Madilu lowkey might’ve been the worst bandleader of them all lol. The amount of stories of how he mistreated and simply didn’t pay them was shocking.

This would be the first time that Madilu actually had his band participating on his solo album. Before hand, he was only working with folks like Rigo Star, Dally Kimoko, Lokassa ya Mbongo, Caen Madoka, Nyboma, Malage de Lugendo, Ballou Canta, Luciana and Wuta Mayi. I wonder why this time, he decided to get his actual band into his solo album?

Back then you weren’t considered a true solo unless you had your own backing band so it was in part due to peer pressure.

The silence of the leader of the group is soo loud. Sad that she has nowhere to go.

This is like the 3rd instance of this going public and then crickets from Nsone until everyone moves on from their anger of the abuse. He’s afraid of performing without Kakol after all these years.

Being an ex-dancer is one of the most stigmatized professions in Africa in general. It’s fast life until your beauty fades and you no longer serve a purpose to the boss only to be replaced with a younger girl

I know an ex-dancer who had to leave the country and restart in the US because her dancing profession was equal to being a Prost** which meant she could not find a regular job to support herself. So I can’t imagine how much Linda is against the odds by leaving clean with the kids stuck in the middle

Happy birthday  to both

Man, Sonor is only 49. People dont talk about how young the Extra team was in their prime. Many are right there in age to the DRC 5th gen (early-mid 70’s) whom we still see as young because there is no 6th gen to speak of at this time

He’s a great bandleader - takes care of his musicians before himself and lets the have space to be known

HBD Kibense - Molière na bisso  and now restauranteur. One of my favorites from him:

Quote from: archos on August 19, 2026, 21:00

so far the only album dropping tomorrow is celeo

Didn’t know Celeo had an album coming

No one did kiekie

https://www.facebook.com/share/18FWdLJ9gh/?mibextid=wwXIfr

816 or so songs potentially bought by a large American label. Even songs he wrote for others aside from Wemba.

This is pretty unheard of in African music…. with all the nasty rights inheritance and royalty drama from deceased musicians families in the genre, this seems rather ingenious if he gets the right price.

If this goes through it will pave the way for artists on the legendary status

My thoughts…
- Huge guaranteed payday now for 50 years of music instead of collecting royalties bit by bit which has everyone not making much money off just streaming.

- The buyer can monetize the catalog globally through streaming, licensing, sampling and better royalty collection.

- Much easier for Koffi’s estate than inheriting rights to 800+ songs from multiple labels he was with in his career. Some don’t even exist anymore.

- Risk is he still getting more listeners even at his age with more streaming reach and old song going viral from time to time. Maybe the catalog becomes worth multiples more but this may take decades.

- I can foresee a bunch of ghostwriters coming out of the woodwork to contest ownership if they wrote songs claimed as his.

This now means we are 2-3 years away from a sudden release kiekie

Jeannot Pétrole revealing that Johny was quietly going through heart and kidney ailments before his passing hence us all being in shock

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He started Casa Do Canto like 5 years too late tbh. He remained loyal to Wemba and Viva in his prime years 90-98, but he ended up getting slow simmer 12 from him despite have authorization to release solo albums