Bravo Ferre Gola. Never in doubt about your musical prowess.I feel for Marchouse and Illunga. I think its bad for team cohesion when your defacto number 2 misses 3 career defining concerts by virtue of visas. It's a lack of leadership by the team and Ferre himself. The visa issue should have been sorted out after the duo missed Addidas Arena legally or use of indirect methods. At the rate we are going no one should be surprised if any of the 2 are lured out of the group.
Congrats to Ferre. This is technically his second Bercy but his first as a solo artist! He now joins the list of Koffi, Werra, Jb, Papa Wemba and Fally (some would include Adolphe on that list but that’s another debate loool).If I’m not mistaken Fally and Ferre are the only two who first performed at Bercy as band members and later returned and performed as band leaders, also their first mystic halls they performed in were Bercy as well.
Quote from: Cavalier Solitaire on April 05, 2026, 09:59Bravo Ferre Gola. Never in doubt about your musical prowess.I feel for Marchouse and Illunga. I think its bad for team cohesion when your defacto number 2 misses 3 career defining concerts by virtue of visas. It's a lack of leadership by the team and Ferre himself. The visa issue should have been sorted out after the duo missed Addidas Arena legally or use of indirect methods. At the rate we are going no one should be surprised if any of the 2 are lured out of the group.that visa issue seems deep i remember 5 months or so ago a guy from an association helping people get visas and papers in france saying that there was at certain levels of power and celebrity a "hidden law" that you have to be forced into a system to get visas like you want and it included some lodges and stuff like thatnow in the "normal life" field one pattern that has been common in past years is congolese people at the foreign ambassies making whatever to not hand you your passport for months,this is the reason why guys like lofombo worship fally these days because they've had multiple visa attempts buried like that for months so getting visa so "easily" now is a miracleand specifically about ferre's case you'll notice its always the guys in the same delegation as marchouse and ilunga who miss out,but then they easily make it to states trips,so they'll sacrifice 10+ guys to pretend its not a personally motivated decision
they will know for example that you have a date set for something but then make sure to deliver your passport back later,this is for example what kickstarted bcbg's multiple europe trip reports from back when the late guys were still alive,or they will not tell you whether you got visa or not so that by the time you need to make a complaint to turn the situation around its too late