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Music => Congolese Music => Topic started by: archos on May 08, 2019, 10:38
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yesterday before the soon to be legendary match of liverpool and barca i was watching wazekwa's olympia concert along with two workmates from the comoros islands who happened to have been at the concert that day along with one of their congolese friends and became fans of wazekwa from that day and who i did not know then and it came to my mind that this concert was the only along with a little bit of ferre's first europe tour,where i was involved and did not come just like a random spectator,so it came to my mind that maybe i should share my experience of the whole processus which lead to that great show,obviously i dont know 100 per cent of everything which happened,but i thought why not share my story,if people are interested?
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I can’t believe you’d ask such a question.... of course you should share!! Tell us everything my man
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Yes ndeko na biso, we are interested for your involment in the organisation of wazekwa's olympia and ferre's europe tour
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I always look forward to you sharing the inside stories/scoops of our music.
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So you helped set up Wazekwa's Olympia? I'm looking forward to hearing this story.
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Calm down guys! archos is waiting for my clearance. Now go ahead ndeko, where are you? we are humbly waiting.
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Thanks guys for your comments,i am on it,still not undecided whether to split it in two parts or the whole thing but i will upload it in the coming days for sure
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Yes, that would be nice.
What I want to know is about the money the artist receive during those events. How much money do they receive when they perform at Zenith, Olympia or Bercy and if the same money if they perform in London, Brussels, Lyon, Laussane or Berlin. Do they get paid before or after the big event. In interviews Wazekwa often said that he rent Olympia by himself. How did he arrange that ? Did rent the money from bank and how much must you pay to perform at Olympia & Zenith ?
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To understand the story of felix wazekwa's olympia on easter 2009,we have to go back 4 or 5 years before
in fact,in 2004 when cultura has already made huge progress towards cementing its position as a top group of DRC,and is enjoying third consecutive album success,the main musicians of the group especially the chef joss diena "tony blair" and the main atalaku gessac tshipoyi start putting a lot of pressure on their leader to go for bigger concert halls as they had been playing for years in small halls and performing playbacks and as they were seeing it as something vital in order to compete with fellow stars of other groups like alain mpela,fally ipupa,ferre chair de poule to name a few
but unfortunately for them,their leader felix wazekwa feels its still too early because for him becoming famous is one thing but its does not guarantee yet that you have cement a strong enough fanbase ready to follow you everywhere
and he tries to convince joss and gessac to remain in europe to try to get papers so that outside of cultura's tours,they could come with him to do further playbacks in order to make sure cultura's music is promoted better with the long term target of being able to fill bigger halls
gessac goes back to DRC after a month as he is afraid of coping with language and europe's habits on daily life while joss ends up being deported
by the end of 2006,wazekwa starts to feel ready for the challenge as he starts getting a lot of calls from fans and sees that people are now having a different perception of cultura,as a fully established group which only lacks big events to confirm their new status
in early 2007,while wazekwa is programming in europe what would have been his final proper solo album he is made aware of musicians getting intense approach from rival groups and moaning about the fact they were not getting songs to compete with other groups and even three of their rivals alain mpela,ferre and fally have gone solo,wazekwa calls them to tell them to start recording but if by the end of the month they have not finished he'll cancel that and finish his album because he is upset with some words in which the musicians moaned
when he comes back he is under big pressure again from fans and musicians to go for a bigger hall and starts announcing a olympia concert as he is ready to accept an offer,and then finish group album on that tour,but he gets visas rejected for mysterious reasons and returns on his own to europe being a french citizen
tensions grow within cultura,as musicians are upset of missing the tour having shared their stuff knowing they'll get gifts in europe and what they say is reported to wazekwa in europe and he threatens not to fund sessions anymore if they do not understand its not his fault is visas got rejected since everybody on the list had gone in europe already except nono chaka so they did not miss visas because of too much new faces
then as wazekwa falls out again with koffi olomide and also with cafe etienne tshimanga his friend and manager and advisor,cafe will accept being part of a revenge plan of koffi to destroy cultura by taking every of the big guns and like we know joss diena,julien gabbana,hono kapanga gps and dancer breveté lukima plus a couple of bodyguards will join quartier latin
and in order to appease tensions in the group in order not to lose other musicians wazekwa decides to combine his album with group albums with more musicians getting songs and the result of the new version of que demande le peuple is a tremendous success,while people thought it was over for wazekwa with the loss of pretty much the backbone of his group he bounces back exceptionally well and demand for bigger halls increases
