is spotted in brazzaville by atalaku gentamicine lisimo he is then given money to buy clothes and ticket to go back to kinshasa where he will be leaving with gentamicine for months learning the songs and giving him dances to offer to the group
he will then be officially tested in 2002 but he does not sing well that day as he is impressed to sing next to all those guys he saw on tv's and while he had failed his test he manages to get close to jb mpiana while bodyguards are busy dealing with some fans who could not enter the already packed rehearsal hall and tells him "boss,please let me at least remain in the group as a dancer" and his determination will please jb mpiana who tells him "go and join the singers" and will task jules kibens to take him at home and make him grow as a singer and remains him abraham in reference to his first son
two years after his arrival he is one of the first of the new members to make clip appearances in generique pelisa nguasuma and gentamicine's song lekasopo for example
this period coincides with him leaving kibens' house to rent an house with his colleagues nono fudji,djino equaliser and sometimes their friend we will later know as robinio
in 2007 he participates for the first time on a wenge bcbg album,in the song francis solution and he is on the list for the first bcbg tour after europe ban as he nears cementing a first team role but will miss out the same year on american tour due an issue with his passport
in 2009 2010 while he has become a regular first team member he is victim of people around jb reporting to him that he was dating one of his sidekicks and talking bad about him to make her his official girlfriend aswell which get jb very furious leading to nearly 11 months of suspension,in which abraham will be approached by quartier latin staff but remains loyal and one day as he really is hit too hard with the suspension by also losing access to bcbg's main donors he goes to see fally ipupa to expose his situation and ask if fally can do something as jb listens to him and likes him,and fally takes him to jb's house where the issue is finally sorted as jb gets proved it was all false
so to make up for his mistake jb decides to allow abraham to add a song,being the very first of that generation to be given that chance
and still very affected by what he went through he decides to release the song code moral instead of a love song like most musicians and jb also helps him in order to get longterm belgian papers as he has two kids born in europe even before himself started regularly going there
he then becomes a strong jb favorite allowed freedom to travel to europe when he wants which creates some jealousy in the group
and in early 2013 he is offered in front of the whole group opportunity to record an album which does not get all the group applauding like earlier cases of boguys and ficarre
he will start recording album passe en or from then between kinshasa brazzaville and paris and in that period of recording he will be hit at personal level with fire in his house while he is out and luckily for him the fire does not reach the room where his children on vacation in kinshasa were living
he will have serious damage on the house and touched by the story jb offers to totally repair his house and offers him a big land plot to avoid him being badly seen in the group
in 2016 while still waiting for the group's album where he also has a song he causes some controversy in the group,as when gone to meet a donor at a karaoke bar he is followed by other bcbg singers metro and josky
and them going on stage is reported to jb as them performing a concert on their own while its just karaoke,so as they are part of the "camp" upset about how some of the chiefs behave it will be used to show authority to that camp
and abraham who foresees humiliation decides to secretly reunite some of the reserve bcbg members mixed with his own group he rehearses with like all artists to create vocals and co before presenting to group and thanks to his lucrative private truck transport business will buy a complete set of instruments and start preparing his departure from the group while releasing two songs amour pirate and boom boom boom
while he was still pretending to be with the group in hope that things calm down and he stays at least one more year a heated phone argument with seguin will seal it and the week after he hands to the group a letter to announce not to count on him as a bcbg member until his album is out meanwhile he starts making public rehearsals with his new group 10 eme bataillon
and in july 2017 he releases generique remontada to mark his newly signed contract with david monsoh's obouo music after declining a koffi central offer
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just noticed abraham did some parts of his clip in one of the place he grew up at
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Gabriel Junior AKELEMBI MONGALA aka robinio mundibu
gabriel was born in 1983 in mbuji mayi from a congolese father and belgian mother,he grew up there until early 90's where he returns to kinshasa and lives between lemba and matete
his passion for music will start at home with his late father who was in congolese army being a huge fan of ok jazz and groups of that era so unlike most guys of his age he listens to "music of older people" instead of groups like wenge
and luckily for him he remembers lyrics quite easily and he will start trying to sing them on his own with a guitar roger ngandu who was one of their neighboors offered him but he will be stripped of it when his dad notices it
in the late 90's he will often move to matete on holidays with other members of his family and will start rehearsing in some groups and develop now the desire to follow wenge footsteps
and from then he will become friends with the likes of fabrice mbuyulu aka fabregas,"ibrator" mbuzi and co
in 2001 he will start professional career in music with guitarist and songwriter do akongo along with the likes of nono fudji,jules "eboa lotin",julien boseko aka equaliseur,ibrator mbuzi,guelor "atshuda"...and like most of them will develop some writing skills next to their leader
but like most of them,he'll want more exposure given how their leader instead of really establishing his group keeps selling his best songs to other artists
so he returns to groups of matete and lemba to develop his art again but will have a throat problem which will affect his voice,having him to stop doing tenor role
he will be taken around 2005 by roger ngandu to join wenge bcbg but he has his mind set on wenge maison mere were he finds the style more suitable to his new philosophy he learned in the street groups
nevertheless few months later he'll get closer to tutu caludji via the song guantanamo which he rehearses at home with tutu and atshuda
and in 2007 when tutu caludji leaves wenge bcbg he is called upon along with his friend to form the band,and there will come what will become his official musical nickname
robinho(which he will mispell robinio) coming from tutu who was a big fan of football and nicknamed him like that as to say "the next star"
he will last two years in the group and loses patience when tutu settles in europe for a long time,he will then head to maison mere test with support of papy kakol and will impress werrason who will nickname him "mundibu"(its a word used in lingala to alluded to arab people,due to how he looked)
but unlike his friend fabrice,he will take much more time to be valued as a member of the group and will have two vocals in the group's album malewa suite et fin two years later
he struggles to go higher up the hierarchy of singers in concerts but will take time to learn a lot and in 2013 as he sees he still is too overlooked decides to try his luck as a solo artist and will release a powerful generique mbonzi mbonzi where he shows a werrason lookalike handing him a diploma as to say he's learned his lessons well and graduated aswell as a rumba vantard
both get a decent reception but he is not yet taken seriously he plans to release album "tout est bien" (all is good) in various chapters like some movies but seeing that people still did not really really know him let alone take him seriously he changed his mind and started dropping singles
starting two generiques ye yo ok and etirette which will bring him a bigger success than previous one but still does not really establish him as a promising artist let alone a star,he will get approached in that period by fally ipupa to join his label along with his fabregas,but he declines as people around him tell him it will make him look like a weak artist if he is produced by another artist(while fabregas and fally fallout leading to creation of label wanted records and fally saying on tv's he had two young guys he wanted to push but one is an hypocrite so he feels like put project on hold)
in 2016 he gets closer again to fally ipupa but still does not sign a contract for f victeam but will finally get the opportunity to get the long awaited recognition with his two generiques 4 lettres and tsha nanu boye
its a thunderous and unexpected sucess,robinio's generiques become the most popular in kin's bars and among the rare congolese songs to make it in nightclubs who are now playing far more foreign music than congolese one
he gets a koffi central offer but also declines and prefers working with his own money and donors/friends unfortunately he loses his father who had been suffering heart condition for decades
and that death will be followed with a lot of polemic with people pulling theories like he sacrificed his father to become even bigger than what he is starting to be,he has been influenced by his new "mentor" fally ipupa to sacrifice his dad like himself fally did according to those people
very affected by this,he somehow disappears from media and even one day ponders retiring from music and moving to belgium with his mother but he is boosted by his musicians to keep going
and on the musical field,success means people now pay more attention to his music and like all stars there will be a of the fans who will try to find something negative in order to "belittle" his sucess
in his case,he will be labelled like a guy who owes his career to generiques,some people sarcastically even naming him "wazekwa number 2"
and this will give him motivation to start working on a proper album with many rumbas and also generiques to prove he can do both very well
he will name his album "noir et blanc"(black and white) alluding to his origins and his hidden talent people are yet to discover
he was meant to start studio sessions for rumbas in june of 2017 in paris where he was meant to be fally's guest but since the concert was cancelled went to get his visa cancelled
but he plans to record in europe in the future months because for him most of the classic albums were done in europe studios so he wants to taste it aswell and hopefully his album being a new classic
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His father was Colonel "Full" Akelembi(RIP), right? He was a very influential fan and a close friend of King Kester (RIP)
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Yeah indeed he is the son of colonel full
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Thanks for the bio
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Is there a dally biography anywhere on this site ?
