Author Topic: Safro Manzangi getting interviewed by Hyppolite Kimbangala  (Read 415 times)

Mfumu Vata on: January 27, 2026, 23:39

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former guitarist of Viva la Musica and Victoria Eleison getting interviewed by Hyppolite Kimbalanga. I would like Mr la Rumba to interview him as well and go in detail about the 1986-1991 period. I am really surprised to hear that Deux Temps was supossed to be his solo-album and how it got changed into a group album. It seems that there were alot of dissatisfaction within the group during the the long tour of 1986-87, hearing the interviews of Safro, Lutula, Makolin and Patcho Star.It is insane how they prepared  Franco's project Attention na Sida

Safro here says that the conflict between Verckys and Emeneya, was because of Emeneya refusing to record in Zaire anymore. Was it just a way from Emeneya to avoid Verckys profiting from his rights or did he want to record something that would equal Nzinzi ? Former Dymanique Asha atalaku Azanga once said in an interview that the conflict between Verckys and Emeneya got so tense, that he confisticated Emeneya's BMW and gave it to Licky Djo, who was the leader of Dymanique Asha, because of not having respected the contract. I would like to hear the version of other Victoria Eleison artists of that time about the conflict between Verckys and Emeneya. Emeneya basically killed his own succces by refusing to record in Zaire anymore after Nzinzi.

I was surprised to hear that Mokosa was as well orginally not Victoria's project, but Safro's album, after getting contacted by Verckys through Denewade and Emeneya just putting Mokosa last minute on the album. Emeneya was really stingy to give Safro just 500 dollars from the 20.000 dollars he received from tobacco-company Okapi. While normally his picture wasn't supossed to be the album-cover. I suspect Emeneya getting money from Bralima as well for the way, he put Primus as album-cover for the album Deux Temps (1987)