in 2008 he will announce olympia concert for 2008 but gets visas rejected again,and later applies again for a festival in a small city in france and gets 20 visas and finds it suspect that he misses visas for olympia but not for small festivals and decides not to go and writes an open letter to french authorities but he is adamant he will perform at olympia soon and starts preparing the show slowly but surely
in the meantime he gets answered by some producers that they cant produce his show because they are afraid of losing other artists who dont get along with him and who are against it,which infuriates him and he decides to prove them a point saying that he'll produce concert himself no matter how much money it will take he even says to people around that he is really to sell some of his houses if needed(he had 9 then)
boosted by the support of famous people of his area of matete and demand and encourageing messages of fans,he decides to approach olympia owners himself to ask how much it will cost to rent the hall for a night,and they inform him that it would be around 35000 euros plus some extra fees like security,restaurant and will ask for 250 tickets for special guests and olympia direction will tell him its too much because they earn 30 per cent of every ticket sold so they can give him 50 maximum... and he'll with no hesitation pay the 35000 from his own pocket
and back in kinshasa he tries to see how he can sort the visas issues and contacts some of his friends who are musicians and politicians,and things will take a big step forward when backed by jb mpiana and werrason,he gets access to the biggest authorities of the country except the president himself
he will cancel cultura concerts and a planned first proper african tour to focus on preparing the show not that he sees things could turn around
so he will take the group in his last house of then slightly outside of kinshasa,and will with help of us his staff of then install female dancers at a hotel so that they dont live with men,and be exposed eventually to their desires,and make sure we take them from hotel to his house and then back to hotel in total safety,make sure they eat and lack nothing
and they will prepare for Exactly 29 days in a row the show and the group will get 10 visas which he does not obviously see as good enough, having in the group which prepared the show 6 guitarists,2 drummers,two mbonda players and several singers and atalakus
so he will go with jb mpiana to see ambassador of france and will end up having 23 visas having applied for 30,and 18 of the plane tickets will be funded by the prime minister of then who is a big fan of wazekwa's personality and music but wazekwa does not want to let down the 7 others who prepared the show with them
also on artistic field wazekwa gets his friend jules kibens to get advice and try to replicate the sound configuration of wenge bcbg's zenith
few days before concert,wazekwa struggles to find available plane seats for the group but luckily for him the group will arrive three days before the show,while still trying to get visas for those who remained like suzuki's brother carcini luzubu,francis bokeli and co
but once in europe the group has to face pressure from combattants who are strongly against concert which will lead to a very heated exchange which almost ends in a fight between combattants and wazekwa who gets supported by the famous sportsmen from matete who live in europe(jean paul engambe and co ) and also of course rival artists pulling the strings behind the scenes to do everything to trouble the concert
the day of concert,out of nowhere people start seeing posters similar to the concert poster but with the mention that concert is cancelled and people in metro stations spreading flyers saying that concert is cancelled,that it was just a fake news for buzz and that wazekwa is not at the level of filling olympia and things like that
and prior to that the day before musicians and dancers started to see strange things at their hotels,like dozens of ants,bats appearing in their room which will scare them and when wazekwa is informed he'll join them at hotel and we'll gather in the house of an influent cultura staff member to pray for hours
and the day of concert,we arrive at olympia in the morning and those who did not rest enough in the night sleep again
few hours before concert there is lunch and after that we take musicians on a little tour in paris to relieve a bit of pressure and meet mabanga customers before the concert then around 10 of the night when final soundcheck is completed musicians go back to start to wear concert clothes
while they were dressing dancer mboyo londo spots a strange pot hidden somewhere in locker room with bizarre plants in it and screams which alerts people and wazekwa leaves his private locker to join us and when he sees it he angrily kicks it with the foot and starts feeling heavy legs shortly after but he dressed and when saluting every single person from the group and us and making the last prayer before musicians and instrumentists make their entrance he looks at them with a serious face and says even we collapse on stage with those attacks we are getting we should just give everything,like it or not we will perform tonight and he individually touches every of them on the forehead and says "in God we trust forever"
the group will then step on stage for exactly 1H32 minutes before he is introduced by the journalists he brought from kinshasa for the event,mamie ilela and patrick mboyo
and the rest is history,felix wazekwa steps on stage to give a memorable show,with great sound,great clothes,great choreographies,crowd connexion,every ingredient of a big show are there
the day after,its a tired but proud felix wazekwa who watches videos of people already naming him the african michael jackson and the same day he will watch wih us on tv late babia ndonga on tv with the same golden outfit and dissing him for his boss which will make him laugh and say "some people will never change"
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Thank you so much ndeko for this story. About Wazekwa, I dont know what to say. He is a real leader and a good person with a great heart...
