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PEPE: THE LITERAL AND FIGURATIVE GIANT OF AFRICAN MUSIC

January 14, 2025 - 05:45 PM PEPE: THE LITERAL AND FIGURATIVE GIANT OF AFRICAN MUSIC. The year is 1991, and Pepe Kalle is visiting Tanzania. He has a scheduled show in Arusha, and the team is traveling around Arusha in a taxi, marveling at the picturesque aura of the town situated at the foot of an inactive volcanic Mt. Meru, a town known for its vibrant nightlife. An enchanted passenger is engaged in a hearty banter about the town, a conversation that happens in Lingala. The driver is female, in itself a rare occurrence, but that's not all. There is something more about her. Ordinarily, Tanzanians don't speak Lingala, although the reverse is true: most Congolese speak Swahili, especially those from Eastern Congo, as......

SHIDA ZA DUNIA LYRICS

January 13, 2025 - 04:07 PM Rafiki yangu alikuja nyumbani,Kunielezea shida Fulani,Ati alifukuzwa kazini na hajui atafanya nini,Mke wake amemutoroka,Rafiki zake wanamcheka,Shida amepata nyingi amechoka,Dunia anajuta.Acha kulia, shida za dunia,Hebu tulia mungu anakujali pia,Acha kulia, shida za dunia,Hebu tulia mungu anakujali pia,Maisha mwendo ni pole,Ukipata shida leo usikonde,Wengi wako kama wewe usijali,Acha kulia ni Maisha makali,Tazama kwanza uone kesho,Usikonde uwape kichekesho,Maisha itakuwa na matatizo,Uombe mungu, atakupa uwezo,Acha kulia, shida za dunia,Hebu tulia mungu anakujali piaAcha kulia, shida za dunia,Hebu tulia mungu anakujali pia,Hizo shida usifikirie uko nazo pekee yako,Labda mungu anakuletea......

CHAMELEONE DOWN, BUT NOT OUT!

January 11, 2025 - 06:53 AM Ugandan musician Joseph Mayanja, known by his stage name Jose Chameleone, was flown to the USA last week for further treatment. He had been rushed to the hospital in critical condition. The musical sensation, with over 13 albums in a career spanning two decades, had been diagnosed with chronic pancreatitis, a condition often caused by excessive alcoholism. His health has deteriorated significantly in recent months. Guests, including the country's president Yoweri Museveni, fellow musicians, and celebrities, had been visiting the Kampala hospital to express their solidarity with the ailing icon. The state catered for his flight abroad, recognizing his monumental status in the......

LAYILE LYRICS WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION

January 09, 2025 - 04:42 PM ENGLISH TRANSLATION 1) Layile booked for an unplanned holiday for meFor me to go to restThis will allow him toPlay with othersAh play with others (women) 2) Layile shared my loveLayile betrayed my love ye ye, ah Layile ehWhat can I do 3) Layile booked for an unplanned holiday for meFor me to go to restThis will allow him toPlay with othersAh play with others (women) 4) Layile shared my loveLayile betrayed my love ye ye, ah Layile ehWhat can I do (FRANCO) 5) Layile, how come you’ve betrayed our loveWhile you send me and the kids on holidayYou also plan to stay partyingWith other women 6) You’ll take me and the kidssend us to cold countriesYou know I suffer from......

Ndaya by Mpongo Love Lyrics With English Translation

January 09, 2025 - 06:00 AM NDAYA BY MPONGO LOVE Nayebaki iiih,(I just knew that,)Suka se kotingama eeh,(At last, my marriage will hold,)Ya ngai na mobali na ngai iih,(My marriage with my husband,)Pantalo mokaba mama aaah,(We will stick together like a belt on a trouser,my dear rival,)Tobalana kosukisa bilobela ango ya bato ooh,(We got married to end the peoples' idle talk/gossips,)Likwela ya ngai na cherry suka lilita ma aah.(This is my marriage with my sweetheart, only death will do us part, my dear rival.)Nayebaki iiih,(I just knew that,)Suka se kotingama eeh,(At last, my marriage will hold,)Ya ngai na mobali na ngai iih,(My marriage with my husband,)pantalo mokaba mama aaah,(We will stick together like a belt on......

WHAT CHANGED THE ORIGINAL CONGOLESE MUSIC STYLE.

