In the picture, we see Lengi Lenga, Yvon Kahamba on Bass, Rogers Musumani on drums and the person playing the shaker is possibly Somono or Le Beau who used to play for Bimi's band back in 1991.
Btw for Werrason's interview, I don't understand why he's making a big deal about Koffi wanting him to become the chef d'orchestre of Quartier Latin for 50.000 dollars after the Wenge split. Who would have imagined in that era that Werrason would be a big leader in the future with the huge succes JB Mpiana had with Feux de l'Amour ?
I think Werra didn't see a future in being another band and I think he had no motivation of doing music after the split.
In my opinion, I think this Maison mere first concert because you got Werra, Didier, Adolphe, Ali Mbonda, Christian Mpewu and Ferre while you got Aimela, Alain Mpela, Patient Kusangila, Titina and Burkina Faso who are spies sent by Blaise Bula and JB Mpiana.
Was Michael Tshendu ever meant to last long with the group? Although he was in the clips, he never had any vocals to any songs from Intervention Rapide Force but Orphelin.
He was with Masion Mere during their European tour, but didn't record a single vocal for Solola Bien. I always thought he was a ngulu disguised as a member of a group, which Papa Wemba was known to do with his band.
Why wasn't Christian Mabanga more patient? He could have easily replaced Didier Masela after Solola Bien, but everything worked out since Mimiche was a great bassist
Hahaha Michael Tshendu wasn't a ngulu lol. You will never ever see ngulu on stage as musicians. If they just arrive in Paris, London or Brussels they start their own business, sometimes they also attend the big event as spectator. Michael Tshendu was a singer for R&B, Zouk, Soul songs in concerts before that the singers of Maison Mere arrives on stage. In the 80s Zaiko also used to have a singer for those rols (I forgot his name).
you can see him sing from 4:03 min
In Wenge Musica 4x4, Alain Makaba & Patient Kusangila were doing that role.
When Wenge Maison Mere was busy with recording Solola Bien, they said that Michael Tshendu would record his own solo album. Zacharie Bababaswe made it clear during the concert of Palais des Sports. But I don't if that album ever got released.
Christian Mwepu was used by Werrason to do nasty things to Didier Masela and ignoring him. Not wanting to give him the bass guitar if he came of stage, etc. and Werrason promising that he would give him two songs on Solola Bien as reward. Because they knew that Masela would leave Maison Mere soon. Then when they came in London they weren't rehearsing his songs and Christian felt betrayed. After that Didier Masela decided to stay in London (kind of left Maison Mere) and they went to Canada. Masela already called his friends there and those people went to beat him. After that they toured the USA and other cities of Canada, but they still weren't rehearsing his songs and Christian himself became also sick. So he decided then to stay in Canada.
I never knew Masela had a dark side like that sending people to beat someone else I thought he was a laidback person.
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