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To understand the story of felix wazekwa's olympia on easter 2009,we have to go back 4 or 5 years before
in fact,in 2004 when cultura has already made huge progress towards cementing its position as a top group of DRC,and is enjoying third consecutive album success,the main musicians of the group especially the chef joss diena "tony blair" and the main atalaku gessac tshipoyi start putting a lot of pressure on their leader to go for bigger concert halls as they had been playing for years in small halls and performing playbacks and as they were seeing it as something vital in order to compete with fellow stars of other groups like alain mpela,fally ipupa,ferre chair de poule to name a few
but unfortunately for them,their leader felix wazekwa feels its still too early because for him becoming famous is one thing but its does not guarantee yet that you have cement a strong enough fanbase ready to follow you everywhere
and he tries to convince joss and gessac to remain in europe to try to get papers so that outside of cultura's tours,they could come with him to do further playbacks in order to make sure cultura's music is promoted better with the long term target of being able to fill bigger halls
gessac goes back to DRC after a month as he is afraid of coping with language and europe's habits on daily life while joss ends up being deported
by the end of 2006,wazekwa starts to feel ready for the challenge as he starts getting a lot of calls from fans and sees that people are now having a different perception of cultura,as a fully established group which only lacks big events to confirm their new status
in early 2007,while wazekwa is programming in europe what would have been his final proper solo album he is made aware of musicians getting intense approach from rival groups and moaning about the fact they were not getting songs to compete with other groups and even three of their rivals alain mpela,ferre and fally have gone solo,wazekwa calls them to tell them to start recording but if by the end of the month they have not finished he'll cancel that and finish his album because he is upset with some words in which the musicians moaned
when he comes back he is under big pressure again from fans and musicians to go for a bigger hall and starts announcing a olympia concert as he is ready to accept an offer,and then finish group album on that tour,but he gets visas rejected for mysterious reasons and returns on his own to europe being a french citizen
tensions grow within cultura,as musicians are upset of missing the tour having shared their stuff knowing they'll get gifts in europe and what they say is reported to wazekwa in europe and he threatens not to fund sessions anymore if they do not understand its not his fault is visas got rejected since everybody on the list had gone in europe already except nono chaka so they did not miss visas because of too much new faces
then as wazekwa falls out again with koffi olomide and also with cafe etienne tshimanga his friend and manager and advisor,cafe will accept being part of a revenge plan of koffi to destroy cultura by taking every of the big guns and like we know joss diena,julien gabbana,hono kapanga gps and dancer breveté lukima plus a couple of bodyguards will join quartier latin
and in order to appease tensions in the group in order not to lose other musicians wazekwa decides to combine his album with group albums with more musicians getting songs and the result of the new version of que demande le peuple is a tremendous success,while people thought it was over for wazekwa with the loss of pretty much the backbone of his group he bounces back exceptionally well and demand for bigger halls increases
in 2008 he will announce olympia concert for 2008 but gets visas rejected again,and later applies again for a festival in a small city in france and gets 20 visas and finds it suspect that he misses visas for olympia but not for small festivals and decides not to go and writes an open letter to french authorities but he is adamant he will perform at olympia soon and starts preparing the show slowly but surely
in the meantime he gets answered by some producers that they cant produce his show because they are afraid of losing other artists who dont get along with him and who are against it,which infuriates him and he decides to prove them a point saying that he'll produce concert himself no matter how much money it will take he even says to people around that he is really to sell some of his houses if needed(he had 9 then)
boosted by the support of famous people of his area of matete and demand and encourageing messages of fans,he decides to approach olympia owners himself to ask how much it will cost to rent the hall for a night,and they inform him that it would be around 35000 euros plus some extra fees like security,restaurant and will ask for 250 tickets for special guests and olympia direction will tell him its too much because they earn 30 per cent of every ticket sold so they can give him 50 maximum... and he'll with no hesitation pay the 35000 from his own pocket