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Is there a dally biography anywhere on this site ?
you mean fally?
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Is there a dally biography anywhere on this site ?
you mean fally?
I think he meant Dally Kimoko the guitarist
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NELSON NONO FUDJI KIKARA AKA NONO FUDJI R9
Nono was born in 1978 in kinshasa but started music when sent to boarding school outside of kinshasa.In fact his real first contact with music will be at boarding school in moanda along with the likes of fally ipupa,marc iseboya and co in 1991
one year later he'll move to study in his region of bandundu for another two years then when he returns to kinshasa he starts singing at church and later in street groups of matete like the group rue de son where he will be singing first like his role model reddy amisi while trying to emulate stage "leadership" of jb mpiana
in this group he'll become strong friend with jules aka eboa lotin and some other guys who did not have opportunity to make it a higher level
in 1997 he'll make a step closer to professional music while he is about to start university as he is picked to sing along with then europe based felix wazekwa for his first concert in kinshasa but his parents will be against him become a full time musician threatening to kick him out of home so he'll restart his last high school year as he failed on purpose to show his choice was made and start university
In 2000 guitarist and songwriter do akongo leaves quartier latin and decides to form a band and nono will be one of the guys picked along with his friend "eboa",ibrator and many other guys who later made it at higher level and will learn to play guitar and write a bit,he will for example be the guy who writes over half of singer soleil wanga's vocals in quartier latin with that particular style which they will have created from a mix of several singers
in 2002 he will sing on a couple of songs of a project by do akongo over the political negotiations of the country for presidence and vice presidence roles and there he catchs eye of two of do akongo's song customers koffi olomide and werrason who will try to recruit him and he is even taken to a la zamba test but he has his heart set on another move in fact he wants to join the rivals of bcbg and sing alongside his second role model and he will be taken for tests by a friend who was a member of the bcbg fan club of matete,but he will be so impressed when he enters the rehearsal hall and sees jb that he'll feell uncomfortable and want to throw up and will be denied access to toilet by bodyguards who think he'll go there to curse people so that his test his succesful so he leaves and come back few minutes after and impresses jb so much that the other guys meant to be tested after him are not even tested
but "unfortunately" for him his leader jb preferring to present his new musicians when he thinks they are starting to be polished his friend eboa will be presented earlier by the rivals of maison mere which will lead to a friendly beef between them about who copied each other's style while both knew they were working on it together way before joining big groups
5 years later he will reach the number of years jb liked to have with young new musicians before making them potential first team members and starting to make more and more appearances and will participate on album kipe ya yo and quel est ton probleme which boosts his popularity abroad and he is so requested by fans that he makes the list for bcbg's official return to europe after the 5 years of ban
two years later he gets the opportunity to release his first song ever mombamba in album soyons serieux which gets a really good reception and in the meantime nono cements his position of a first team singer and he will get another approach from quartier latin which he declines politely and in 2013 he becomes a truely important member of the group as he is given responsability along with gentamicine to help new members settle and teach them the songs
and he gets another opportunity to add a song in the yet to be released album balle de match
at personal level he tries to convince his parents to stop selling food in streets and being a cleaner at one of kin's universities but they refuse so he offers his house he could buy with the money he got from tours to them
in 2015 during a group reunion he'll be offered opportunity to release a solo album but he declines explaining that even though he has songs he needs to cement his reputation more with at very least two three songs interpreted by him becoming hits before even thinking about a project of several songs
at the same time he will be victim of a guy who was meant to sell him a big land plot for around 30K dollars and who runned away with that money and will be offered support by his leader with 10k to pay to add to 5 of his own to pay the first part of a similar land plot and will be given opportunity to be probably the first guy of his generation to lead 4 songs on a group album,the song of seguin,his own,the songs of jeremie kitubu and patou solo
in 2016 2017 he will become so important to the group that some members suggest him as a potential chef d'orchestre should jb strip seguin of that role and is offered possibility to go to europe and do some legal things to get europe papers easily but declines fearing it will cause jealousy in the group like in the case of his best friend abraham
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Big reasoning in Nono Fudgi remind me of caltura oays vie chief of the orchestre yesu.
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NF is a calm,hide from fame kind of guy. After Abraham left he does not hoard the mike.