January 08, 2025 - 09:00 PM WHAT CHANGED THE ORIGINAL CONGOLESE MUSIC STYLE. The recent trend of increasingly programmed music over live instrumentation is because it's cheaper to record and release. Half the battle of making music today is done when you can program percussions, horn sections, and synths on the keyboard. Where back in the day, you had to factor in whether live horns would sync well with the guitars, keyboards, and drums. This means that music composition was the foundation of song creation, as opposed to improvising melodies on a keyboard or guitar partition and then stretching them out into songs. In order to conserve cost, rehearsals were constant and music compositions of some of our......

MBARAKA MWINSHEHE MWARUKA

January 08, 2025 - 02:00 PM MBARAKA MWINSHEHE MWARUKA “Hakuna kitu kibaya sana humu duniani kama shidaHaichagui mtu siku wala miaka oh oh ohHaina katu taarifa shida wengi shida bila hodiSi mtoto wala mkubwa wote shida...Kila siku shida Shida haiishi hadi siku ya mwisho oh ohh...” These are the lyrics from one of the many songs that used to be played early in the mornings on the Voice of Kenya radio, now KBC. The man behind these immortal words was Tanzanian singer Mbaraka Mwaruka Mwinshehe, who died 38 years ago. Mbaraka was born on June 27, 1944, and was the second born in a family of 12 children. His father, Mwinshehe Mwaruka, was a clerk at one of the big sisal farms in Tanzania. But the early......

FRANCO : OKJ ALL TIME GREATEST COMPOSER

January 08, 2025 - 12:15 PM 'Babotoli ya malili', the air conditioner has been confiscated. This is a line from Franco's hit "Mokolo Tonga," known as "Taileur." The other line is: "Okomi komona pasi ya bangungi, okomibeta mbata na nzoto." The second line, translated, means you will be slapping yourself like everyone else to chase marauding mosquitoes from your face. The song was composed while Franco was incarcerated at Makala prison for composing and recording songs that were considered explicit. He was chiding Kengo Wa Dondo, who had been the country’s attorney but had since been fired from the job. The song is just a tip of the iceberg in a bid to illustrate who was the master composer at OK Jazz.......

LOSAMBO LYRICS WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY EXTRA MUSICA

January 07, 2025 - 02:27 PM IntroLosambo ya Extramoto soki nanu akufi te koseka ye teif a man has not passed away don't laugh at himtata nzamne yo ka losambo eh , losambo losamboChorus:Tata Nzambe yoka losambo ya bana God, Father Listen to the prayers of your sonstolamukaka na tongo po toluka la vieThey get up every morning to look for a better lifetolamukaka na tongo po tomeka nzoto They get up to try to get a better lifepesa nguya papa po tokaka yangoGive them power in order to make them succeed1st soloah nzambe tata yo okeli ngayiOh god you created me after all the things on the earthyo opesi moto mayele koleka biloko binso okelaYou gave the man intelligence more than all things you createdpona nini ngayi te?......

THE FAKE COUP

January 06, 2025 - 04:00 PM COLONEL BANGALA This is Leopoldville Governor Alphonse Bangala , immortalized in Franco's 1966 song 'Colonel Bangala' which has superb sax by Verckys, equally superb soloing by Franco and Franco himself sings as he is backed by Mujos and Boyibanda. President Mobutu faked a coup to gauge who was loyal and who was not, among his top government officials. The fake coupe was headed by Bangala who recruited and sought the support of several cabinet ministers, politicians, military guys, and other state officials. Those who fell for the trick were executed among them former Prime Minister Evariste Kimba, together with three cabinet members, Jerome Anany (Defence Minister), Emanuel Bamba......

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PEPE: THE LITERAL AND FIGURATIVE GIANT OF AFRICAN MUSIC

SHIDA ZA DUNIA LYRICS

CHAMELEONE DOWN, BUT NOT OUT!

LAYILE LYRICS WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Ndaya by Mpongo Love Lyrics With English Translation

WHAT CHANGED THE ORIGINAL CONGOLESE MUSIC STYLE.

MBARAKA MWINSHEHE MWARUKA

FRANCO : OKJ ALL TIME GREATEST COMPOSER

LOSAMBO LYRICS WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY EXTRA MUSICA

THE FAKE COUP

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PEPE: THE LITERAL AND FIGURATIVE GIANT OF AFRICAN MUSIC

SHIDA ZA DUNIA LYRICS

CHAMELEONE DOWN, BUT NOT OUT!

LAYILE LYRICS WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Ndaya by Mpongo Love Lyrics With English Translation

WHAT CHANGED THE ORIGINAL CONGOLESE MUSIC STYLE.

MBARAKA MWINSHEHE MWARUKA

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