Congo Vibes
Music => Congolese Music => Topic started by: Manzambi94 on October 18, 2019, 23:27
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Lately I am listening to a lot of Brazzaville's music amd digging in it more it is rare to find ex musicians or musicians complain about salary or the fact that they didn't get paid in time. Knowing how Brazza's music has less donors and less budget to operate (even though usually Brazaville artists are known by Ivorians, Cameroonians usually where the real money are made) howcome it is rare or impossible to find the same level of complaining by musicians and minor members about salary and living conditions? Thinking about it even the smallest group of musicians from the smallest orchestra in Brazza usially look nice and cleaner than their counterpart for example you will never see a video like Test by Fabregas (where Nimetele is literally looking like an homeless guy) by a major or minor artist from Congo Brazzaville
https://youtu.be/dtQlcQs72yY
https://youtu.be/Jo5qhfh58uE
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Its actually the same like in Kinshasa. But you hear less about them, because they don't go to the press and music doesn't live that much in Brazzaville like in Kinshasa. Compared to those living in Kinshasa, they make zero money (unless if they are a private band of someone from the Sassou-entourage or someone coming from Pointe Noire), that's why there is always some jealousy towards musicians from Kinshasa, because they always sings songs for donors from Brazzaville while those living in Brazzaville are getting zero support. There are few interviews of former Extra Musica and Patrouilles des Stars musicians complaining about how their leaders are treating them, but people are giving zero attention to it. Not a long time ago Doudou Copa's musicians were mocking Sonor Digital for still renting a house and asking people for money to buy gasoline for his car.
Most bands or solo artists always move to Pointe Noire, because the life as musician in Brazzaville is to hard and there in Pointe Noire they can get financial support from donors. Pointe Noire is the centre of the oil industry in Congo-Brazzaville and one of the main oil producers in Central Africa which makes it having alot of rich people living there (most work for French oil company Elf). But most "grand pretre who make money there,don't like to invest money in music". People from Congo-Brazzaville are calling Pointe Noire "cimetiere ya ba musiciens", because alot of musicians live there but they are going nowhere in their career (Quetin Moyascko, Regis Touba, Arafat 2500 volts, Julien Antonio, etc.) the list is long.
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talking about brazza,is it true that zaparo left extra musica? i saw a video of few seconds of him arriving in paris on his own
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I don’t know. People are asking the same thing on his Facebook-page but he isn’t replying.
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i just saw on his page a post of him explaining he came to see family and if he wanted to leave extra he would make it clear