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SERGE KEZIPAME OMOTI AKA DJINO EQUALIZER KAPOREDJI
Serge was born in 1978 in lubumbashi and grew up in kinshasa in the area of lemba where he started music at church at 8
around 14 years he will start combining soccer martial arts and music in his spare times,starting to work in street groups of his area with a makeshift guitar to learn his trade
then in 1993 he'll be invited by his classmate fally ipupa to join new city which then had the likes of sankara,blaise element,flamme kapaya,chikito...so he rehearses with them a couple of times but he is sent to boarding school in lubumbashi straight after those holidays
there he'll start having some success in the school groups singing songs of his two role models papa wemba and jb mpiana
in 1998 he'll return to kinshasa as he graduates from high school but still is not obsessed with becoming a professional musician so he starts going to university while still doing some music for fun and he will be taken by late songwriter colombani wasenga to sing songs he'd sell to the professional artists
in early 2002 as he is in his final year of licence he will be spotted by gentamicine lisimo who takes him at home for a while to prepare him for tests and especially introduce him to those who were then closer to leader jb
and he will then introduce him to tutu caludji who was then the group's second most influent member and who will ease things for him to join wenge bcbg
his first steps in the group are not too easy as he is quite new to the environment of high level groups so he is very laid back while in congolese music opportunities arrive more easily for those who have some "character"
he'll then learn songs along with his friends abraham fudji and co and learn with the help of kisindjor to "act like a musician" and become more confident
in 2005 one factor will help him gain more esteem from jb as jb discovers he is actually the son of one of his(older) friends so he starts becoming a favourite of the chiefs caludji,seguin,jdl and making more and more appearances
in 2007 he will be used by seguin and jdl to unsettle caludji as they know he looks up to him in terms of "character"(tutu then being the perfect stereotype of congolese musician "attitude with cars,fancy clothes,big confidence...) and they convince he'd be a brilliant caludji replacement
so on two occasion he is sent to take by force caludji's microphone and sing in front of him which he does,once ending in a heated argument
at the end of the same year djino make his second participation on a bcbg cd having three vocals,the first in zadio which was very well received and made him become popular,the second in claude itoma and the third in the song exces d'amour which he "stole" from colombani wasenga to get genta in his pocket
he is then obviously on the list for the return of bcbg in europe after serving the ban and gets a great reception there and becomes father
boosted by this success he starts developping the stereotypes of a congolese musician becoming then the only bcbg musician who goes on tv to brag about his car and hit back at the likes of heritier and co of maison mere while most of the other are more of a low profile,media shy
and in 2009 when jb announces another group album will be recorded instead of his solo album djino expects to be one of the first to be given a song as a reward for him "fighting for bcbg's image through that lifestyle boasting" and he will end up sulking for weeks as he hears the first member of their generation to get a song is abraham who just returns from 11 months of suspension but he ends up getting his song as jb allows more than ten members
in 2010 while on europe tour with bcbg he will approach producer david monsoh to tell him he'd be interested to work with him one day as he feels he has become THE star of bcbg
on stage he starts becoming more and more confident even starting at times to act like a leader and tell older members to stop their impro and sing like it is on cd or to restart their vocal for fans which they do not appreciate
he'll offer them golden opportunities by continuing to act like a chef who just does not have an official roles,bullying new members like metro for example and will totally lose support of the "old guard" of bcbg when he dates a seguin sidekick and from then seguin starts betraying him to jb that he has some pre records and plans to record his album in europe should the group go on tour but jb first plays mind games waiting to see how far djino will get
in 2012 things will completely go hardcore as several donors report to jb that in private djino tells them that he is the guy who handed bcbg the europe tour because of his vocal in zadio followed with seguin bringing reports that him and rio were seen at didi kinuani house getting money and the nail in the coffin will be djino openly breaching the group rules of smoking weed in public at a professional context which gets jb absolutely furious and he decides that instead of suspending djino and letting him return to first team he'll let him perform with the group but he does not want to see him anywhere near podium once he has made his entrance
djino who feels humiliated to sing with people he sees as far inferior to him decides to leave and with financial support from koffi,among others,starts to seriously record his album while starting to diss jb and belittling his ex colleagues(koffi's support followed by his attacks towards jb will be one of the starting points of the 3rd jb-koffi conflict)
while he still gets some support from some bcbg donors he goes on tv to start intense praise of didi kinuani which gets jb absolutely mad and orders donors to stop giving him money and informs kin's representatives of europe's authorities that if a musician called djino comes to apply for a visa in the name of bcbg they should know that he is no longer a member so they should treat him like a random congolese citizen but since djino applies just with his passport and no letter from his group(one of the cases which eases visas) and no clear idea of what he will go to do in europe as an artists he gets his visas rejected
suspecting jb to be behind his failure,he goes even harder on attacks gaining support from koffi's fans as the conflicts rises
in the meantimes he releases his album commandant de bord under david monsoh's obouo music label but he will face two factors which will strong go against him
in fact,despite recording a good album overall,he gets no support from bcbg fans obviously as he adds insult to injury by singing in his albums two songs which were destined to bcbg albums mposo and lituka,sees koffi fans much much much more interested in release of koffi's 13 eme apotre and sees monsoh signing heritier watanabe in which he has much more hope
he releases some clips which get some fans acknowledging his good job but does not get the huge success he expected and seeing in 2016 that in the first two years of their collaboration david monsoh has not done enough for him he decides to write a letter to end his contract and possibly join koffi central
and at the same time people around him and some bcbg donors who talked to him in private advised him to go on tv and apologize to jb in hope to turn things around for his career and get money from bcbg's donors back which he openly admits in interview,with presenters then telling him that his apology is not honest if driven by target of money
on media field,he loses his spokesman francis dibaya to heritier watanabe on a gentleman agreement with heritier but after hearing comments from francis once fully settled on heritier's side and with his desire to pretend he is up there with the very best of that generation he decides to go at all costs to europe to prove a point to francis who labelled him a local and deluded guy
he releases a generique which he does not even promote properly and decides to sell a lot of his stuff to fund trip to europe via greece and turkey since he is struggleing to get visa for france and he will post video of him in turkey
his move will split opinion,some mocking him for having to go through such a risky way just to dare somebody who is way ahead of him(heritier) some saying its part of a man's life to something go through such things and end up having a brighter future
unfortunately,a drama happens in the seas leaving so much people dead and at first people think he is among the victims,taking some days to be cleared out and confirmed he is alive
then few times later people see some videos of him singing and playing guitar in front of european people
and apparently he just returned home after seemingly failing to prove he can go to europe like fellow young leaders which are "taken seriously"
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Djino is Lacoste's brother and coursemate in the university of delusion.... Lol
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Djino is a clear case of failing to manage a little fame.
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Djino really fucked up his career by dissing jb so constantly
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anybody interested in mini bios of marchouse and patou solo?
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Yes very interested, mostly for Marchouse
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@archos
Could you do a bio on Roga Roga some time?
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anybody interested in mini bios of marchouse and patou solo?
Aaaah Patou Solo
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anybody interested in mini bios of marchouse and patou solo?
Really interested in Marchouse's (Kim Jong Un: Keeps changing nicknames like his patron ;D) bio. Bring it on Papa.
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I'm really interested in Marcahouse biography. The time he spent in Reddy's band, Maison Mere's reserve band and when he helped Reddy back in 1999 when he came in Kinshasa to promote Etoile.
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FREDDY MAKOLA LINAKASI AKA MARCHOUSE DAMBA KIMJONG
Freddy was born in kisangani in 1978 but grew up in kinshasa in the area of kasavubu,where he was following even before turning 10 one of his brothers who was in street groups
but at that time he still was not seeing himself becoming a musician,but by the early 90's he will start to follow guitartist polystar tshimanga later known as coreen kinsansina in the group promise musica,which has the likes of tutu caludji,alino biongo "vimba",mboshi bola,alpatshino,pathy bass,tosha bass and many others who will make it in big groups later
and he starts developping strong attraction for guitar as he is trained in private by polystar and he will end up joining the group officially when some are already gone to big groups like quartier latin,wenge4X4,big stars...and will continue to go to class but since he starts to feel strong attraction towards music he will convince his parents to go to institute of arts,first starting with years of indoor designer and pottery and wil later by the end of 90's study music a bit and starts doing session work with various artists including reddy amisi who he will join later
but his first try in a top group will be in maison mere,in 2000,where he will find a lot of guitarists fighting for mi solo and rhythm roles
since his chance is not coming as fast as he expects he starts pondering to join other groups where he might get a bigger opportunity despite heritier trying his best to convince him to remain patient,and the arrival of his mentor polystar in maison mere from anti choc will make indirectly make him decide to leave and he first tries to contact caludji and gentamicine to join wenge bcbg which was his favorite destination before being taken to maison mere but they will explain to him that there is already alba who has strongly cemented his position with his konono style plus zygal and some other who succeeded in tests but do not even play a second in rehearsals let alone concerts and he meets one friend of reddy who tells him reddy is forming a band and he should come to join and gives him adress and money to come there
and he will be along with the likes of blaise createur,guy bayaya,doudou amiral(rip),guy laroche and co recruited in the newly born casa do canto and will shine in reddy's first album compteur a zero especially in the song assistance sociale
and at that moment will adopt the nickname of marchouse americano,he will become also artistic director of the group along with guy bayaya
but he will not be satisfied with the fact the group does not tour abroad a lot despite reddy being well known,while heritier tries to convince him to rejoin maison mere and play mi-solo which is kind of free with the unstable nature of japonais and mbokaliya but he hesitates as he still holds bad memories of those weeks of standing under the hard sun barely getting the chance to play a song at rehearsal,being humiliated by bodyguards...
