question by 96 was koffi seen as a legend ?

question by 96 was koffi seen as a legend ?

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No, he had still a long way to go. Not even Papa Wemba was considered a legend at that time. People saw Koffi as crazy for ignoring Papa Wemba's contribution to his career and for having conflicts with him (not in this interview), since that Koffi started to gain serious recognition from the Congolese public around 1991/92

Koffi had success during the periods 1978-1979, 1985-1986 and from Dieu Voit Tout in 1987, starting a streak of success without downs. However, he wasn't yet seen as a massive star like Papa Wemba or King Kester Emeneya at the time. It was with the album Koweit Rive Gauche that he truly achieved widespread success and it was then that people began to respect him. From that period the press started even to compare him with Papa Wemba. His success only grew bigger with the albums Noblesse Oblige and V12. Quartier Latin also contributed significantly to his success with their albums Pas de Faux Pas and Magie. The beefs with Zaiko and Papa Wemba, who were first seen as suicide to his career, also played a role in his rise.

Although his label Next Music/Sono releasing a compilation-album of his hits, titled Legend (la plus grande star de la musique zairoise moderne) in 2002, Congolese people still didn’t see him as a legend. He hadn’t yet reached 20 years of uninterrupted fame and was often in conflict with the bandleaders of Clan Wenge, which caused some people to withhold the respect he deserved, despite his performances at places like Olympia, Zenith, and Bercy. It wasn’t until after Abacadabra that Congolese people began to slowly consider Koffi Olomide a legend, a time that also coincided with Ferre and Fally another dimension of fame and preparing Boite Noire & Power. The same King Kester Emeneya, who was preparing This Is Me at the time

No, he had still a long way to go. Not even Papa Wemba was considered a legend at that time. People saw Koffi as crazy for ignoring Papa Wemba's contribution to his career and for having conflicts with him (not in this interview), since that Koffi started to gain serious recognition from the Congolese public around 1991/92

Koffi had success during the periods 1978-1979, 1985-1986 and from Dieu Voit Tout in 1987, starting a streak of success without downs. However, he wasn't yet seen as a massive star like Papa Wemba or King Kester Emeneya at the time. It was with the album Koweit Rive Gauche that he truly achieved widespread success and it was then that people began to respect him. From that period the press started even to compare him with Papa Wemba. His success only grew bigger with the albums Noblesse Oblige and V12. Quartier Latin also contributed significantly to his success with their albums Pas de Faux Pas and Magie. The beefs with Zaiko and Papa Wemba, who were first seen as suicide to his career, also played a role in his rise.

Although his label Next Music/Sono releasing a compilation-album of his hits, titled Legend (la plus grande star de la musique zairoise moderne) in 2002, Congolese people still didn’t see him as a legend. He hadn’t yet reached 20 years of uninterrupted fame and was often in conflict with the bandleaders of Clan Wenge, which caused some people to withhold the respect he deserved, despite his performances at places like Olympia, Zenith, and Bercy. It wasn’t until after Abacadabra that Congolese people began to slowly consider Koffi Olomide a legend, a time that also coincided with Ferre and Fally another dimension of fame and preparing Boite Noire & Power. The same King Kester Emeneya, who was preparing This Is Me at the time

Would you consider Fally Ipupa and Ferre Gola legends? They're almost twenty years in as solo artists with uninterrupted success from albums to albums, they've performed at similar or bigger venues than their mentors, and they've got signature style that younger talent cite as an influence.

No, he had still a long way to go. Not even Papa Wemba was considered a legend at that time. People saw Koffi as crazy for ignoring Papa Wemba's contribution to his career and for having conflicts with him (not in this interview), since that Koffi started to gain serious recognition from the Congolese public around 1991/92

Koffi had success during the periods 1978-1979, 1985-1986 and from Dieu Voit Tout in 1987, starting a streak of success without downs. However, he wasn't yet seen as a massive star like Papa Wemba or King Kester Emeneya at the time. It was with the album Koweit Rive Gauche that he truly achieved widespread success and it was then that people began to respect him. From that period the press started even to compare him with Papa Wemba. His success only grew bigger with the albums Noblesse Oblige and V12. Quartier Latin also contributed significantly to his success with their albums Pas de Faux Pas and Magie. The beefs with Zaiko and Papa Wemba, who were first seen as suicide to his career, also played a role in his rise.