and back in kinshasa he tries to see how he can sort the visas issues and contacts some of his friends who are musicians and politicians,and things will take a big step forward when backed by jb mpiana and werrason,he gets access to the biggest authorities of the country except the president himself
he will cancel cultura concerts and a planned first proper african tour to focus on preparing the show not that he sees things could turn around
so he will take the group in his last house of then slightly outside of kinshasa,and will with help of us his staff of then install female dancers at a hotel so that they dont live with men,and be exposed eventually to their desires,and make sure we take them from hotel to his house and then back to hotel in total safety,make sure they eat and lack nothing
and they will prepare for Exactly 29 days in a row the show and the group will get 10 visas which he does not obviously see as good enough, having in the group which prepared the show 6 guitarists,2 drummers,two mbonda players and several singers and atalakus
so he will go with jb mpiana to see ambassador of france and will end up having 23 visas having applied for 30,and 18 of the plane tickets will be funded by the prime minister of then who is a big fan of wazekwa's personality and music but wazekwa does not want to let down the 7 others who prepared the show with them
also on artistic field wazekwa gets his friend jules kibens to get advice and try to replicate the sound configuration of wenge bcbg's zenith
few days before concert,wazekwa struggles to find available plane seats for the group but luckily for him the group will arrive three days before the show,while still trying to get visas for those who remained like suzuki's brother carcini luzubu,francis bokeli and co
but once in europe the group has to face pressure from combattants who are strongly against concert which will lead to a very heated exchange which almost ends in a fight between combattants and wazekwa who gets supported by the famous sportsmen from matete who live in europe(jean paul engambe and co ) and also of course rival artists pulling the strings behind the scenes to do everything to trouble the concert
the day of concert,out of nowhere people start seeing posters similar to the concert poster but with the mention that concert is cancelled and people in metro stations spreading flyers saying that concert is cancelled,that it was just a fake news for buzz and that wazekwa is not at the level of filling olympia and things like that
and prior to that the day before musicians and dancers started to see strange things at their hotels,like dozens of ants,bats appearing in their room which will scare them and when wazekwa is informed he'll join them at hotel and we'll gather in the house of an influent cultura staff member to pray for hours
and the day of concert,we arrive at olympia in the morning and those who did not rest enough in the night sleep again
few hours before concert there is lunch and after that we take musicians on a little tour in paris to relieve a bit of pressure and meet mabanga customers before the concert then around 10 of the night when final soundcheck is completed musicians go back to start to wear concert clothes
while they were dressing dancer mboyo londo spots a strange pot hidden somewhere in locker room with bizarre plants in it and screams which alerts people and wazekwa leaves his private locker to join us and when he sees it he angrily kicks it with the foot and starts feeling heavy legs shortly after but he dressed and when saluting every single person from the group and us and making the last prayer before musicians and instrumentists make their entrance he looks at them with a serious face and says even we collapse on stage with those attacks we are getting we should just give everything,like it or not we will perform tonight and he individually touches every of them on the forehead and says "in God we trust forever"
the group will then step on stage for exactly 1H32 minutes before he is introduced by the journalists he brought from kinshasa for the event,mamie ilela and patrick mboyo
and the rest is history,felix wazekwa steps on stage to give a memorable show,with great sound,great clothes,great choreographies,crowd connexion,every ingredient of a big show are there
the day after,its a tired but proud felix wazekwa who watches videos of people already naming him the african michael jackson and the same day he will watch wih us on tv late babia ndonga on tv with the same golden outfit and dissing him for his boss which will make him laugh and say "some people will never change"
I think that Koffi-fans would stop attacking Wazekwa on youtube and facebook if they knew what was going on behind the scenes. No wonder that Wazekwa has still alot of hate against Koffi Olomide.
