Author Topic: INTERVIEW OF FORMER BASSIST OF BIG STARS GUY WANZAMBI  (Read 141 times)

archos on: August 30, 2026, 19:40

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He talked about how he started in the 80's  playing bass with werrason and motingia and ficarré on lead before all of them(except werra) made it to big groups,how he did session work at bobongo with alain makaba burkina faso and so on,playing in wake up of koffi and wemba on alain makaba's demand but his name removed from the list for calling koffi " petit",he talked about how big stars members tried to remove defao from president role and let djo poster continue as the leader ...
he talked about gatho beevans who was his classmate along with rocky blanchard miantezolo and how he played on the classic azalaki se awa without gatho knowing and reveals that its gatho himself who played those highlighted keyboards of the song while alnzimbi played the "rhythm keyboard"
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Mfumu Vata #1 on: August 30, 2026, 23:37

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Must be terrifying, preparing the first offficial concert of your band, but your mother passing away just a few days before it. Didn't it create problems and speculations within the family of Defao ? Looks like Defao was also stingy. Now I see why Defao disbanded Big Stars when coming back from Angola. Was it the trip they did without Djo Poster and  led to his departure ? How many times did Defao disband Big Stars lol ? I wonder who the artist was that snitched Guy Wa Nzambi about firing Defao and putting Djo Poster as president.

I didn't like how Willy Kayembe cut Guy off, when he was about to explain how he got into Europe. Because he said that after joining Quartier Latin briefly, Defao left him behind for Europe. Defao wasn't smart by saying immediately that he would not travel the following Europe-tour while being in Europe. He should have used Koffi's tactic by not saying anything and doing 12 on him in Kinshasa.

It would have boosted Guy Wa Nzambi alot if he was credited for his work on Wake Up. Willy should have asked him on which songs he played. All journalists were distracted. It's a shame that nobody asked him the origin of his stage name "Wa Nzambi". I always thought that he was from Kisantu, as Defao was hyping as "Guy Wa Nzambi mo Kisantu", only knowing from this interview that he's from Eastern Congo