the quality of the Everybody is better, but I prefer Live in Paris because of the sebene and the animations of Code Niawu, Washifa & Emeneya. I liked also the drumming skills of Djudju-chet Luvengoka in that album but Everybody everything is done with the computer and keyboards even the sebenes. So I can't understand why Congolese people weren't liking Everybody. I think that the album would have been better received if he released the Live in Paris-version instead of the original-everybody album. Emeneya went really quiet after Everybody until he released Pas de Contact. With people saying that he was finished, that his nkisi of Kikwit were expired, that Victoria Eleison was death and Koffi mocking him in the press. He tried to make a big comeback with Succes Fous which was in the style that Congolese people were liking but it also not well received because of people wanting to hear animations from atalaku's like in the albums of Wenge and Quartier Latin instead of Emeneya doing all the animations by himself.

Out of the two versions the live version is my favourite I wish it was promoted more.

Out of the two versions the live version is my favourite I wish it was promoted more.

It was well promoted and better received than Everybody. The VHS sold very well. It was one of the most sold VHS's of 1995.

On the vhs I noticed that they're two concerts recorded in LSC.

yeah, one was a private concert for his staff, family and friends to present Everybody. I don't remember if it was one week before the release or after. The other concert was to present his then new album Everybody to the public. I think that they released the VHS and cd 2 years later to bring him back to the spotlights after having disappeared for a long time the cd/casette-market. Giving sometimes here and there concerts in Paris, London and Brussels. In my opinion he had already to return to Kinshasa when he released Everybody. He had lost all his fans to Wenge Musica and Wenge EL Paris. Some became fans of Papa Wemba who was settled in Paris but was returing many times to Kinshasa for concerts with Reddy, Stino, Joly satisfy their public by releasing solo-albums.

I don't understand why Emeneya never admitted he was going down in success.

Was Everybody was originally planned to be released in 1992?

Was Everybody was originally planned to be released in 1992?

No, it was planned for 1993 and got released in May 1993.


In 1992 they made Reponse Ya Polo Kina. There is a video of Marie Paul talking when they returned to Paris after their second trip to Kinshasa with him & Manda Chante having bought songs in Kikwit for their next album. But Emeneya coming then and asking about those songs with Marie Paul forcing Manda Chante to give Emeneya the song Nzila Velele. With some others songs of Marie Paul being given to Emeneya (Litanie of Succes Fous for example).

I don't understand why Emeneya never admitted he was going down in success.

hahaha are you crazy. We are Congolese people not Europeans or Americans. If you will admit that you'are finished then it's over for you. You never get the chance from the public to prove yourself. The public of Kinshasa is very difficult to convice. Also don't forget that Emeneya is a true yankee. Which yankee will admit in public that he's going done. You must to be a real yuma to say that.

So the song Nzila Velele was originally written from people in Kikwit?

I don't understand why Emeneya never admitted he was going down in success.

hahaha are you crazy. We are Congolese people not Europeans or Americans. If you will admit that you'are finished then it's over for you. You never get the chance from the public to prove yourself. The public of Kinshasa is very difficult to convice. Also don't forget that Emeneya is a true yankee. Which yankee will admit in public that he's going done. You must to be a real yuma to say that.

Fair point us Congolese people like to criticize people.

So the song Nzila Velele was originally written from people in Kikwit?

Yeah, alot songs of Emeneya, Marie Paul, Lidjo Kwempa, Stino Mubi, Paul Ndombe and Tabu Ley were songs coming from Kikwit. Even gospel songs. Dernier Sommeil d'Amour which Marie Paul sung for example is a old song coming from Kikwit. Emeneya used to sing that with Lidjo Kwempa when they were studying in Kikwit back in the early 70's.

I'm surprised that song is 40 years old.

Pas de Contact was released in 1995 or 1996 ? It was also a flop wasn't it ? Hiw Polo Kina was received in Kinshasa ? you told me that this album was well received in 1992 in Europe so what about Kin ?