Author Topic: Seskain Molenga talking about Tabu Ley's Olympia and the meeting with Mobutu  (Read 831 times)

Mfumu Vata on: March 12, 2022, 08:01

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lol, Tabu Ley was the most evil bandleader that ever existed hahahahaha.

The way musicians weren't paid which made Mobutu furious and sending a plane to get all musicians and Tabu Ley refusing to justify where they money went. Seskain also saying how they went to Mont Ngaliema at Mobutu's house and them missing the money, medialles and houses in Lemba Salongo he wanted to the musicians, after discovering that from the 50 musicians that went to Olympia only 25 returned. Mobutu being dissapointed, about the money invested and seeing that bandleader weren't serious, giving the example the way he gave Franco money after that Franco asked it to make a recording-studio. but hadn't done anything with the money, Tabu Ley having slept in his house for Olympia, etc. The minister ordering them to do a national tour and saying that the musicians would be paid directly and not through Tabu Ley. Tabu Ley not being happy with it. After the national tour, they went directly to Senegal and president Leopold Senghor wanting them to give medailles for the way they sung also Senegalese songs and sending a whole bus to get them, but them missing it because of Tabu Ley and his cousin Roger Izeidi going secretly to Senghor without informing the musicians to get those medailles for themselves.

Seskain also explaining the way music-genre/rhythm Soum Djoum during the National Tour, thinking that the music they made at Olympia being complicated for the music with the many guitars that were used, but the genre they created not having a name until they arrived in Senegal and having to perform at a big market called Soumbe Djoumou, which made them call the genre they created Soum Djoum to refer to that market.

The also explained why he left in 1978 in France after receiving peanuts, the way many musicians died poor and how Tabu Ley was spending all the money on women. President Tombalbaye of Tchad wanting to give them medailles and gave them money, but Tabu Ley taking all the money. There's a point where he says that he demanded money to Tabu Ley in Ilebo (Port Franqui) and  went they went to Kamina before going back to Kinshasa, Tabu Ley lied to soldiers that Seskain insulted Mobutu and the soldiers assaulted physically him very hard and put him to prison. He almost died in prison, but was lucky that his nephew who was a commander liberated him from prison when seeing, the moment had was asking the prisoners what they did to be arrrested. He then explained that how he got liberated (he got a little bit emotional after saying that) and why created Empire Bakuba.
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