in 2004 he will visit jb mpiana at a concert and gets a lot of money from jb himself and bcbg donors and will whisper to caludji's hear he'd really love to join since la casa is starting to perform less and reddy is super stingy with them
one week after he will come to bcbg rehearsal instead of la casa rehearsal and jb explains to him that he cant risk ruining relationship with reddy so he should go back to reddy and surely the group become bigger like he wishes or maybe in the future he might get the possibility to play in bcbg but not under such circumstances
and he goes back to reddy rehearsal and reddy in his typical hot temper style openly rips into him in front of the whole group and suspends him indefinitely but thanks to intervention of some reddy friends he will rejoin the group weeks after and he will meet ferre at a tv station and ferre tells him he really likes how he plays and to be ready because one day they might collaborate
in the meantime ferre goes to europe with maison mere and stays there,while him marchouse is often in contact with zobozi who in the long run will become the spokesman for les marquis as ferre leaves with jdt and bill clinton,and thanks to zobozi he learns "how to do polemic" as he is so desperate to really earn himself a name and he sees that 90 per cent of the promise musica guys have been going to europe and around the world already with big groups
he remains with reddy and participates to recording of ligne droite released in 2005 but will remained close to zobozi who informs him of evolution of things related to ferre and les marquis and will end up leaving la casa do canto as he is fed up and has strong hope of joining ferre and finally putting his career on the right track according to him
and when ferre arrives in kin,he will meet him again while he is on tv announcing he has left la casa do canto and willing to join any group,starting to show some signs of his new attitude people will discover later,and ferre tells him to call him
ferre ends up joining quartier latin but they remain in contact via zobozi,and ferre leaves to really form his band now he comes for tests and outshines most of the rhythm guitarists who applied and from then will cement his position as a rhythm guitarist but since other members of la casa like blaise createur,guy bayaya and few others came to join reddy calls ferre so that they return but marchouse says he'd rather sell in streets than go back in a group where he'll only gets calls from kinshasa and bandundu province while he sees his friends changeing cars for fun,receiving calls and gifts from europe and america
and encouraged by those europe calls and gifts he starts to get,he will start to appear more on more on tv interviews and in 2007 it reaches a new level when he is often beefing on tv with the likes of equaliseur,ronsard kanza and co on fally ipupa's side
in 2008 when he comes to europe he will involved in a "fight" against fally's musicians and really starts to talk like zobozi
he will become also artistic director of ferre's group and a pivotal member of the group both for his guitar skills but also his ever growing taste for polemic
he will play in every ferre project starting from lubukulukumu which is issues to introduce the group before ferre's first album with his group(having done the first one with europe based musicians)
in 2012/2013 when beef between ferre and maison mere guys starts to get more intense,he will be at the forefront to face sankara and as a maison mere donor is ready to invest money to lure most of maison mere's major musicians to teach him a lesson marchouse is approached with offer of money plus a car,and when he alerts ferre a ferre donor straight away calls him to take him to a port and tell him to pick the car he wants
and his boasting level improves even more and he become a real internet attraction for fans who love polemic and maison mere tries to undermine his work as a guitarist insisting that olivier tshimanga plays instead of him in studio
few years later,he has strongly cemented his name but causes controversy,a lot of people love him for his polemic "skills" and guitar,a lot hate him to death and belittle his artistic skills
and he will end up being arrested at some point following a complaint by fally ipupa and 4 days after he is out but while many would expect him to apologize and calm down,he becomes even more vocal,ready to defend ferre at all costs against anybody
when ferre will decide in 2016 to record an album having for the first time songs from group members he will offered possibility to add a song fautif and he promotes the song heavily before release and he will decline offer to join quartier latin and attack ferre as ferre and koffi have fallen out and goes hard on koffi on interviews
and to people's surprise clip of his song is not released for ages despite him hyping it up,and it ends up being released on 17th of may in 2019
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You learn daily so Japonais and Mboka liya are so unreliable when it comes to rehearsals
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ba moyi ya kin hahahaha
I remember that after Ferre's first tour in Europe, Marcahouse went with his new car towards place Reddy used in Bandal to rehearse prove Reddy a point. He angry that Reddy said in an interview to Ferre to not take Marcahouse to Europe, because he would be the first musician to run away. He was throwing little shots to Reddy in all interviews he made in during the tour in Europe, he also denied that he used to be a member of Reddy's band in of those interviews.
Where's Guy Bayaya now ? He was an excellent solist, far better than Charly Solo and Christian. I liked his sebenes in the Compteur a Zero-album. He would have been far if he stayed in Ferre's band. Reddy indirectly killed Guy's career by calling Ferre to take him back. It was a good choice from Blaise Createur to join Didier Lacoste some months later. Its seems that Reddy was a big tiran. I've never heard a good word from former musicians of his band Casa Do Canta. Its so sad that he never took the advantage to really promote his band. All his instrumentalists were aliens he had one of best drummer, bassist, rhythm-player and solists of Kinshasa. Maybe he knew that his bad behaviour would let run all his musicians away in Europe.
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PATOU LOMBOTO AKA PATOU SOLO SHEVCHENKO
patou was born in 1982 in kinshasa and grew up in a very religious family praying at a church called BIMA,and will be around 12 learning to play on makeshift guitars after hearing older brothers from his area play partitions of alain makaba,beniko popolipo...