Wazekwa's show was voted as best show of 2009 and the dvd being one of the most sold of 2009. His show at Olympia made people respect Wazekwa more, because before that he also very succesful but people were still doubting about him because he hadn't played at Olympia or Zenith. I remember Wazekwa being so pride about his show of Olympia, saying in an interview with Papy Mboma that nobody is better than him in giving shows. Wazekwa would been on a higher level if is show at Zenith wasn't a failure. It was like he had to start his career all over again, the same people who praised him for his Olympia-show mocking him on skyrock and youtube. Babia & Koffi dissing him and Wazekwa becoming sick and not returning to Kinshasa for months.
Those combattans were giving Congolese artists a hard time in 2008 and 2009. Werrason's Zenith of 2008 and Koffi's Zenith got also most cancelled. I'm sure that concert-ban wouldn't have started in 2011 if Fally Ipupa and Ferre Gola received visa's for their double Olympia vs Zenith fara-fara.
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yeah his decision to perform with the makeshift band of kerosene,mogratana and co did to prove to french authorities that he will perform even they are giving him a hard time for visas did him bad service,cultura hoped for visa till the day of concert and the guys were not to far from creating havoc at embassy since they were not getting visas,it took a good hour for eclipse to calm them down some were so furious that they almost had accidents while driving back home
then fally and ferre were next to have the visas issues
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@archos
I'm surprised Felix Wazekwa was nervous about the big concert halls in Europe, he had back to back success with Yo Nani and Et Apres. Do you feel his reservation was reasonable or did he have an inferiority complex to Koffi and others?
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I believe what was also holding him back is hearing from people around in the industry than you can only do such thing with humansacrifice and things like that so he was afraid,i remember some people who are now his ex friends were openly telling him if he accepts to create thanks to sorcerer 10 to 15 miscarriages in his group he could reach then the levels of maison mere bcbg quartier latin in terms of crazy popularity,crazy impact everywhere and so on
then he felt also that if he performed too early he could have flopped crowd wise and thats pretty much what matters most to congolese people,like mvulusi said zenith had a very bad impact on his career,so imagine his entrance in the top category started with a crowd flop it could have damaged his career forever at that time
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@archos
What year was Felix trying to have his Zenith concert before Koffi sabotaged it? And did Gesac leave because they weren't going to Zenith and Olympia like Wenge and Quartier Latin or did he leave because Koffi offered more money?
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@archos
What year was Felix trying to have his Zenith concert before Koffi sabotaged it? And did Gesac leave because they weren't going to Zenith and Olympia like Wenge and Quartier Latin or did he leave because Koffi offered more money?
because koffi offered much more money,what happened in that period is that in a couple of months wazekwa got robbed huge money at home and got tricked on buying a house the guy ran away with 37K dollars back then,so he was going through a difficult period financially while the generation of joss and co all wanted and expected huge upgrade of salary given their new status and the bigger demand from people around them(family,friends) so as it was not coming and koffi came with that big offer they went to him
but gesac in particular has always been a fan of koffi,even until today although his time in latino ended badly he never ever talks bad of koffi while he roasts wazekwa in every given opportunity
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@archos
What year was Felix trying to have his Zenith concert before Koffi sabotaged it? And did Gesac leave because they weren't going to Zenith and Olympia like Wenge and Quartier Latin or did he leave because Koffi offered more money?
It was in 2010
(https://i.postimg.cc/CKnFn60X/2900625063-small-2.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRaT6oZ7ZTw
Drigombaki made a proffesional video about the concert, but I can't find it. There weren't alot of people because they tought that the concert would be cancelled. Then before the start of the cocnert someone called the police, saying that there was a bomb in the hall which made almost everybody go away. The concert started on 3PM with Wazekwa performing in front of an empty Zenith with only 500 people. There was even a moment that he cried. I remember how Ndombolhino used to mock him on facebook for that mpiaka. Wazekwa's Zenith was the biggest mpiaka ever.
