It was a risky trip, because some of them didn't had papers. But they luckily managed to get back to Paris. There's a point that singer Jose Fataki played rhythm, since that they didn't travel with a rhythm guitarist to Angola. They let guitarist Wajerry play rhythm for a moment (who used to play with Maray Maray's Rumba and was living in Luanda, after that the group disbanded in 1990, trying to get into Europe like many other Congolese people living in Luanda at that time).
This concert later also created years for some polemic between sapeurs. Because of sapeurs arguing that others do not have to talk about Sape, since that they were in Angola at that time and not in Europe, them being in the video when Wemba performed there. Also for those who were deported from Europe, after getting caught for theft in Paris and being there in Luanda, trying to get back to Europe (which was easier at that time than through the Ndjili Airport in Kinshasa)
I don't know what was going on in Angola that year, but alot of bands/singers went there in 1992, Gatho Beevans, Koffi Olomidé (he was so happy about the huge amount of money he gained there. Djonolo claims that he stole his 'aura' there), Wenge Musica, etc. Papa Wemba and his singers (Reddy Amisi, Stino Mubi, Luciano Demingongo, Fafa de Molokai and Jose Fakati) also made alot of money in Luanda. They also met some donors who were known as 'Bana Lunda'. Guys like Daouda Mutshoko, Mukishi 'Mwana Lunda', Pierre Binda, etc. who were all in the diamond business in the at time risky region of Lunda, which Congolese people used to call "Zamba". But at the same time singers like Luciana Demingongo, Fafa de Molokai and Jose Fakati were not happy about the payment they received from Papa Wemba from the concerts they gave in Luanda. Which created some tensions and the guys complaining during the flight to Paris. However, Reddy and Stino remained quiet, because they received a good part from Wemba. These problems would slowly led to the creation of the band 'La Nouvelle Génération de la République Démocratique', later the same year.
I realize now that there is no natural song that is dedicated to Congo, when it was called Zaire. Them all being propaganda songs for Mobutu and/or MPR and not coming from their heart. Like the way JB Mpiana promoted different ethnicities of Congo in the song Zaire or explainging the problems we have, calling for unity, etc. like Emeneya did in Congo Beau Pays, Koffi Olomidé in Affaire d'Etat and Papa Wemba in Congo Moko or the way Tabu Ley praised Congo in Congo Avenir. Maybe the natural songs dedicated to Zaire exist and me never paying attention to, because of to much songs being "djalelo's".
Sometimes I wonder why Tabu Ley never thought about making a modern version of Congo Avenir, after 1997, when he was alive. It was a beautifel song, one of the best dedicated to Congo. He dedicated another song to Congo in 1993, in his album Exil-Ley (back then he was living in Exil), calling the population to stand up and mentioning old politicians, opposants, rivals, etc. (Lumumba, Bolikango, Malula, Kasa-Vubu, Moise Tshombe, Luambo, Kabasele 'aka Grand Kalle) . At that time everything was going wrong and the population being tired of the MPR regime.
It doesn't matter. There's no any difference, because if the boss wants the album group or solo-album to be released in december 2025, they will do all their best to do it. Also before 2006, it were mostly group-albums that were getting released, the boss having 3, 4 or sometimes even 6 songs and the rest being shared between singers. Solo-albums were rare. It was only Koffi who was releasing solo-albums every 2 years with a group-album in between
I don’t believe that Koffi hadn’t enough time for putting Attentat clips together. If there was an artist that was taking recording videoclips seriously in Congo, then it’s Koffi Olomidé (not counting Droit de Veto). I suspect that Koffi was influenced by one or more staffmember to not put his singers alot in videoclips, in order to not give them to much light, having them already promoted alot in the VHS’ of Sur La Route de Bercy & Droit de Veto. Because Attentat was the first solo-album of Koffi where QL-members had alot vocals. They had solo vocals in 6 songs (Victoire, Malanda Ngombe, Number One, Kamutshuma, Cameleon and Nul n’est Parfait) and were not being limited anymore of singing in just 2 or 3 songs in his solo-albums. Witg Koffi just selecting Claudine AC Milan and the new recruited dancers for the clips
In the VHS “Les Clips- 1ère partie”, which had the videosclips recorded in Kinshasa, you had the singers only in the generique. But in the VHS “Mokonzi” which the videoclips recorded after Bercy, you had the singers in all the clips where they had vocals. The only problem being that singers like Soleil Wanga and Spino La Djatence were left behind in Kinshasa and Depitcho having left in the time that they were still recording the clips (only appearing in Nul n’est Parfait and Cameleon), which made guys like Binda Bass, CNN and Champion playbacking and acting like them doing those vocals.