But his dad will often break his makeshift guitars fearing that he loses focus in class as people already sense in him talent despite bad quality of his guitars
around 16 he will be like most of young guys of his age playing football and is even spotted by scouts of good teams of DRC but his parents absolutely want him to go far in school and end up having a more respectable job than music
but as a compromise he starts playing guitar at church while focusing on class
in 2000 when he graduates from high school he'll ask to go to INA and learn music more professionally which he convinces his dad to with a lot of difficulty and he tells his dad he will study something else later
and in INA he will meet a lot of talents like freddy makola"marchouse",olivier tshimanga,candy nkunku" cindy"...and he starts feeling he needs to join a group which is touring around the world and starts asking around himself if some people know guys in big groups so that they can introduce him and most are reluctant to help him out because of his father
and he will decide on his own to go to tests in big groups and goes to maison mere for tests but he is beaten by bodyguards and returns home lying that he was injured while playing football
one week later he goes to wenge bcbg but there also he is denied access but luckily for him on his way back he will meet genta lisimo,who will tell him he'll do his best to set a test for him and gives him 100 dollars so that he goes back home
he will then learn in private with genta all the bcbg songs and when he arrives for test when the group is days away from bercy him and genta will act like they do not known each other to avoid suspicion of him corrupting for test, and when asked if he can play a song of bcbg he says i can play every jb mpiana and later bcbg related song from mulolo to th which surprises people
and he will pass wonderfully every trick the bcbg instrumentists pull on him switching from a song to another without telling him but he adapted and was recruited
but he had to face 19 soloists who were also recruited,some like ficarre and pathy moleso being first team some being reserve,some who have never even played at a bcbg rehearsal but who come with hope to get a chance one day
and as the group goes to bercy,genta gives him some money again so that he can buy some clothes for future concerts when they return and he will announce to his father that he has joined bcbg and his father gives him blessings seeing how determined he is and to encourage him he buys him a guitar but he also asks him to keep studying because its important to have a plan b and he will going to night class sessions for years and get a university diploma
in 2002 he will start being a lot with genta when he decides to start his hyper long private rehearsals( 13 hours everyday)alongside his understudies fiston genie later known as lobeso,equaliseur,roi david,identité...
and he will started getting a bit of a look by the end of that year,but he gets bantered a lot in the group for his look,never a crazy haircut,no earrings no tatoo,rarely wearing jeans,shirts always tied up to the first button..
In 2003 he will make some nice appearances and will shine in a fikin show as jb came on his own while is one of the first times jb really notices him
in 2004 while the group is gone to south africa to record anti terro he is left behind, but partly due to genta's insistance to jb's ears and jb himself feeling another touch would not be too bad given the higher number of songs decides to get him a visa to south africa and comes himself to welcome him at airport
he will end up playing the last two minutes of generique,rhythm guitar on plainte a and another song aswell as bass on a song
One year later while the group plans third primus second primus generique of its history,jb plans to let the bigger names ficarre,mbokaliya or pathy molesso play it but genta will suggest a generique he prepared in private with patou and his private atalakus who are in hope of a chance,but its stalling due to the important crop which is already in the group
and tutu caludji who already heard that generique will fully support it and patou ends up getting the chance to play generique which will be named bongolowayi,with only two changes,the "crazy" start of the generique and the animation kipala nzonzako added in studio during recording by levieux mavuzi,younger brother of mosaka and provider of various groups until today
and the result is impressive and fans from around the world start trying to know who is that patou solo guy mentioned in the generique and he start getting calls and gifts
his career will take a massive step ahead the year after when he comes with the partitions like pesa mbote,lopele...and during one concert jb calls him and says( 6 years in the group,he was not getting a proper look but kept quiet and working hard and came in with pesa mbote and lopele partitions) that part will mark the debut of him really cementing his position in the group
but unfortunately for him he does not get visa to UK tour due to embassy giving priority to those who have a lot of visas already in their passports so maitre ficarre ends up playing in generique kipe ya yo,but he plays lead in the songs done in kinshasa,voiture of jules kibens,francis solution,and reworks sans permission originally done by mbokaliya
in 2008 when the group's europe ban is officially over he is on the list as the other soloist maitre ficarre is under a bit of an embargo for having tried to run away to stay with a sidekick and he gets a great reception from fans and in the meantime he had played the whole quel est ton probleme except liberez played by ficarre and he will obviously be in the american tour after quel est ton probleme along with ficarre who is banned in europe only
later on when the group is working on another album soyons serieux, he will again get a lots of songs to play,with ficarre only playing my love,mbua,djikidjiki and his own song
during a group reunion before rehearsal he gets a very cold welcome by jb who says he is suspended and he wont rehearse,and seconds after says you know why you are suspended? patou says no while looking down and jb says because your behavior is too perfect and the whole group explodes in laughter and jb gives him the 1000 dollars he had in a pocket and gives him advice to continue like that and he will go very far in his career
in 2013 when camps are starting to clash in the group over treatment of minor musicans he is on the side defending minor members and the other camp will try to influence him getting in trouble with false stories but genta ficarre and sundabass stand for him and he is on the list for the group's zenith which will fail last minute and gets his first song sim blanche in album balle de match which was then a 11 songs project
as the concert fails,jb hands passports to everybody and tells them whoever wants to go to europe can go and all the group will prefer to stay as solidarity to their leader,but patou will ask permission few days later to go to europe as he plans to marry an ivorian europe based woman he fell in love with during tours and from then he remains in europe and gets married
until today he has never announced he has left wenge bcbg
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as far as i know guy bayaya went to angola with lacoste later as second soloist behind hadji and remained there
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as far as i know guy bayaya went to angola with lacoste later as second soloist behind hadji and remained there
Looks like Luanda is the second cimetiere ya ba musicien.
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@archos
Great biography, ndeko! Masion Mere literally are the worst behaved staff kiekiekie, why did they beat up Patou Solo?
I know Pathy Molesso played Esau and Somewhere on Anti-Terror, anyone knows what songs Zygal played rhythm guitar on? He is the least spoken about guitarist in Wenge BCBG.
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@archos
Great biography, ndeko! Masion Mere literally are the worst behaved staff kiekiekie, why did they beat up Patou Solo?
I know Pathy Molesso played Esau and Somewhere on Anti-Terror, anyone knows what songs Zygal played rhythm guitar on? He is the least spoken about guitarist in Wenge BCBG.
lol back in the days many of the bodyguards of several groups,not just maison mere used to scare people who came for tests especially if you came on your own you'd be in trouble unless they are on nice mood that day,and even back then in the two wenges, even when you succeeded at test you were not "safe" from being slapped out of nowhere in front of rehearsal hall and things like that,they considered it as "baptism" so that you toughen up
zygal started playing in francis solution then cemented position from quel est ton probleme and played every of the released song until now except je ne te calcule pas or on some songs with ficarre playing lead like mbua,patou took rhythm
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Thanks for the infor @Archos.
So Reddy is also super stingy. Eish, seems almost all leaders are like that. Lol... I remember an interview were a certain internet journalist (i think it is Nadege) when she jokingly told Marchouse that why have you changed so much in terms of polemic when you were with Reddy you never used to talk much later on attacking others leaders. And Marchouse in answer said "how did you expect me to be very aggressive when there was no motivation, no car, no poto (europe) trips, kuna ata kutu brazaville ya pamba ezali te".