Although his label Next Music/Sono releasing a compilation-album of his hits, titled Legend (la plus grande star de la musique zairoise moderne) in 2002, Congolese people still didn’t see him as a legend. He hadn’t yet reached 20 years of uninterrupted fame and was often in conflict with the bandleaders of Clan Wenge, which caused some people to withhold the respect he deserved, despite his performances at places like Olympia, Zenith, and Bercy. It wasn’t until after Abacadabra that Congolese people began to slowly consider Koffi Olomide a legend, a time that also coincided with Ferre and Fally another dimension of fame and preparing Boite Noire & Power. The same King Kester Emeneya, who was preparing This Is Me at the time

Would you consider Fally Ipupa and Ferre Gola legends? They're almost twenty years in as solo artists with uninterrupted success from albums to albums, they've performed at similar or bigger venues than their mentors, and they've got signature style that younger talent cite as an influence.

They’re definitely legends, they’ve been solo for 20 years but have been in the scene for over 25 years and let’s be honest they’ve both had longer runs on top than Jb and Werra did.

Yeah they look like they could confortably go at least till mid 50's before feeling any pressure of generational switch,their supposed heirs innoss and mawete had a rather quick rise to big money and then family matters kicking in so they have kind of lost the pace they were coming at,and in the full rumba scene their supposed heirs heritier and fabregas aswell prefer living in the shadow of people but with the ego of seeing themselves as neymar and suarez to CR7 and messi that fally and ferre are while they are becoming more like a bale or a griezmann living on past hype at some point

I feel like Werrason wasn't giving the 100% anymore after Sous Sol.  I also think that the concert-ban in Europe had some contribution for Werrason to slow down.  Werra's career is not really centered around himself like Koffi, JB, Ferre Gola and Fally, otherwise I could have released multiple solo-albums in the years that Maison Mère was hot instead of the many EP's and group albums

About JB Mpiana, I felt that he wasn’t taking music seriously anymore during the Anti-Terro era. He could have done so much more. It’s true that the five-year Schengen ban had a big impact, but he still could have done more. After Quel est ton problème, I had some hope for a change in his career, but it never happened

I feel like Werrason wasn't giving the 100% anymore after Sous Sol.  I also think that the concert-ban in Europe had some contribution for Werrason to slow down.  Werra's career is not really centered around himself like Koffi, JB, Ferre Gola and Fally, otherwise I could have released multiple solo-albums in the years that Maison Mère was hot instead of the many EP's and group albums

About JB Mpiana, I felt that he wasn’t taking music seriously anymore during the Anti-Terro era. He could have done so much more. It’s true that the five-year Schengen ban had a big impact, but he still could have done more. After Quel est ton problème, I had some hope for a change in his career, but it never happened

Why did Werrason decide to make Sous Sol an EP instead of an group album? Did he not have enough time to prepare songs for a full length album? I don't recall him doing a lot of dates in Europe in the months prior to the album's released compared to after, so it's possible the album was recorded quickly.

After Témoignage, there were plans to record a group album to showcase the talents of the team that had worked on Témoignage. However, Bralima wanted  Werrason to record a single to promote their product Primus. This led Werrason  decide to record  an EP of three songs, which originally included the track Héritier (Confession Intime), an early version of Sous-Sol, where Celeo barely participated in the animation along with another song.

Because Adjani and Didier Lacoste were complaining about not yet having any songs  in Wenge Maison Mère, Werrason decided to remove Héritier’s song from the EP tracklist, save it for the future group album and instead include Médicament by Lacoste and Siméon by Adjani ( for some reasons Werrason decided to credit that one to himself).

The success of Celeo’s cri “A lava na mayi ya lumpemba” made Werrason ask Flamme to modify Sous-Sol into the version we know today. Werrason also wanted to give a preview of the world album he was planning to record, which he initially wanted to call Arche de Noé. This led him to add Enfant Mystère and give Flamme the opportunity to include Serre-Moi Fort.

The group album didn’t yet have a title and during the European tour, Werrason came up with the idea to name it Temps Présent, which was planned for summer 2007. However, the departures of Flamme Kapaya and Jitrois made Werrason remove their songs and with the rise of Café Roum, Deplick, and Fabregas in Kinshasa, he renamed the album Mayi ya Sika and reworked several tracks. The album got finally released in June 2008

The difference is that Koffi is a complete musician (songwriter, guitarist, singer, arranger) whereas Fally and Ferre are merely singer that buy compositions from El Dorado, Djodjo Lina, Pida Star ect.

both do play instruments in studio though,fally has become a quite good enough guitarist to play on all his albums almost and ferre plays percussion on several album,but like you said dance aside koffi is a much more complete profile