Do you think that Emeneya would not have that dip until his return in Kinshasa of 1997, if he released the Live-version of Everybody instead of the programmed version ?
I really wonder what went wrong. Because he wanted to enter the World-Music section like his mentor Papa Wemba and had Abeti's manager Gerard Akueson who needed to manage him like he brought Abeti Masikini really far in her career. But they broke away before Everybody and Sonodisc didn't do anything to promote the album really well around the world. Sometimes I think that Sonodisc didn't really made the African artists progress. Just helping them with distributing their albums better around Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia. But not really promoting outside their community, just doing the same things like small music labels, only having the difference that they would pay their artists better and being fair with royalties. If I remember well, in a documentary about Congolese music, Verckys was complaining about the creation of European musiclabels only focusing on African music and stealing their musicians.