Really sad, I was hoping someone would come to say that it was fake news. But when Johnson Keto posts about someone passing it means that it is true.
I don’t exactly know Eugene Makuta’s biography. But what I know, is that he used to sing in a band from Matadi and when Big Stars came there in 1994 to perform they did the first part. It is there that Defao discovered him and him joining Big Stars. It took a bit time for him to have a place, but he became a key-member when Defao returned alone from the Europe-tour in 1995. Makuta made his name known when did a duet with Defao in the rumba song Pis-Cass from the Amour Interdit album.
In 1997, he participated to the Sala-Noki album where his vocal in Defao’s classic song Sala Noki had alot of succes, him appearing in the clips of that album and the albums that followed Copinage and Tremblement de Terre also helped alot by gaining popularity.
In the album Bana Congo he sung lead in 3 songs (I am not sure if all songs were credited to him). The songs were Faux Croyante, Lomas and Mambu na Tembe. Like most members of Big Stars that went on tour in US, he preferred to settle in UK, when Defao decided to disband Big Stars in 2000.
