I don't understand why Ferre fans are getting upset with Blaise, it's really not that serious. I don't see anything wrong with what Blaise said.

It's not that serious, you're right on that aspect. But he was in the wrong. There was no reason to play semantics just to downplay Ferre. He could've just said that Ferre was the last singer they recruited and keep it moving.

These guys are getting too old for their 'Esprit Wenge' stuff.

I don’t see how he was in the wrong, it’s a fact that Ferre joined when tensions were getting high, and Ferre wasn’t singing with them a lot on stage compared to Afande and Aimelia.
Also Blaise rightfully said he wasn’t recruited to replace anybody and he even gave credit to Ferre by saying that Ferre blossomed after the split by going to Maison Mere which is again nothing but facts. The Pentagone clips you don’t see Ferre there but you see Seguin especially in the Generique or Dizoizo clip, but then again you don’t see Masela, Titina, & Tutu in the clips (except for Tutu you see him for like 5 secs in Dizoizo.
Ferre started somewhat getting attention when the nail was in the coffin and the group was literally splitting.
People just get offended so easily nowadays, it’s not like he said he wasn’t a real 4x4 member like Werra and his entourage used to say. I’d have been disappointed with Blaise if he said Ferre wasn’t in the group or he wasn’t a good enough singer which he never said.

They asked him about Ferre joining the group. The answer was simple: yes, Ferre joined us but just before the split.That's it. Keep it short and simple. What's the point ot trying to distort history when everybody know that ferre was the last singer to ever join that group.  "FERRE azalaki na pépinière". What is it supposed to mean? Ferre was an effective member of the group. He's trying to act like the only thing Ferre did was acting as an atalaku. Really?

Blaise is an intelligent dude. He should avoid petty stuff like that. It's useless.

yes i agree that he did not turn it  the good way like adolphe or masela or jb  or even werra himself recently have been doing,which himself actually did in the past even saying once that ferre was junior's favorite singer ,his mistake however is not as stupid as the big shock it created honestly even if blaise deeply believed it which is not the case  it would not take out the steps ferre made on various stages of wenge concerts so i really dont get how people are making a big drama of it,sometimes people have to big mentally strong FOR REAL not just pretend to be yankees then cry about every little thing,and this applies to fans of almost all musicians,the amount of things people could have just let go is uneal

in short he is saying that he started developping taste for music at home with his mother singing in groups of praise for mobutu and when going to buy stuff he was hearing music of viva la musica and co then he made one step further  in school groups until he came in wenge via jb and makaba and he was tested on a song of his own and they iiked it a lot so he joined them and ado asked whether it was not too hard for parents to accept and he said on his case what happened is that his parents were reassured knowing that jb werra and co's parents had a job of high responsability so they would not let their children become thugs like the reputation of musicians suggested
he threatened not to sing in mulolo because of a disagreement with the guys so they put young alain mpela then 17 to sing but his voice was not mature enough yet so he could not fill that role so they had to beg him to come and sing which he did
he said he has never been an official admin but he was just behind the 4 admins as chef of discipline and was asked about tutu caludji's suspension and admitted he did not remember well but for sure it was something wrong so he had to be punished
about salaries he said each of them 6 big names had their salaries depending on their status,then simple members also had a certain hierarchy in their salaries
he talked about how saddam was liking them a lot and giving them money  and then also talked about his sad incident we mentioned above
he also explains whats according to him esprit wenge,respecting everybody but not fearing them,and certainly not letting them bully you and he says he misses those days of wenge 4X4 because there was true love even if today he has doubt whether it was comedy or genuine love given how hard it is for them to be anywhere near as close as in the past
He said that each of them  wenge singers had his particularity and its that diversity of skills which created a big force,and his voice was very present in wenge's music  because he was the first singer to sing in studio he was giving the direction of chorus under coordination of alain makaba then jb werra adolphe would sing next,then in the long run he started doing that "backbone of the chorus" role with alain mpela and aimelia before jb werra and adolphe stepped in,which is why until today its easy for him to reproduce wenge4X4 style of songs since he was the central voice in shaping the chorus,so it would  be easier for him to find people to do kinda like jb,kinda like werra and so on
and he said alain makaba is an absolute genius of music could play every of the instruments sing tenor 1eme and 2eme voix but joked that his only artistic flaw was that he could not dance in sync with the music

Could you expand on that fara fara they had against Zaiko? Where he mentioned that Zaiko a gagna bango.

What was it about?

they had to perform facing zaiko and they perform well very well but did not expect zaiko to have prepared it this well,like werra said in a recent interview they took it like an honor to perform with elders while zaiko took it as competition at all levels,and nioka longo stepped on stage bare feet(which has some symbolism in those spirituality musicians believe in) and they put on a great show
 they had to have a revenge and in order to make a great impression werra and jb went to go and see saddam mobutu to get a tank from army and they got it but then an heavy rain started which made it impossible for concert to happen

they had to perform facing zaiko and they perform well very well but did not expect zaiko to have prepared it this well,like werra said in a recent interview they took it like an honor to perform with elders while zaiko took it as competition at all levels,and nioka longo stepped on stage bare feet(which has some symbolism in those spirituality musicians believe in) and they put on a great show
 they had to have a revenge and in order to make a great impression werra and jb went to go and see saddam mobutu to get a tank from army and they got it but then an heavy rain started which made it impossible for concert to happen

Surely that would have been legendary haha.

Thanks for the background info. 

Werra with the lame excuse. Zaiko was just too hot for them to handle in those days.


Eyi Nkisi, Eyi Magie. LOL.