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Zygal didn't play telecommandegenerique. It was the guy who went to Herieter
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Zygal didn't play telecommandegenerique. It was the guy who went to Herieter
yeah padache,but they redid the generique in europe,with patou playing that partition on lead and zygal doing rhythm
its one of the reasons why he tried joining almost every big group because he was disappointed the original telecommande generique sounded way better than the one done in france
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PATRICK MUKEBA KABANGU AKA IBRATOR
patrick was born in 1980 in kinshasa and grew up in the area of matete and starts singing at age of 4 already as he impresses older people with his ability to sing most of the songs of that era after just a couple of listening
then when a bit older he will follow his mother who sings at church and by the age of 10 will start singing himself in church
also like most young people he will be into sports trying several martial arts before having a preference for judo which he will do for years
in 1995 he is kicked out of class for disturbing class with his singing of koffi olomide,madilu,wenge musica and co songs which catch more attention at time that teacher's lessons and he will be sent to boarding school outside kinshasa by his parents
once there it will not calm down at all,in fact he will join the school's musical group while still being a quite good student
two years after there will a turning point which surely starts to make him think about having a professional career in music as he shines in boarding school singing songs of his role models jb mpiana,pepe kalle,papa wemba...and especially is the only one of the boarding school who can sing manda chante's high notes in the new hit ibrahim
so after lessons,students of all classes would gather around him for him to sing ibrahim and various other songs and start calling him ibrahim actually
and when he is back in kinshasa as he nears high school end he starts class in kinshasa again as his parents are encouraged by the fact he had no "discipline" issues at boarding school and he happens to be there when the newly born wenge musica 4X4 soon to be maison mere shoots clip of kalayi boeing remix and impresses werrason who tries to know if he can ask for permission to his parents to take him in the band but by the time they finish he runs away as his friends and older people who were around warn him and tell him stories that in music there is big witchcraft
he graduates and goes to university to study interior design which is convincing for his parents and secretly goes to start learning music at INA by selling some of his shoes to fund it behind his parents back
in 2000 guitarist do akongo leaves quartier latin and spots him singing and takes him under his wing and senses in him ability to write and coaches him on how to develop it
and he soon be followed by other young guys from matete like nono fudji,jules lelo aka eboa and will bring to the group gabriel akelembi we will later know as robinio mundibu who is then a comedian doing the role of an old village man in the group of late comedian mundueri
and outside the group he will participate in nono fudji's "workshops" along with mignon abraham,atshuda,yasser and also sometimes the young brother of their friend christian mbuyulu,fabrice who he takes under his wings to teach him own to sing on tune and he will also become close to wenge bcbg singers rio who he gives some vocals to and writes his first ever song fleur d'amour
and after double zenith of wenge maison mere he is introduced by a common friend to heritier watanabe who he had already seen in his wenge bcbg days at a concert in their high school and from then will start working with him and will drag with him the remaining members and new members of his worskhop to work with heritier
he will then give some vocals to heritier for temoignage but will decline joining maison mere as he remembers witchcraft stories and in the meantime also works with jean goubald who will take him to koffi olomide who he'll refuse to join for same reason(but will give songs and vocals from monde arabe until abracadabra)
when he graduates from INA and from university he will work at both as an assistant to teachers while he tries to find a full time job
in 2006 he will bring a pack of 14 songs to heritier (abeti faux,confessions intimes,par amour...) and he will start giving vocals for musicians who heritier wants to help settle in maison mere (miel,olivier...) and will be seen once in a home tv interview which starts rumours of heritier preparing a group at home to leave maison mere
and he will be painting and making pottery as he learned at arts school to earn some money as he waits from an official offer for a job,still not considering music as his future job
in 2009 2010 when he is working in private with heritier fabregas will beg him to start coming to rehearse with him also permanently
in 2011 on a phonecall demand of fabregas he gathers the guys(adada,thierry mugler,yasser,but na filet and co) to record their songs for him to release an album and he will be the one funding promotion when first album is released before fabregas arrives
when fabregas arrives he wants to transform the workshop group into his group where he is the leader and they will accept especially him ibrator who is convinced by heritier to help out their little brother fabregas
when time arrives to structure the group,patrick who has been renamed ibrator by rio de janeiro prefers letting yasser be the chef of the group but yasser quickly leaves as he does not like some of fabregas attitude coming with his role of president and cant accept a younger brother he used to take by the hand to take him to school disrespecting him in front of people
ibrator then takes naturally that role being a natural leader among that crop already and he will shine in various albums of fabregas and even get a song limousine
but in 2016 when musicians complain about leader not paying for over half a year after having started doing it on camera for his image previously he first uses his own money he gets from donors to calm them down and warns fabregas who says they'll get used because congolese music is like that
few months after musicians are furious as promises are not fulfilled and during a private reunion without the leader they tell ibrator and fabregas' younger brother yves who is the secretary of the group to tell fabregas they could go on strike if it does not change and yves report to fabregas that ibrator is brainwashing musicians to leave and form rebel group because he is big headed with the succes of his song
and during on the way to next concert of their angola tour ,fabregas angrily tells his bodyguard to throw ibrator out of the range rover producer put at his disposition with his chef d'orchestre in heavy rain
and when he still manages to arrive at concert he sings a song when fabregas is taking a break to chat with donors then fabregas steps on stage takes his microphone by force and makes a new member sing ibrator's song limousine to humiliate him and he does not sing a single second until end of concert
after concert musicians go to see him to say they are with him and fabregas and are ready to leave with him since he is good to them and helps them more than the leader himself
and at last minute 7 musicians are motivated to leave taboch,adada,mugler,but na filet,materazzi,christian solo and himself ibrator who becomes convince from the moment he is given undetermined suspension one day before return and as reports of rebel group reach fabregas he will spend the night before trip back home promising them all sorts of appealing things like houses,houses rents in most modern areas of kin,cars and so on...and he convinces mugler and but na filet to be on plane for return as they also see in it a golden opportunity to claim chef d'orchestre role
taboch,adada and mbonzo who had stayed in angola rush to him to comfort him and motivate him to form a band together and at the same time there are rumours that a musician who falled out with fabregas(koffi) is behind that
and when they arrive in kinshasa to confirm they have formed the band les contremaitre it will fuel even more that rumour when people hear they will be produced by koffi central while in reality its adada who sold songs to koffi who asks for his help since they have to release an album and he has a label
and as a support to them koffi will make banners spread around kinshasa claiming koffi central produces album of les contremaitre while they had not signed a contract yet
and when they meet to sign a contract,their lawyers advise them not to sign the contract because of some tricky clauses found there and they do not sign which pisses adada off as he feels like he has betrayed koffi who he promised to get the group under his label
album plan b will then be released under distribution label of akila and ndombolhino and one song kaniaka will catch attention but people will ignore its deep lyrics to focus on the parts where ibrator seemingly pours out his heart about the humiliation in angola and the song gets a great reception and wins award at national level and best clip award
while adada leaves the group as he wants to keep working with koffi and does not see himself under leadership of somebody,the group goes to angola and succeeds
then when they return,fabregas sends soldiers to kidnap him and bully him and take him to police but he is released thanks to a call
few times after they go to angola again and happen to be there at same time with jb mpiana and jb is informed him and a former bill clinton dancer are in the crowd and like he always does invites them on stage and ibrator will be so moved with the way jb considered him despite being not too proven yet compared to most people of his generation
when he returns to kinshasa,he still does a bit of banter against fabregas like the "game" requires but it will take another dimension when after a rehearsal he is taken by force to court on a complaint from fabregas over a car he bought thanks to a donor in his time in light music as fabro just tries everything possible to bother him and it get ibrator so pisses that now he now becomes agressive when asked about fabregas while he previously just joked to do like other artists and considered that his little grudge with fabro was over after he did those parts of kaniaka to "bury" that memory
and on two occasions he will have his concert banners torn on fabro's orders and a third time police and kulunas are sent with tear gas and stones to cause end of rehearsal where he is preparing ibrator chante jb mpiana to thank jb for having actually helped him pull a good crowd by inviting him on stage
informed about what happened,jb offers him a whole set of instruments and rents for him a rehearsal hall in a "safer" area and promises to participate to his concert
the concert happens on 29th of june in 2018 with jb's presence and he showcases his art skills with a very good reproduction of a jb picture sold to charity
few times after he will release a song for donor jeff ndjadi leteta which gets a great reception in kinshasa and even is considered to still be the best "leteta song" so far and announces his first solo album to be released soon under direction of lenny bidens
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ibrator's bio added
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Even the smallest musicians (Fabregas) behave in the same way as the bigger ones (Koffi, Werra...)... He refused to integrate Wenge and QL because of "witchcraft" but he agreed to integrate Fabregas' band while Fabregas too could make "witchcraft"...