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@archos
What year was Felix trying to have his Zenith concert before Koffi sabotaged it? And did Gesac leave because they weren't going to Zenith and Olympia like Wenge and Quartier Latin or did he leave because Koffi offered more money?
2007.
Gessac was suspended by Wazekwa and he was angry about that and decided to leave the band. With that Maisha-Parc rule of bandleaders being forbidden to recruit musicians of other bands, Wazekwa tought that Gessac would be rejected from all bands and rejoin Cultura soon. But Gessac went on his own to Bibi Play to do his test, but Koffi wasn't there because he was in Europe for some contracts. Then Koffi went back to Kinshasa and Gessac did his test again with Wazekwa then calling him if it was true if he recruited Gessac and he replying by no saying that Gessac was just a guest. Then Koffi gave him some money to join Quartier Latin and sended him to Extra Musica (Gessac performed with them in Libreville, Pointe Noire & Brazzaville) and claimed to have joined Extra Musica with Wazekwa then believing Koffi. But after that, Gessac went quickly went to Kinshasa and said on the television that he officialy joined Quartier Latin. He was officialy presented during the "sortie officiel" of Les Mineurs de Quartier Latin. Madilu (who's like Wazkewa gotfather) was also invited by Koffi and started to attack Koffi about that when started to sing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EeUzXdY57M&t=1823s
Suddenly, Koffi decided to quit AMC and Maisha Parc, all bandleaders found his decision strange and Papa Wemba who was the president of it made even an official statement about it. But it was to pass that rule of nor recruiting musicians of other bands. Then Koffi started with his operation to steal all keymembers of Wazekwa's band and started contacting them all. With Gabbanna joining as first. Then Joss Diena started to attack both Gabbana & Gessac, but the next day he joined Quartier Latin and started to attack Wazekwa. Then Wazekwa went to tv and said with alot of self-confidence that they could recruit whole Cultura, but they would never be able to steal Hono Kapanga. Then the next day Hono Kapanga joined Quartier Latin.
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@archos
What year was Felix trying to have his Zenith concert before Koffi sabotaged it? And did Gesac leave because they weren't going to Zenith and Olympia like Wenge and Quartier Latin or did he leave because Koffi offered more money?
It was in 2010
(https://i.postimg.cc/CKnFn60X/2900625063-small-2.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRaT6oZ7ZTw
Drigombaki made a proffesional video about the concert, but I can't find it. There weren't alot of people because they tought that the concert would be cancelled. Then before the start of the cocnert someone called the police, saying that there was a bomb in the hall which made almost everybody go away. The concert started on 3PM with Wazekwa performing in front of an empty Zenith with only 500 people. There was even a moment that he cried. I remember how Ndombolhino used to mock him on facebook for that mpiaka. Wazekwa's Zenith was the biggest mpiaka ever.
Till this day everytime I see footage of wazekwa’s zenith it makes me sad, even though I was a clan latino fan back then, he didn’t deserve that. That’s one of the few footage that should get destroyed.
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Mvulusi not just one person if i recall well police said they received 81 calls within an hour the day of concert before the fake bomb alert when we all had to leave the hallt vieux cesar ngadi even got his car attacked for having promoted this concert
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Mvulusi not just one person if i recall well police said they received 81 calls within an hour the day of concert before the fake bomb alert when we all had to leave the hallt vieux cesar ngadi even got his car attacked for having promoted this concert
Wow serious ?!! mawa trop... and Koffi then coming proud with campagne on tv.
I think Wazekwa could have go slowly back on the top if there wasn't a concert-ban in Europe because Hauts Les Mains did it a well in Kinshasa with the song Evida of Lisha Shombo. That concert-ban killed and blocked alot of things.
