ado asks if he will be honest and he says i swear,and ado asks if we can confirm he was the first ever soloist of wenge,and he says yes obviously
the name of wenge came from a football team of the area and the original structure in 81 was him zing zong as chef d orchestre,didier masela co founder,werrason co founder and aime bwanga founder
he is then asked if didier masela is the founder of wenge and he says if they go back to the origins no but it was rather aime and he became the founder when him zing and aime went to europe in 86
jb arrived months after when his family moved to bandal,and later on him and aime were kind of erased from the history by the wenge of jb werra and co because they were pissed that their two friends "let them down"by going to europe too early
the first president was not a musician it was a donor,papy kimbi and the name of wenge became 4X4 tout terrain bcbg because of jb often saying that when they are talking and he is hyped about their future and was saying wenge will become big like 4X4 cars
he is asked whether he played mulolo in studio and he said no but the whole conception prior to recording which was done when he was on his way to europe was under his direction,actually jb was the one who had the most songs which could be released at that time and jb trusted him for the songs arrangement
ado asks whether mulolo belongs to jb or to werra and zing says no debate mulolo is a jb mpiana song and when they were rehearsing it the song lacked chorus between the parts of the songs and werra's uncle late nico gave them idea to incorporate mulolo part as the chorus as it was a popular song of bandundu( a similar happened years later with werra doing kamulangu from kasai reginon in another jb song)
ado then asks true or false that he trained alain makaba in early 80's and he said yes he was already playing guitar as a little kid before makaba also got offered a guitar by his parents so when makaba got his one,he taught him the basics of sebene and the rest is history
Their parents were not happy at all with the way they wanted to play music especially in his own case his dad was an ambassador of Zaire and it was like a shame to the family
people started calling them wenge stars at times because they used to invite defao in their early concerts as a mentor to them but as they made their own history late the real name reappeared naturally
jb becames the first musician to be president when he was already gone to europe and marie paul he knew him as a neighbor from bandal but he joined wenge when he was already in europe
he knew adolphe also already but adolphe was at time not a musician but he was not too surprised when he heard that adolphe joined wenge because he was already into that world with his playback either next to defao or in his name
he did most of the solo and rythm of the mulolo album then when he went to europe to please his parents who were against him becoming a musician makaba played his partitions with his own touch
he had a great style of playing inspired by pepe felly manuaku and rigo star and also soloists of victoria eleison,aswell as a neighbour of bandal firason who was a great soloist
when he had left the group waiting for his parents to send him to europe as promised so that he abandons his idea of music,makaba invited him and cooked rice with corned beef and a beer and asked him if he could do his work in studio instead of starting all over and he agreed and later on people who are into spirtual world told him he did a mistake of accepting because he then "offered his power" to makaba symbolically instead of benefiting himself from the glory of his creation but its a good thing because mulolo revealed wenge and makaba
ado asks again why he is not given due credit in wenge history and he says its because his friends were hurt with his departure especially as he was the artistic master at time before makaba blossomed after his departure so they thought the group could be in jeopardy with such a huge loss so they wanted to prove him a point in succeeding without him and then act like he did not exist before
he is asked whether its true that wenge copied victoria eleison and he says yes and proof is the jb songs of album mulolo are victoria style and ado asks why he credits jb for the likeness with victoria and he says indeed werra and masela had songs but jb's songs which was in pure victoria style were the most popular
he used to go to victoria concerts a lot to learn their style and as jb himself confirmed in interview they were working together a lot to try to implement victoria into their music
as early singers there was anibo panzu,blaise bula,wes koka,deno star,werrason and jb,him zing as soloist,makaba on rhythm and solo,christian zitu,masela and aime on bass,el pazo mavuzi the older brother of blanchard mosaka on drums
jb became an admin very fast because he came with a huge contribution straight away
he is asked about wenge aile paris and whether marie paul was the leader and he says it all started when ricoco succesfully arrived along with drummer pipo when 4X4 tried to come with fake visas,and he wanted to record an album and zing says he was reluctant because he was already working and had lost interest in music,but he told ricoco to work with his roommate djudjuchet and djudjuchet programmed all the songs and after ricoco insisted a lot he went and played lead and djudju mixed it while him zing thought he played just as a pre record but djudju said it was fantastic already the way it is
and then journalist manda tchebwa promoted it in kinshasa and its manda tchebwa who motivated ricoco that they should form a band so somehow its him the founder of aile paris,so they teamed up and later on marie paul arrived and a split happened in 92 with some going to kin as saddam mobutu wanted to prove a point to wenge4X4 and some like jdl,jf ifonge,cesar loboko and co went to usa with aime buanga who refused to go
he says he is not doing this interview to hurt anybody,he just says thing they way he saw them,he says a special thanks to jb,who in recent interviews brought him back in the history of wenge and jb never pretended in any interview that he was in wenge from day one in those interviews and he liked that honesty
