The cohesion between Bizima and Patou was so strong that it feels strange to hear Bizima animating alone. I hadn’t seen the late Noddy or Lidjo Digital. I believe that they were still in Brazzaville with the dancers. El Paris received their visas on the last minute and had to quickly buy plane tickets to arrive in Paris on the same day as the event, which caused some artists to miss the event.
6:27 min I wonder why they put up fences. It would have been better if they had removed the fences and asked the audience to come closer to the stage. Now, it looked as if the whole hall was empty, because the cameraman was mostly filming the stage and the area in front of it, where nobody was standing.
(second video from 4:13 min) looks like late Loris la Congolais never missed any event in Paris
(second video from 19:40 min) did Marie Paul wanted Bizima to do Doukoure’s role of dancing with the singers by calling him ?
I don’t believe that Marie Paul would have sung Ricoco on the same stage, if the event ook place in 2026. A few months before the show, Ricoco had attacked Marie Paul in an interview. If it wasn’t Frida, then it must have been people in Paris who pressured Marie Paul into singing with Ricoco. It were the last years that people in Europe had some influence. Back then, many people who had already spent 20 years or more in Europe were frustrated with those who had only recently arrived but became too close to musicians.
Artists like Papa Wemba and Koffi Olomidé have often said that they were inspired by Tabu Ley. But when it comes to the artist who truly became the heir to the Fiesta and Soum-Djoum styles that Tabu Ley used to make, I would say it is Marie Paul. I like the way he sampled songs by Tabu Ley and Pepe Kalle towards the end of Zulu 21 and Fidélité Sens Unique