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Mvulusi not just one person if i recall well police said they received 81 calls within an hour the day of concert before the fake bomb alert when we all had to leave the hallt vieux cesar ngadi even got his car attacked for having promoted this concert
I hate it when people stoop so low just to spite their enemies, or even throw their toys out of the pram and start acting like spoilt children until they get their way. Why am I reminded of the last-minute cancellation of Heritier's Olympia?
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HAHAHA i remember vieux quadra coming to an interview the day or few days after with a bottle of champagne and journalist saying alcohol is not allowed on tv but koffi toying with him like usual and open and drank and started throwing shade at the failed concert
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@mvulusi96
As the saying goes; you reap what you sow. Koffi went above and beyond to sabotage Felix Wazekwa's band, but it came at a significant cost to himself.
https://youtu.be/DXJKG2AiiII
Gesac came with just noise that entire generique, it was embarrasing how he let such a good partition go to waste at the 5 minute 48 second part. What happened? He had zero memorable cries during his time in Quartier Latin.
https://youtu.be/1dyk5LqxvaQ
Bla Bla Bla was slighty better, but not by much. After those two generiques flopped, I was nervous for Koffi. BEK was slow to impact unlike his previous album. In my opinion, I don't think Koffi ever recovered from that album underperforming. He is scared to take risk and promote anyone other than Cindy
https://youtu.be/1dyk5LqxvaQ
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In addition to the success of the song Mosapi Liboso, Gessac made a big buzz when he came to Koffi with "c'est le moment" et " Sarkozy "
Although he invented his cries at Cultura and it must have been the cries of M.SEGUIN.
Koffi took a lot of time to release the generic, there was bla bla bla but in bad quality and this generique was only in kinshasa
Lopele , Linda Castro, Sous Sol and .... Que demande le peuple are out and have had a big success in the meantime.
People have started to think that Gessac can leave, felix will always have the crown for the generics (Thanks to Livre d'or and Young Bercy muana) since that time Gessac success esili !!
Pitshou Concorde did a professional job too, we don't feel the absence of Hono
"a crazy man eats in the trash" This dance was crazy, everyone danced that.
This diss was for Koffi Joss Gabanna Hono and Gessac
After this defeat, Koffi left Gessac, hono, Joss and Gabanna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20WXUAYXYUw
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I watch this video sometimes, sebene was good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RVJRuOtz7s
Why did Gessac have trouble settling in Europe? And why was Joss deported? And it seems like artists have to get visas in secret (in case a rival wants to sabotage them) and then announce the concert. They should've booked the flight in advance, it would've been bad if they missed that flight. It was probably Koffi who sent all those weird stuff to their hotels and backstage of Olympia, good that Wazekwa and Zenth got to play at Olympia and Zenith(given the circumstances).
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gessac could not speak french let alone read french,it was always joss or somebody else doing paperwork for him also the weather scared him,it was a strong winter and he first moved to UK but then again he feared english even more and to wazekwa's surprise few days after gesac arrived at concert with nobody knowing he has arrived in kinshasa
joss was deported because of jealousy of one of his sidekicks,he went to buy a car in germany or holland with money given by another sidekick and the jealous one snitched to authorities and he got caught and could not even buy the car(he was already having arguments with wazekwa over that car,wazekwa was saying he'd pay him the same car back in kinshasa with a more affordable price and no transport extra fee while joss wanted his car coming from europe to show off from airport
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by the way i forgot a little detail in the story,when we chose the outfits the musicians would wear,wazekwa's and many guys in the staff originac choice was the usual black suit white shirt and red bow tie and i suggested another idea which was the white and golden,white to symbolize peace and golden because it was a dream come true,and we ended up voting between those two and also somebody else who wanted them to wear gladiator clothes like wenge tonya tonya in their olympia
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gessac could not speak french let alone read french,it was always joss or somebody else doing paperwork for him also the weather scared him,it was a strong winter and he first moved to UK but then again he feared english even more and to wazekwa's surprise few days after gesac arrived at concert with nobody knowing he has arrived in kinshasa
joss was deported because of jealousy of one of his sidekicks,he went to buy a car in germany or holland with money given by another sidekick and the jealous one snitched to authorities and he got caught and could not even buy the car(he was already having arguments with wazekwa over that car,wazekwa was saying he'd pay him the same car back in kinshasa with a more affordable price and no transport extra fee while joss wanted his car coming from europe to show off from airport
Its also one of the reasons that Gessac doesn't want to return to Cultura, because Wazekwa humilated him about that on tv. When Gessac left, Felix Wazekwa went to the tv and dissed by saying that he doesn't know how to write and how to read lol.
