Congo Vibes
Music => Congolese Music => Topic started by: Cavalier Solitaire on January 14, 2019, 10:19
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Like title says, i read that when this song came out it was politically censored due to what the authorities deemed as lyrics likely to incite the population to rise against the newly formed government of Mzee Kabila. And who is the original composer?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXYHmByOFZA
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yes it got jb in trouble i remember they were once going somewhere via brazza and jb and genta who arrived the last were given a hard time by the DGM guys at beach,then it took him few weeks to be allowed to go to paris
that song is a result of three songwriters,some parts are pascal poba,some are kibens,some are blanchard mosaka
it became much worse for him years after and now the few times he plays the song he starts directly towards the sebene
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No wonder its difficult for Congolese artists to do politically "sensitive" songs nowadays. The consequences are too much to risk taking that path... I didn't know that Mosaka is also a composer.
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Those politicians are clowns. They always censor those kind of songs. In 2007 they also censored Felix Wazekwa’s Que Demande Le Peuple. They only know how to kill people, steal money, marry many women and buying villa’s in Europe.
I liked the songs JB Mpiana made about our society (Bana Lunda, Conseil Patcho, Courage, Feux de l’Amour, RDC, Omba & Education). I‘m interessed about the extrat of Chemin de Fer he sung in an interview with Garry Iwele, singing then “mabala ya lelo ekoma commerce....”
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No wonder its difficult for Congolese artists to do politically "sensitive" songs nowadays. The consequences are too much to risk taking that path... I didn't know that Mosaka is also a composer.
yep,in every album since th he has always given at least a song,and also collaborated with people outside bcbg like koffi,fally,a good part of montana's second album....
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Those politicians are clowns. They always censor those kind of songs. In 2007 they also censored Felix Wazekwa’s Que Demande Le Peuple. They only know how to kill people, steal money, marry many women and buying villa’s in Europe.
I liked the songs JB Mpiana made about our society (Bana Lunda, Conseil Patcho, Courage, Feux de l’Amour, RDC, Omba & Education). I‘m interessed about the extrat of Chemin de Fer he sung in an interview with Garry Iwele, singing then “mabala ya lelo ekoma commerce....”
Not only did they censor que demande le peuple but soldiers were sent to physically assault his mother at the house he offered her(which is by far the biggest of his houses) and since it was avoided last minute thanks to an intervention of a minister he was classmates with in france they blocked water and power supply for years until that minister became a minister of energy and solved it for his friend
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Those politicians are clowns. They always censor those kind of songs. In 2007 they also censored Felix Wazekwa’s Que Demande Le Peuple. They only know how to kill people, steal money, marry many women and buying villa’s in Europe.
I liked the songs JB Mpiana made about our society (Bana Lunda, Conseil Patcho, Courage, Feux de l’Amour, RDC, Omba & Education). I‘m interessed about the extrat of Chemin de Fer he sung in an interview with Garry Iwele, singing then “mabala ya lelo ekoma commerce....”
Not only did they censor que demande le peuple but soldiers were sent to physically assault his mother at the house he offered her(which is by far the biggest of his houses) and since it was avoided last minute thanks to an intervention of a minister he was classmates with in france they blocked water and power supply for years until that minister became a minister of energy and solved it for his friend
Isn’t that the villa in Mont Ngafula not far from the university ?
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exactly,not far from university
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Those politicians are clowns. They always censor those kind of songs. In 2007 they also censored Felix Wazekwa’s Que Demande Le Peuple. They only know how to kill people, steal money, marry many women and buying villa’s in Europe.
I liked the songs JB Mpiana made about our society (Bana Lunda, Conseil Patcho, Courage, Feux de l’Amour, RDC, Omba & Education). I‘m interessed about the extrat of Chemin de Fer he sung in an interview with Garry Iwele, singing then “mabala ya lelo ekoma commerce....”
Not only did they censor que demande le peuple but soldiers were sent to physically assault his mother at the house he offered her(which is by far the biggest of his houses) and since it was avoided last minute thanks to an intervention of a minister he was classmates with in france they blocked water and power supply for years until that minister became a minister of energy and solved it for his friend
Eish. That's taking censorship to the extremes. Anyway, i wouldn't be surprised given how protests are crushed with live ammunition. And this partly explains why lyrics of love and sex nature have become so common in rumba music, its because of the limited topics available to artists to sing on. Anyone who sings about other social issues affecting the country is considered an enemy of the state.