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fabro basically was not into it like that, when he started really they were already in the group they actually started to fallout a bit when he wanted him as chef to be involved like most chef were and since he refused he pulled the other trick which is letting mbonda player or an atalaku share the "nzungu" with the boss(and guess who had success in ya mado?)
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fabro basically was not into it like that, when he started really they were already in the group they actually started to fallout a bit when he wanted him as chef to be involved like most chef were and since he refused he pulled the other trick which is letting mbonda player or an atalaku share the "nzungu" with the boss(and guess who had success in ya mado?)
It is witchcraft fundamental to succeed in Congolese music? Howcome every major artist is so obsessed about it? I mean Robinio had a great deal of success before entering that game with Tsha Nanu Boye, Ye Yo, Etirette and 4 Lettres also Fabregas weren't doing bad before Ya Mado and we all know it is due Koffi's influence that the song became a success.
Why are these artist obsessed about this witchcraft? I mean if it was really effective Congolese music would have dominated the global scene
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fabro basically was not into it like that, when he started really they were already in the group they actually started to fallout a bit when he wanted him as chef to be involved like most chef were and since he refused he pulled the other trick which is letting mbonda player or an atalaku share the "nzungu" with the boss(and guess who had success in ya mado?)
Cedric ya Mado ??
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fabro basically was not into it like that, when he started really they were already in the group they actually started to fallout a bit when he wanted him as chef to be involved like most chef were and since he refused he pulled the other trick which is letting mbonda player or an atalaku share the "nzungu" with the boss(and guess who had success in ya mado?)
Cedric ya Mado ??
Voila,and cedric did few days ago after the death of his brother nono shaka an interview where he hinted several times about how fabregas could not have forced him out of the band like that after what he did for his success
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fabro basically was not into it like that, when he started really they were already in the group they actually started to fallout a bit when he wanted him as chef to be involved like most chef were and since he refused he pulled the other trick which is letting mbonda player or an atalaku share the "nzungu" with the boss(and guess who had success in ya mado?)
It is witchcraft fundamental to succeed in Congolese music? Howcome every major artist is so obsessed about it? I mean Robinio had a great deal of success before entering that game with Tsha Nanu Boye, Ye Yo, Etirette and 4 Lettres also Fabregas weren't doing bad before Ya Mado and we all know it is due Koffi's influence that the song became a success.
Why are these artist obsessed about this witchcraft? I mean if it was really effective Congolese music would have dominated the global scene
its the system,there are people around who will convince you that an artist in DRC is weed,witchcraft,bodyguard,bullying people to show authority....and very few artists have that intelligence to do things their own way
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Zygal didn't play telecommandegenerique. It was the guy who went to Herieter
Any confirmation that French is the creator of the telecommande rhythm?
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Zygal didn't play telecommandegenerique. It was the guy who went to Herieter
Any confirmation that French is the creator of the telecommande rhythm?
its padache who created that
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Zygal didn't play telecommandegenerique. It was the guy who went to Herieter
Any confirmation that French is the creator of the telecommande rhythm?
its padache who created that
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FISTON BOKALA BONONGE LIFAMBE BOKUNDUJUANDJOKO AKA LOBESO TIGRE
fiston was born in 1982 in his region of equateur but will quickly arrive in kinshasa with his mother who is trying to follow his father who ran away
so he will grow up in kinshasa in area of ngaba and will have a difficult childhood without father,and with his mother trying to feed a big family of children of different women
but he will be good at school and his mother will keep saying "one day fiston will become the president of congo"
at some point in 90's her mother will send him and some of relatives to village to be taken care of by grandparents but quickly it turned hard again with them caught by age and unable to work properly so he'll do some unusual jobs for such a young man like fishing to sell fishes,cleaning shoesL..