The recordings of Attentat in South Africa were in sept. 1999 just after participating to the Kora Awards as performer. Koffi went 3 or 4 times back to Kinshasa in between. He mostly joined Quartier Latin from France in African countries like Cameroon, etc. Then shortly after the release he came back to do a show to present Attentat at Intercontinental, the famous reconciliation with Werrason, few concerts and fully prepare Bercy and going with the dancers and Mustapha, two or three weeks prior the Bercy-show (Quartier Latin went before him, because Koffi missed the flight twice)
Since the start of Congolese music, there are musicians/singers that are disiplined and mindful about their health and those who are not disiplined. Koffi used exercise alot, but at the same time he had the reputation to drink alot of rum and wiskey. Within the music industry, it was known that Reddy used to use strong drugs (I don't know if he had changed)
The thing is that alot also didn't had the possiblity to go to Europe for health or them being broke and not having the financial possiblity to finance their healthcare and it being already to late when receiving help from politicians and donors or being sent to Europe on the last minute. Another is that in from the 80s many musicians contracted HIV/AIDS, which made many die young
Talking about AIDS. I hVe never understood if the rumors about Franco dying from AIDS were true or not tbh it is really said that he died that way, I wonder if his family and his kids had the same faith of inherit the fortune of his music and money like the Tabu's sons did.
AIDS is a huge tabou in the Congolese community. For family-members it's seen as a huge humilation, if someone openly say that their brother, sister, dad, mother, nephew, niece, son or daughter died of AIDS, since they see it as "malade de la honte". Don't you see how people like to insult or taunt about x or y person having AIDS.
About Franco, I think 10 or 15 years ago a close friend of Franco went to do an interview Thierry Dawa and said that he indeed died from AIDS without naming it (akufa na maladie wana), claiming that a Haitian woman contaminated him with it. I think that I also posted it 15 years ago. 2 years ago Sam Mangwana did a serie of interviews with PAM and in the last episode, he indirectly confirmed that Franco died of AIDS.
Since the start of Congolese music, there are musicians/singers that are disiplined and mindful about their health and those who are not disiplined. Koffi used exercise alot, but at the same time he had the reputation to drink alot of rum and wiskey. Within the music industry, it was known that Reddy used to use strong drugs (I don't know if he had changed)
The thing is that alot also didn't had the possiblity to go to Europe for health or them being broke and not having the financial possiblity to finance their healthcare and it being already to late when receiving help from politicians and donors or being sent to Europe on the last minute. Another is that in from the 80s many musicians contracted HIV/AIDS, which made many die young
That probably explains his temper, Reddy probably uses cocaine lol
Talking about his temper. Denis Lutula recently complained about it in his last interview with Teddy Mola. He said that he Reddy used to insult and shout at them, when they were preparing his show for Bataclan and that Reddy would not even the half of Zenith, if he would play a show over there
Since the start of Congolese music, there are musicians/singers that are disiplined and mindful about their health and those who are not disiplined. Koffi used exercise alot, but at the same time he had the reputation to drink alot of rum and wiskey. Within the music industry, it was known that Reddy used to use strong drugs (I don't know if he had changed)
The thing is that alot also didn't had the possiblity to go to Europe for health or them being broke and not having the financial possiblity to finance their healthcare and it being already to late when receiving help from politicians and donors or being sent to Europe on the last minute. Another is that in from the 80s many musicians contracted HIV/AIDS, which made many die young
In the interview his spokemen Richard Ekambo did, he said that Emeneya had already started to have health issues in 2004 (that it already started around 2000/01) and that he went to a trip to the Canada on his own back in 2005 or 2006 and that he collapsed in his hotelroom. He had also an attack in Kinshasa and when they went to the hospital, they said that he had heart-issues. But instead of going immediatly to Europe, he spent months in Kinshasa and kept performing.
In the same interview Mbuta Likasu asked the spokemen, why the singers didn't return and him explaining that Emeneya's healthissues restarted when the tour came to its end, which why everybody stayed in Europe
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