Koffi Olomide wouldn't have been able to leave Joss behind in Kinshasa for the 2009 Zenith if he had those papers.
So when started Lolo Milolo and Joss Diena dating ?
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gessac could not speak french let alone read french,it was always joss or somebody else doing paperwork for him also the weather scared him,it was a strong winter and he first moved to UK but then again he feared english even more and to wazekwa's surprise few days after gesac arrived at concert with nobody knowing he has arrived in kinshasa
joss was deported because of jealousy of one of his sidekicks,he went to buy a car in germany or holland with money given by another sidekick and the jealous one snitched to authorities and he got caught and could not even buy the car(he was already having arguments with wazekwa over that car,wazekwa was saying he'd pay him the same car back in kinshasa with a more affordable price and no transport extra fee while joss wanted his car coming from europe to show off from airport
I think Gessac blew a chance, may would've loved that opportunity. He should've learned French and English better, now look at his career. Why was Joss deported was he in the country illegally? That side chick should've stayed in her lane. And did Koffi get the jacket Wazekwa wore the day before so fast? He must've been really mad that Wazekwa got to play Olympia.
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joss visa had expired and he was about to renew and try to cement papers through the one who gave money for the car,he just went for the car earlier to anticipate the relatively long time it can take to get it to kin via port but that girl snitched it
haha koffi actually gave both the black and the golden jackets wazekwa wore to babia on consecutive weeks after the concert to belittle it,thats a old trick from him did with jf ifonge and cnn against jb,did it several times with babia on several artists,the last example i can remember is that when werra returned to india,he gave the same indian outfit to shaka kongo and said you'll be the one presenting my entrance at concert so that everybody notices
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@archos
Are Koffi and Felix still on bad terms or have they made peace?
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they had made some peace,but behind the scenes,some common friends of koffi and wazekwa are snitching to wazekwa some stuff koffi says so wazekwa took a step back,he was not far from being ready for a reconciliation concert,but now he has changed his mind a bit
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Did Wazekwa make money out of this concert?
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yes from the ticket sales, he made a profit of around 15k,he used all that money straight away to buy a house destined to his foundation where he takes street guys to make them learn carpentry and other jobs
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joss visa had expired and he was about to renew and try to cement papers through the one who gave money for the car,he just went for the car earlier to anticipate the relatively long time it can take to get it to kin via port but that girl snitched it
haha koffi actually gave both the black and the golden jackets wazekwa wore to babia on consecutive weeks after the concert to belittle it,thats a old trick from him did with jf ifonge and cnn against jb,did it several times with babia on several artists,the last example i can remember is that when werra returned to india,he gave the same indian outfit to shaka kongo and said you'll be the one presenting my entrance at concert so that everybody notices
Hahahahaha. Is there any footage of Shaka Kongo with those clothes ?
Koffi Olomide did the same thing with Zobozi back in 2001. Mamy Ilela was then interviewing Papa Wemba at RTNC he whore those clothes he had in the Maman-videoclip, Koffi then sended Zobozi with the same clothes to RNTC to attack Papa Wemba, but he came to late. Then he followed Papa Wemba in his neighborhood Matonge where he was received like a king sitting on a Tshipoyi and tried to beat his suit on Wemba's face, but was then severly beaten by the Viva-fanatics and almost died.
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i randomly came across this topic yesterday and it came to my mind that if people are interested i can give the story behind that sadly notorious zenith of wazekwa,even if i was a bit less involved in the process given my depression starting to grow
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i randomly came across this topic yesterday and it came to my mind that if people are interested i can give the story behind that sadly notorious zenith of wazekwa,even if i was a bit less involved in the process given my depression starting to grow
Yes bro I think we will be a lot of people here interested to know this story, I hope that everything is fine for you now