Congo Vibes
Music => Congolese Music => Topic started by: CM PRINCE on February 20, 2026, 17:46
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https://youtu.be/V-FwkYZIuZU?si=ALdbhoY9vH13RxwG
The way maison mère fans are currently messing with Adolphe making out like he hasn’t done anything since leaving maison mère a lot still don’t know that he performed at Olympia.
If there was an official release that could’ve been used to shut them up, why didn’t Adolphe release the concert? Olympia is a big deal it’s not like it’s like lsc, so many artists still dream of performing there but Adolphe did it
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It has been said that Adolphe's show was big mpiaka. It was not smart from Adolphe to plan the show on a sunday and as last event of the tour, because everybody had already seen them. During the tour they had already performed twice at LSC. If I remember well, Werrason had a double-show at BOZAR of Brussels during the same weekend. At that time, when someone would have a big show in Paris, you had people coming from UK, Switserland, Germany, Belgium, etc. to France. Differently from mid 2000s, when shows of Paris started slowly to rally on people from France itself. About the point of Adolphe not selling Olympia out, even if the show not being sold out, it still strange that there didn't came VHS on the market. Because there bands in that era that didn't sell venues out, but still had a VHS of the show. Late Charly Balaka once asked Adolphe Dominguez about it, showing an extract of him singing in Olympia with Adolphe reacting irritated and saying there were people who filmed the show on their own camera. There must have been something that happened behind the scenes
Before going to Europe, Adolphe was promising the public a show at LSC and Olympia. But it's strange why he started with LSC instead of Olympia. Adolphe had to start the Europe tour with Olympia instead of LSC. Altought some negative articles being written about Adolphe's Olympia, there were also postive articles about it (probably journalists who were on Tonya Tonya's payroll). However, the focus was mostly about Adolphe's musicians running away the same week and if the concert at Stade des Martyrs would still take place. When Tonya Tonya returned, Shella and Washington acted on tv like Olympia being nothing special and them having planned there show there as good-bye concert. Until this day Shella keeps saying that they proved the world a point by doing their goodbye-concert of the tour there
In 2005, Zacharie Bababaswe made a video with Martin Mapangu, where he was talking about Werrason signing with Bralima, tours in Europe not having impact anymore like in the past, also about the 1998-2002 when Congolese bands used to do Bercy's, Zenith's and Olympia. In the same video he claimed that Adolphe's Olympia was supposed to be that of Meiway and Adolphe just simply playing in his place