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THE SOUKOUS GIANT

November 27, 2024 - 04:27 PM 'Eza bolingo, eloko mosusu te', Mfumu Kimbangu, a rumba music aficionado and a radio presenter with Kenya's state broadcaster sang this line to this writer with a heavy baritone, mimicking the voice of Djouna Mumbafu of Empire Bakuba, in response to the question on the position of the band, in Congolese music. Mfumu went ahead and explained how Pepe Kalle who died on November 29th, 1998, revolutionized Congolese rumba, and gave it a whole new direction, resulting in a high-tempo soukous sub-genre, that came to define the fifth generation of Congolese music. In fact, according to him, this was the very first deployment of an atalaku in Congolese music, an aspect that came to define......

ARZONI LYRICS WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION

November 27, 2024 - 12:46 PM ARZONI LYRICS BY OK JAZZ OF LUAMBO MAKIADI FRANCO By @GeorgeOwiti Ba Zairois, maman(People from Zaire)Bo somba abacos na Arzoni(Buy suits at Arzoni)Bo somba abacos na Arzoni(Buy suits at Arzoni)Motongi monene ya Mpoto(A big designer in Europe)Ba Belgicain maman(People from Belgium)Bo somba abacos na Arzoni(Buy suits at Arzoni)Bo somba abacos na Arzoni(Buy suits at Arzoni)Mosoni monene ya Mputu(A big designer in Europe)Ba diplomat, bo tuna abacos na Arzoni(Diplomats, go look for suits at Arzoni)Bo somba abacos na Arzoni(A big designer in Europe)Motongi monene ya Mpoto(A big designer in Europe)Arzoni, Arzoni(Arzoni, Arzoni)Arzoni motongi monene na Africa(Arzoni is a big designer in......

BIOGRAPHY OF EMPIRE BAKUBA

November 24, 2024 - 02:20 PM BIOGRAPHY OF EMPIRE BAKUBA Empire Bakuba is a celebrated Congolese band, formed in 1973; and disbanded in 1998. Core members: "Boeing 737" Kinanga Nanzao (born Congo-Kinshasa, July 6, 1953; guitar), Dilu Dilumona (born Kinshasa, Feb. 15, 1948; vocal), "Doris" Ebuya Lange (born Congo-Kinshasa; guitar), Pepe Kalle(born Kinshasa, Dec. 30, 1951; died Kinshasa, Nov. 29, 1998; vocal), "Papy Tex" Matolu Dode (born Kinshasa, June 28, 1952; vocal). Empire Bakuba was the direct descendant of African Choc, a neighborhood band built around the nucleus of singers Kalle, Dilu, and Papy Tex. Afrisadrummer Seskain Molenga, on the lookout for musicians to help him make surreptitious recordings, introduced......

Mama Africa: Miriam Makeba Legacy Lives on.

November 23, 2024 - 07:05 PM Same date 92 years ago, in Prospect Township, near Johannesburg, South Africa, a South African-born singer who became known as Mama Afrika, Miriam Makeba was born. (died November 10, 2008, Castel Volturno, near Naples, Italy). She is one of the world’s most prominent Black African performers in the 20th century. The daughter of a Swazi mother and a Xhosa father, Makeba grew up in Sophiatown, a segregated Black township outside of Johannesburg, and began singing in a school choir at an early age. She became a professional vocalist in 1954, performing primarily in southern Africa. By the late 1950s, her singing and recording had made her well-known in South Africa, and......

Biography of Mounk'a Pamelo

November 23, 2024 - 03:00 PM Biography of Mounk'a, Pamelo(M'Bemba, Yves André "Pablito") Congolese singer and song writer; born Brazzaville, May 10, 1945; died Brazzaville, Jan. 14, 1996.Brazzaville-born Pamelo quenched his thirst for music in Kinshasa. He loved the sounds of African Jazz, and he made the twenty-minute ferry ride across the Congo River to see them play whenever he could. He had been composing songs in the popular Congolese rumba style, some of which he eventually gave to the band's young new singer Tabu Ley Rochereau. At least one of them, "Paquita," became a hit for the band. Pamelo, then known as "Pablito," was set to join African Jazz himself when the band suddenly split apart. Back......

