Bozi Boziana and Papa Wemba are old but yet are better singers than the young bloods like Ferre Gola and Fally Ipupa. No shock to me.
oh yes, that is a pure natural talent,he is a bit like vieux nyboma or luciana its sounds so easy when they sing because of that natural flow they have,not trying 100 "nuances" every other minute of the song lol
Quote from: Franco Pepe Kalle on November 08, 2014, 17:52Bozi Boziana and Papa Wemba are old but yet are better singers than the young bloods like Ferre Gola and Fally Ipupa. No shock to me.Better singers than Ferre? hmmm nayebi te koi!!!!
Ferre is a good Singer...he is still very young. We need to respect those who are in their fifties and still sing well. I hope and wish Ferre will still good in his 60s. I’ll surprise you by telling you that Ferre is young but lacks some singing techniques Papa Wemba has. Do you know that Papa Wemba wanted to take some singing lessons in the 80’s (in France)? Ray Lema was the one who said to him: “You don’t need to... there are people who take singing lessons to do what you already do naturally”.
Am a major fan of both Papa Wemba and Ferre Gola, these two are in my opinion the best vocalists out of Congo but off course they have their limits to how much they can push their vocals and if you are smart you can just about hear and point out when Papa Wemba or Ferre pushes his voice a bit far.
My only contention is on Bozi Boziana being a better singer than Ferre and Fally as FPK said above,am sure am not the only one who can argue on that, Vieux Bozi is a great singer but not exceptional and simply because he wants to sound like a woman,he doesn't sound natural and that's the problem Koffi Olomide found himself with till he got to the point where he actually needed a woman to do those parts that he could no longer do due to his voice becoming hoarse for those high note female vocals he liked to do in the past.
Ferre is the only Singer who gave me goose bumps among all the young Singers after the split of Wenge. That happened the first time I listened to Vita Imana at my friend`s place.