Author Topic: ALAIN MPELA AND THE STORY OF WENGE INTERVIEW IN PARIS  (Read 4874 times)

archos on: April 14, 2014, 08:19

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Tunutu #1 on: April 14, 2014, 10:05

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archos #2 on: April 14, 2014, 10:33

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Do the needful Archos, translate

i will translate based on memory and in short
alain says he meet werrason in november 1986 while on holidays at his aunt's house as he was playing with his cousins and singing emeneya's songs and werra was very impressed and told him to repeat and asked him if would like to join wenge and werra introduces him to masela,then jb then makaba and all are very impressed by his talent
he then lives with werra  and later masela and lives with jb until the split,and it was natural for him to follow jb since they became like brothers( as him and his brothers bouro and seguin also lived with jb)
he added that most musicians followed jb because they knew werra was very stint on money and did not pay him whereas jb was giving them some money and they already had europe tour shortly after split
ferré and christian mabanga knocked bcbg's door but were rejected because they were too close to werra and bcbg guys thought they came in to spy them then report to werra
had ferre been allowed in he would have been with them in that europe tour
alain said he became chef d'orchestre even when bula and makaba were still there because jb had trust on him to have that responsability and he thinks he did it well  until his departure and also he started the system of governement with other musicians being ministers and so on
 he left bcbg because he thought his time had come to go solo and he  is not in hunt for success again since he has already proven a lot in wenge musica and in bcbg so he is not bothered about  people talking more these days about the likes of fally ferre and co
 apart from music,he has strong political ambitions and  its not something new even in wenge musica days he was already very interested in politics and still is a student,now preparing a master in international relations
about his own album he announces it for this summer after finishing clips