He will be recalled later by an uncle and has discovered in himself some ability to do animation while cleaning shoes and things are a little bit better for him he is no more the first name to be sent out of class for lack of school fees for a couple of years
but as he edges towards last years of high school his uncle will lose his job then pass away following depression of such a radical life change,so he is once again in streets trying to get some opportunity to earn money and pay fees and feed younger brothers as he already has sense of responsability
and passion for music develops even more and he starts performing in various street groups until he ends up joining empire fondation kvk of boeing kinanga and co and performs on album sauvetage where he already mixes sebene like his role model caludji and traditional mongo folk
but boeing goes to europe for a while and he is spotted some time later by gentamicine lisimo who takes him under his wings and takes him at home to work in private and he will impress with his ability to create in 6 congolese languages and to be able to go on hours of impro and will be nicknamed fiston genie by genta's elder brother degaulle lisimo
unfortunately he is not tested in bcbg rehearsals as expected as tutu caludji openly boosts cellulaire to complement genta and brings with him two of his private group pajo and chaleur coming from quartier latin integral
and on two occasions he gets opportunity to see jb himself on public test days but first time heavy rain cancels rehearsal and second time his name is removed on list by late maitre baja for not having paid something which puts genta in uncomfortable situation as he thought fiston would be automatic on list as he is backed by him and fiston who does not understand wenge system believes genta did not put him on list deliberately to keep him in private group to help him and gets angry and leaves for months
but months after he makes peace with genta and genta to appease him pays night classes for him so that he can continue with class a little bit with the hope of getting diploma one day
but since he still is not able to get him into bcbg as a full member he is advised by genta to try to join maison mere who is then just bouncing from bill's departure with roi david but he is bullied by bodyguards and he decides to go back to village to relax and think about his future when he comes back he is informed of koffi olomide about to form a junior band to quartier latin,les mineurs,and attends tests and first succeeds but few times later when montana is asked to cut some of the list as there are too many members he is kicked out and decides to try going again to maison mere in end of 2006 but he is once again bullied and thrown out
few months later,he goes back to village again and asks ancestors what he can do because he is struggleing to fulfill his dream to become a star and take care of his family
later on when he returns he is finally tested boosted by traditional power and presents an animation for announced solo album of werra arche de noe but maison mere travel and when he comes to la zamba rehearsals in werra's absence one day he is denied access by a guard and the day after he comes and presents he has hidden in his fist he wants to give to that guard in particular and that guard will break arm the same day which will scare other guards
and when werra returns he is slowly included into rotation until he revives some of his old mongo animation of his empire foundation days and werra who is a big fan of animation in other languages than lingala appreciates it and plans to make him participate in album temps present and he will participate and shine with his mongo animation with the key dance "lobeso" which becomes his nickname but stil werra does not really fancy him to participate on clip because of his looks and it will be heritier waking him up behind werra's back and giving him clothes to shoot some sequences which werra will discover at editing but will accept since its heritier
and since his success is growing he is obviously gone to europe and shines at zenith and gets a lot of money and gifts,and when he is back in DRC his "big brother" genta who he still hangs out with everytime outside music advises him to buy a house for his family instead of losing everything in partying life because it ends faster than you can imagine and he manages to buy a house in one of the areas with reasonable price and moves his family there
his stellar participation in malewa will earn him best atalaku awards and he will come back from europe tour with a lot of money again from fans and donors and comes back with a bmw x5 which was quite huge for a simple band member
in 2011 during maison mere's last tour before europe and america combattants forbidding concerts he is approached by taddet and fabregas to leave maison mere and form band together and convince heritier who will be the leader but he refuses and remains loyal while fabregas leaves
two years after,during a group reunion he asks to get a song on albums as he has to mix his mabanga names with names werra orders to put,sometimes at expense of his names,and some of his mabanga customers had become combattants so he was getting less money
and while werra does not say anything this does not go to well with people around werra who already try to influence werra with reports that he is approached by koffi to join quartier latin
in 2014 they will take their unsettling to a whole other level by organizeing arrival of atalaku bercy muana from ferre's group and he will be publicly humiliated in a very popular test of bercy and will struggle to hide emotion after that and it will take the whol night for heritier coreen and deplick to try to calm him down as he is ready to accept koffi's offer in the heat of the moment
but comforted by his friends he goes back to village to see ancestors and come back very strong with kata fumbwa which will force werra to record a new generique as he had minimal participation on fleche ingeta for somebody who was normally the number 1 atalaku until bercy's arrival,and funnily enough it will be kata fumbwa which will save werra as people find fleche ingeta generiques too predictable and overused in concerts already
he will participate on sans poteau having this time more space as he has earned back respect with his work and he will politely refuse to follow heritier watanabe gone solo,he will be abandon in angola during tour hoping that he stays there but he returns
when bercy is gone,he expects to fully reclaim his 1st spot but to his surprised ambulance who is promoted to 2nd atalaku role will participate way more than him in 7 jours de la semaine and what will make him get in a more uncomfortable situation is an interview with journalist patsho rfi where he will say he does not have money to buy lots of champagne in nightclubs and that salary is not monthly in maison mere which will be used to unsettle him
while he was promised to be on the list for private trip of werra to united states to reward him for his resilience in tough moments and how he bailed the group out in front of the storm ya mado he will be dropped
he will be insulted by several maison mere people with especially sankara and papy le prince saying his mother did not know who is his real father because she was dating three men and will decide to go back to village to rest as he is very frustrated as he says he was ready to have his career until the end with werra and that if he had to pick between his dad and werra he'd pick werra because he has no relationship with his dad so he is hurt to be treated like that
in a tv interview he will explain why he answered like that to patcho and that he meant no harm to maison mere and will end up crying and he goes back to village for a while and maison mere guys will make mockery of him for being a village man and taddet will be sent to lie that they called him and an old person picked and said lobeso was fishing (in the musicians' logic anything which is not office work is a massive downgrade from music so people laugh until today even when guys like mbuta likasu or manda chante say they have farms outside music)
when he returns to kin he appears dressed like a traditional chief and starts announcing he is going solo despite koffi still offering to him to join and he says he'd be stupid to join when he sees what happened to gesac,and there is also ferre who likes him and a donor who wants to pay him to join ferre's group but he declines to avoid fuelling ferre's beef with werra
He will then team up with coreen to form group and will perform in some conceerts here and there with coreen but still has desire to go to america where he has a children or to europe too in order to try claiming papers which would help him be mobile to go to get contacts for their group like other solo artists of his age do
unfortunately he will as he sees they are struggleing with maison mere donors boycotting them and some of his mongo politicians who were his donors turn back on him,he will take the gamble to go to USA via eastern africa but unfortunately for him he is arrested until today and is reportedly in a bad health state
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lobeso bio added
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He should have gone to Ferre. I mean Wenge Musica Maison Mere can destroy your life if they don't like you and the only guy who could counter that was Ferre. To be honest I am a little glad Werra got kicked out of La Zamba and that Maison Mere is loosing his success despite being a fan o Maison Mere. I mean bully people who helped you, humiliating them, try to make them go crazy for what? I mean these guys have 40+ year olds still acting like they are little babies than they cry because music is not going forward.
Anyway Archos you should write a book. For real.
A book on all the Congolese musicians and tactics
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Thank bro for the entire Lobeso's bio. I think that is very unfortunate that any musician/leader or donor has gone to Uganda to try to unjail him
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@Manzambi94
Do you think he can turn his career around? Or is he finished?
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@Manzambi94
Do you think he can turn his career around? Or is he finished?
Mmm. Probably not. There are too many odds against him and his career.
Wenge musica offshot except for Ferre and Heritiee always have good relationship with Werra so they will not welcomed a guy so mistreated, humiliated and hated by headquarters as Lobeso. Ferre had the offer but I don't think if Lobeso comes now he will find the other atalakus welcoming him with open arms. He should have just gone to BCBG amd wait to become a big member there. I mean Genta is not Bill but he will be well off forever unlike many other talented atalakus of Maison Mere who struggle (like Brigade)
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He should have just gone to BCBG amd wait to become a big member there. I mean Genta is not Bill but he will be well off forever unlike many other talented atalakus of Maison Mere
He may not fit in BCBG ideology, he is quite abrasive
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He should have just gone to BCBG amd wait to become a big member there. I mean Genta is not Bill but he will be well off forever unlike many other talented atalakus of Maison Mere
He may not fit in BCBG ideology, he is quite abrasive
In what sense?
I think he would have been protected like Fusee and Tolbert solo but about his development as an atalaku that is a big question, I mean ca you imagine JB's generique with Mongo rhytm and style? I think Genta would have used some songwriters to make Lobeso sing in multiple languages
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actually lobeso developped that rude image out of frustration because he felt let down and also he was unhappy with himself for having not stayed in france despite pressure of everybody including all his girlfriends and celeo and lacoste having warned him that the day he will not be wanted anymore they'll have no mercy for him
other than that he is a cool and very very funny person
the context is totally different for the comparison i will make here but its a bit like that with boketshu a lot of people know him for his rude combattant character but behind that there is a proper good guy i have known him way before combattants and he is a really good person