https://www.coupsfrancs.com/le-film-de-lassassinat-du-producteur-jean-pierre-saahjps/

The article from arguably the most known in europe cameroonian journalist remy ngono,start with saying given the date it can sound like april fools but when you see the dead body at mortuary in douala you cant doubt it anymore
and he has been assaulted by 5 gangers at home,when they arrived he was not home but rather at a hotel called royal palace surely discussing business and they found his mother in law and his children and they controlled them and make sure  they kept quiet,and hours after when he returned home they jumped on him and killed him and there was already signs earlier on of a threat few times before that day and  when going back home he was closely followed by a motorbike
he had a security staff  from a company but his wife who lives in france had advised him to break the contract
his house was like most houses of wealthy/comfortable people not that easy to enter with high walls and security,but that day one of he then had two "normal" guardians and as if it was all planned the guardian disappeared that day without authorization pretending to be gone to a funeral

O.O the fuck my God what a hell is happening, Sundabass, the daughter of Fi-Carre, JPS Productuin, XXX, Nipsey Hussle died by violent death what is happening to our race man?

Eeeiiii
https://www.facebook.com/116213935071311/posts/3188680724491268/

Even if it wasn't an April fools story, this is too hard to believe. I had an analysis about the musical landscape of 1998 planned out, and I was going to mention him. Maitre Saah was one of the biggest producers of African music during the turn of the millennium, so it's heartbreaking to hear of his tragic fate.

I thought that it was a joke. In the last 5 years we heard alot of crazy stories about him who were false. Like the one of Saudi Arabia. It seems that he had alot of problems.

It would be nice if Werrason and Felix Wazekwa go to Cameroun. Because Jean Pierre Saah contributed alot in their career.

Say what you will about his practices; the man did so much for African music at it's peak. RIP

Man, I afraid who's next

@Matebu

What made JPS production fail? This is the label behind many of the most impactful albums of the late 90s and early 2000s from Wenge Musica Masion Mere, Madilu System, Extra Musica Zangul, Meiway, and many others!

@Matebu

What made JPS production fail? This is the label behind many of the most impactful albums of the late 90s and early 2000s from Wenge Musica Masion Mere, Madilu System, Extra Musica Zangul, Meiway, and many others!

Back in 2003 there was a arrest warrant against Jean Pierre Saah in France. The police suspected him of  being a intermediary of a mafia-group in Miami and using his musiclabel JPS Production as money laundering for his black business. That's why he runaway from France and went to Cameroun. Zaiko, Madilu, Felix Wazekwa, Werrason and co had then to look for other musiclabels.

From Didier Ndenga now this. This is really sad. The picture that comes of him is that when he presents the Disc D'or to Werrason at the double Zenith concert of 2002. 

Sad!!!

@mvulusi96

Damn, I never would of guessed that guy would have criminal connections. He seemed so professional from the way he ran his company, the albums he produced were well recorded with great clips

Guys like Bob Masua, Rigo Makengo and Jimmy Mukelenge used to attack him often in interviews about those connections and said that they are on the same level. Adding that JPS impress those artists by letting them drive lambo's, eating in expensive restaurants, etc. which was part true. Giving them a huge amount of money and letting them signs contract without reading it, discovering then months later that they won't receive royalties because they accepted to give all their rights to JPS lol hahahahahahahaha.

 haha yeah i remember him taking extra musica and maison mere to fouquet's restaurant and georges VI hotel and things like that to make them dream big

@mvulusi96

Has any of our Congolese artists ever charted on the music charts abroad like SNEP? All those people who showed up for Zenith, Olympia, and so forth were commerical consumers of those albums being bought from major distributors.

@mvulusi96

Has any of our Congolese artists ever charted on the music charts abroad like SNEP? All those people who showed up for Zenith, Olympia, and so forth were commerical consumers of those albums being bought from major distributors.

No, no one has ever charted on music charts in Europe. Only Papa Wemba back with his album Emotion in 1995 who was charted in USA and France (because of the song Fa Fa Fa Fa) and who became in 1999 gold in the USA. In 1984 he was also charted in France for the insturment of the song Proclamation who was the soundtrack of the movie Black Mic Mac and Fally Ipupa nowadays with Tokooos and the singles he made with Aya Nakamura, Naza, Keblack and MHD who are French stars. I'm sure that alot have forgotten those songs already.



All those people who showed up for Zenith, Olympia and Bercy were people of the Congolese and African community. Hence why the musicians themselves and the press kept saying that it was "miziki ya ghetto". Also those albums like Loi, Foridoles, Solola Bien, etc. had only succes in the African community of Europe. The music they were doing was/is also commercial engough,sound too African and were to long. That's also why the European/American respects Papa Wemba more than legends like Franco Luambo Makadi, Grand Kalle and Tabu Ley, because he was making music that white-people were liking.



Those events at Zenith, Olympia and Bercy weren't promoted by the European media. It were just big fanclubs and influent people like Photo Joel Mbetenge, Shaguy Sharoufa, etc. mobilizing people for those events. Koffi Olomide tried to get in touch with the French media to let them promote his event at Bercy, because of being the first African artist to perform there. But they were all refusing. The crazy thing is that they suddenly reported the concert on their channels.



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Those musiclabels Sonodisc, JPS Production, Somina, SIPE Production, Syllart Productions weren't major labels or labels who were distributed by the majors (Sony, Universal, BMG, Virgin, etc.). Sonodisc for example was a European label that totally depended on African Music which was pissing Verckys off.