About Ci golese ghostwriters, you have got to understand that level of culture and lyrics in general due to difficult conditions in Congo has decreased so guys like Fally, Ferre, Koffi, Werra use songwriters who will never reach level of Luambo, Tabu etc. Not because mainly of ignorance but because lower conditions bring lower motivations.
Yeh that was the moment that he returned with Ferre, Titina, Binda Bass, Felly Tyson and Koffi to Kinshasa for some concerts with Skol and Quartier Latin staying in Europe. Droit Chemin did at the end not come out on the 15th May. The release of the album was the delayed to the 10th June. With then Fally getting alot of contracts and having problems about choicing for himself or for Quartier Latin with himself choicing. While he agreed with Koffi to follow Quartier Latin's schedule and that after that he would give him some free weeks to let him promote Droit Chemin in solo-concerts by giving him some Quartier Latin-musicians. Then some days before the release of the album problems started. Koffi Olomide was angry to hear that David Monsoh was the excucitive producer of his album, while they had a big conflict and that he didn't participate. Then there was a moment that Fally was furious on Koffi. Because Koffi's advocate tried to forbid the release of Droit Chemin,by saying that he hasn't the right to release that album, since that he have a contract with Quartier Latin. With Fally being very angry saying in private that he would attack Koffi in an interview. Koffi Olomide himself said in private at his hotelroom in Brussels at it's better for Fally to leave the band, after hearing that he received more than 40.000 euro's. After performing at Bouya Mayola's concert in Brussels, he started missing concerts. He prefered giving a playback in Paris, while Quartier Latin was performing at Elysee Montmarte. Then Koffi Olomide tried to bring the peace back in the band by giving to two meetings in a day, since that Ferre wasn't participating in concerts anymore since a month. But nothing special happened. After that Koffi went Quartier Latin to Abidjan without Fally and Fallygoing on his own to Kinshasa and performing then in Brazzaville, Libreville with ith then a war starting. Fally used ghostwriters. Fally is not a big songwriter. He wrote just 2 songs on his own but with help of his friends. All Congolese musicians use ghostwriters that not a secret. It started already back in the days of Luambo Makiadi and Tabu Ley. Many songs of Tabu Ley for example were songs written by his guitarist Faugus and his singer Paul Ndombe (who his Baby Ndombe's father).
Quote from: Manzambi94 on April 17, 2018, 12:59About Ci golese ghostwriters, you have got to understand that level of culture and lyrics in general due to difficult conditions in Congo has decreased so guys like Fally, Ferre, Koffi, Werra use songwriters who will never reach level of Luambo, Tabu etc. Not because mainly of ignorance but because lower conditions bring lower motivations.It’s a tad insulting to have Koffi mentioned among the other names you listed. He initially made a name for himself being a renowned lyricist/ghostwriter and helping Wemba rejuvenate the quality of his rhumbas in the early 80’s when he started to struggle. Even Simaro calls him one of the best songwriters ever. It’s after he proved himself as a solo artist and after multiple albums he became open to songwriters. Whereas Ferre, Fally, Wemba, and Werra used songwriters from day 1 Personally, if you can’t compose your own song and sing it (consistently) then you are not an “artist complet”, but it doesn’t matter nowadays since there are so many willing songwriters ready to present a rhumba or générique composition to an artist for some money.