Congo Vibes
Music => Congolese Music => Topic started by: archos on May 31, 2025, 13:57
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https://youtu.be/eoP9FaxPY44
Even mbuta is impressed,you can tell by being close to his brother he almost captured a similar way of singing
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I've never seen a mourning/funeral of a Congolese artist without drama about money
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I've never seen a mourning/funeral of a Congolese artist without drama about money
I could be oversimplifying the problem, but as the Congolese artists starts to make real money, maybe they should write a will or establish a trust fund.
If upon death everyone pretty much knows who inherits what from the source's mouth, random family wouldn't feel so emboldened to stake a claim for property and money.
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I've never seen a mourning/funeral of a Congolese artist without drama about money
I could be oversimplifying the problem, but as the Congolese artists starts to make real money, maybe they should write a will or establish a trust fund.
If upon death everyone pretty much knows who inherits what from the source's mouth, random family wouldn't feel so emboldened to stake a claim for property and money.
You are talking in western terms, but Congo eza Congo there is no will or trust fund who a person could write that will stop a family to get the money or other things from a musician who is dead, you could never prevent fight between family when the musican die because verybody wamt something for themsleves and have no will to share it
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I've never seen a mourning/funeral of a Congolese artist without drama about money
I could be oversimplifying the problem, but as the Congolese artists starts to make real money, maybe they should write a will or establish a trust fund.
If upon death everyone pretty much knows who inherits what from the source's mouth, random family wouldn't feel so emboldened to stake a claim for property and money.
I was referring to the way Chirac said he suddenly heard that the former governor Gentily Ngobila gave $25,000 to the musicians for General Defao’s mourning, but that he himself hadn't been informed. Maybe that they tried to reach their oncle, which I don't believe. But I just noticed when the governement or provincial authorities being involved in funding the funeral or mourning of an artist, you always hear things like: they gave $100,000, $150,000 or $50,000; that artist X or Y stole money, the head of Socoda did this or that the family received nothing or just peanuts.
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When Defao passed he was having financial issues, so he didn’t have an estate or an heir to pass on. I assume the point of contention was the money received by the state.
Indeed @Mfumu there’s always a problem with the end recipient getting the funds whenever the government tries to help the funerals