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In this video, Zacharie Bababaswe claimes that Adolphe Dominguez performed Olympia on the name of Meiway. I found the situation around Trinita's Olympia always weird. The VHS and DVD got never released on the market and nobody knows the truth about the concert, if it was a succes or not, because the press in that era was very silent about that event compared to his LSC-show 6 months earlier. I remember Archos explaining me in the past that the concert-organistors got threatened by zulu's to not release the video of the concert on the martket.

from 35:35 min

He promised that he would release one day "Les Archives de Zacharie Bababswe", which has footage of rare behind the scenes videos at the big events of Bercy, Zenith and Olympia. But until this day, it got never released. The same about the truth of the split of Wenge in 1997 from 25:15 min, saying that he will say it after 10 years (the interview was made in 2006, but we are now in 2020). He's the thrid or fourth guy who say that it, that it wasn't about money or solo albums, but none of them wants to reveal the truth about it.

producers back then sometimes in order not to pay the whole night they'd negotiate with the hall and another artist or group to perform,example tabou combo of west indies on koffi's first zenith

producers back then sometimes in order not to pay the whole night they'd negotiate with the hall and another artist or group to perform,example tabou combo of west indies on koffi's first zenith

Ahn, I see. The way Zacle was saying it was like to humilate Adolphe. I tought that he wanted indirectly say, that he made mpiaka. That's the bad side of Zacle, because in he same interview he said that Tabu Ley's Olympia hadn't any impact in Kinshasa. But he doesn't know that he on Tabu's arrival there was a big crowd and he performed at Stade de 20 Mai, being received by Mobutu and made a big national tour, with all youngsters of that time dreaming to become like Tabu Ley.

Yes, its true Constant Lomata and Kokar Masakuba used the same tactic when Koffi did his first Olympia, hence why they didnt write his name on the wall of Olympia with red lights , just when the concert was about to start they put a big poster "Sonodisc presente Koffi Olomide & Quartier Latin". Then when other music-promoter saw that it was that easy (back in the days it was to expenive to let someone perform at Olympia & Zenith on a normal way, only majors were able to do that), they were following the same tactic with then JB Mpiana, Werrason, Papa Wemba all performing there. But despite that the French-press still consider Koffi Olomide to be one of the first African to have performed at Olympia and Zenith, they wrote multiple articles about him and even put the album-cover of his Olympia. Sometimes they respect him even more than Tabu Ley.



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I wonder if Kester's staff rented the whole hall when Emeneya performed there or if the direction of Olympia lowered the price to rent the hall. Because King Kester Emeneya was the first to perform at Olympia with those red lights on the front, followed by Fally. Kester used then to mock and attack Koffi years long about that.



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I still want to hear the truth of Bercy, about the way they were renting it and apprenently just performed in the half configuartion of it. Maybe that, that inspired Werrason to do double Zenith, since that the half of Bercy was back in 2000, just 8500 seats, while a double Zenith has more than 12000 spectators. I also wonder if Youssou Ndour and Alpha Blondy were performing in the same configuration or bigger, since that they had a bigger status in France and Europe then Congolese artists, because of the world-music they were making.