MADILU BLESSURE D'AMOUR LYRICS WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION

November 23, 2024 - 09:35 AM BLESSURE D'AMOUR (WOUND OF LOVE) LYRICS WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATIONSONG BY MADILU SYSTEM Intro :Ye mei MADILU multi-systemAh yo ndeko ya mwasi, oyé kobeta nga kabakata ya likofiPona kosolola na mobali nayoVraiment oybi te que mobali nayo ayali yaya nanga ya quartierBasalaka boyé te, boni ko? Intro:It's MADILU multi-systemOh, my sister, you gave me a blow on the headBecause I spoke with your husbandYou really do not know that your husband is my big brother in the neighborhoodnoble people don't act in that manner?) Namesana nanga bitumba te mama boni oko kanela nga nasali yo nini ehNgayi ko na boundaka te mamaBanda nabotama nasala nanga ata physique te ohWapi nzoto ya......

THE BAOBAB OF BANGO

November 23, 2024 - 08:19 AM With 70 years on stage, blowing the saxophone and singing to entertain revelers, Mzee Ngala is undoubtedly a musical baobab in the country. The huge fig has survived turbulent winds that brought others down. He has been there and seen it all. He could be the oldest performing musician in the country. That's not all he pioneered a genre, made it popular, and even got it ingrained in the coastal cultures to become an integral part of their social-cultural heritage. It isn't strange to hear a local say 'Harusi si harusi bila Bango', (a wedding is incomplete without bango). We trace the genesis of the musical journey of Mzee Ngala to 1955, when he dropped out of Shimo La Tewa Secondary......

THE MAGNET THAT PULLS

November 22, 2024 - 08:00 PM THE MYSTERIOUS MAGNET THAT PULLS.When veteran Telezaire broadcaster Lukunku Nsampu asked Franco who was on stage, while pointing at the late Mayaula Mayoni, Franco responded by introducing Mayaula as a former footballer who went to Europe for higher education and then converted to be a musician. Lukunku: Amoni mosolo (He's seen money in music?) Franco: Mosolo te. Elengi! (Not money but pleasure) Mayaula Mayoni was born in Kinshasa in 1946 and began his education in the local schools. He was a great footballer and featured for the country's team AS Vita and even the national team Leopards, which played in the FIFA World Cup of 1974. He later joined his father, who was a......

PAPA NOEL: GUITAR GENIUS, NOT A CHRISTMAS STORY

November 22, 2024 - 03:30 PM PAPA NOEL: GUITAR GENIUS, NOT A CHRISTMAS STORY. A lie that's told repeatedly, finally wears a gown and graduates into a truth, especially if an authentic truth is coming out, from any direction of trust. Was the fallen giant of Congolese music, Papa Noel aka Nedule Montswet born on Christmas as oftentimes alleged? No! Papa Noel, popularly known as Ya Nono, especially by his peers, told the Diamant Noir (Black Diamond TV) that he wasn't born on Christmas day of 1940 or of any other year. Of course, no one knows anyone better than themselves, as such, it is very sad to conclude that Papa Noel wasn't born on Christmas. This relegation comes with a domino effect on other popular......

RAIL ON LYRICS

November 20, 2024 - 04:27 PM Rail On lyrics by Papa Wemba Machozi yangu yote namalizika Mie nitalala na nani We unaenda Mie mpaka ni mawazoo ooh ooh mie mpaka ni kuwazawaza we unaenda unaenda kama ile njia yako enda kama ni maisha yako fuata wee dada rail on... Rail on, rail on, rail on, think thats the way Leo paka ni mawazo ooh Hapo unaniacha ohh kama we unaenda we unaenda we unaendaaaaa Rail on, Rail on, Rail on think that's the way x4 Rail on think that's the way... Jabulani Radio Livestream Next Track Track History ...

Jabulani Library

THE SOUKOUS GIANT

ARZONI LYRICS WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION

BIOGRAPHY OF EMPIRE BAKUBA

Mama Africa: Miriam Makeba Legacy Lives on.

Biography of Mounk'a Pamelo

MADILU BLESSURE D'AMOUR LYRICS WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION

THE BAOBAB OF BANGO

THE MAGNET THAT PULLS

PAPA NOEL: GUITAR GENIUS, NOT A CHRISTMAS STORY

RAIL ON LYRICS

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