I didn't see Lofombo at the concert I'm guessing he was in hospital.

I didn't see Lofombo at the concert I'm guessing he was in hospital.

He's there at 31:56 min with the glasses. Lofombo got shot in 1998 not long before Pepe Kalle's death

Oh I didn't even notice because the camera was far lol I thought he got shot in 97.

The public seems not to be impressed. The Congolese public used to one of the most difficult public to impress. Seeing the intro of Shabani Records, made me wonder why never thought about releasing them once again on DVD or nowadays to put it on youtube. Couldn't be that busy with his tv-channel Congoweb television, being the one who helped Fally Ipupa to start his solo career, producing Manda Chante's 3th album, etc.


What happened to Amstel Beer in Congo DR ? What made quit, was Congo it to difficult to settle their product there ? From 1997 to 2000 they used to sponsor many concerts. What I don't understand is the way artists being sponsored by Unibra (Skol) and Bralima (Priimus) performing for them, while artists of Unibra performing for products of Bralima risk to see their contract being cut and vice-versa.

Oh I didn't even notice because the camera was far lol I thought he got shot in 97.

He got shot in 1998 just before the RCD-rebellion started. He was victim of the Tutsi-soldiers based in Kinshasa being mad and shooting at the population, because of a conflict between James Kabarebe and Laurent Desire Kabila. Kabarebe was not being happy that Kabila was replacing many people in the army with those having a background from Katanga. The incident led to many deaths, injured people and Lofombo was among them. Not long after it, Laurent Desire Kabila would fire James Kabarebe from the army and order all Rwandan and Ugandan officers to get out within 48h from DR Congo and it started a new war in DR Congo. James Kabarebe went to Rwanda and with the Rwandan army they invaded Congo. They almost got Kinshasa, but LD Kabila still stayed in power because of Angola's and Zimbabwe's intervention.

The public seems not to be impressed. The Congolese public used to one of the most difficult public to impress. Seeing the intro of Shabani Records, made me wonder why never thought about releasing them once again on DVD or nowadays to put it on youtube. Couldn't be that busy with his tv-channel Congoweb television, being the one who helped Fally Ipupa to start his solo career, producing Manda Chante's 3th album, etc.


What happened to Amstel Beer in Congo DR ? What made quit, was Congo it to difficult to settle their product there ? From 1997 to 2000 they used to sponsor many concerts. What I don't understand is the way artists being sponsored by Unibra (Skol) and Bralima (Priimus) performing for them, while artists of Unibra performing for products of Bralima risk to see their contract being cut and vice-versa.

I'm searching the Sankai Cadence videos of King Kester Emeneya and Zaïko Langa Langa those videos are rare.

There are some extracts o it on youtube. I am also looking for that video. Gessan Sakoko claims to participated to this concert as singer

Thanks, I seen the extracts already but it doesn't have the part where Kester Emeneya presented Petit Prince and the songs Sango Mabala Comission and Okosi Ngai Mfumu.

Really? I didn't see Gessan Sakoko singing with them.

Or maybe he lied because Congolese singers are masters of that. In one of his many interviews he did when leaving Wenge BCBG, he said that he spend like 2 weeks in Victoria Eleison, claiming that Emeneya used to praise him much and that he sung at Palais du Peuple with them. But the decided to leave at the moment Victoria Eleison had to perform at Stade des Martyrs the next day. He didn't want to give the reason during that interview.

Going back to the topic. It's crazy how trends and the time change. Back then giving public open air-concert wasn't a big deal like it would become from 2001. It was more about giving VIP concerts at Intercontinental, Hotel Memling, Palais du Peuple and Cinemax. Even performing at bars like Vis-a-Vis, Kimpwanza, Nsimba Fils in Ndjili, Moto na Moto abongisa in Bandal, Zeka Bar, Couloir Madiokoko, etc. was more important. Looking back at it, it's sad that it doesn't have anymore, seeing the way how our music started by performing at bars during the era of Wendo going through that of Grand Kalle, Franco, Tabu Ley, Zaiko, Viva La Musica and Choc Stars to that of Wenge 4x4. The period of 2001-03 was really a turining point for concerts in Kinshasa. Now nothing of them as any importance, nor public open air concerts, nor concerts at bar and even vip-concerts. It's all about performing abroad.

Time has changed it seems back then they played for pleasing people instead of worry filling a big crowd.