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THE SOULFUL RESILIENCE OF AFRICAN MUSIC
MEKANISI MODERO DIES IN THE USA
A NEWS ANCHOR WHO ALSO SANG HIS HEART OUT
SUKUMA BIN ONGARO
THE IVORIAN REGGAE SENSATION STILL GOING STRONG
GEORGE FOMBE AKA YAHOOS
RUMBA IT IS; NOT LINGALA
M'BILIA BEL - BEYANGA LYRICS
THE GIFTED SINGER WITH STRIKING CHARM
THE DEATH OF THE MASTERPIECE
MUKABI PAINTED HIS WAY TO GLOBAL RECOGNITION
SHOW ME THE WAY BY PAPA WEMBA LYRICS WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION
FROM STAGE TO PRISON TO STAGE: THE STORY OF NGUZA VIKING
THE LES MANGELEPA FAMILY IN MOURNING
KOFFI OMOMIDE MADE HONORARY CITIZEN OF THE COMMUNE COCODY
SHILINGI YAUA LYRICS BY SIMBA WANYIKA
KABAKA: THE KING OF TWIST
HEALTH CONCERNS FORCE KEITA OUT OF A WEEKND GIG
ELIAKIM ROGO: A NEW VOICE IN LUO RUMBA
KARUBANDIKA LYRICS - ORCHESTRE MAQUIS ORIGINAL
THE SOULFUL RESILIENCE OF AFRICAN MUSIC
MEKANISI MODERO DIES IN THE USA
A NEWS ANCHOR WHO ALSO SANG HIS HEART OUT
SUKUMA BIN ONGARO
THE IVORIAN REGGAE SENSATION STILL GOING STRONG
GEORGE FOMBE AKA YAHOOS
RUMBA IT IS; NOT LINGALA
M'BILIA BEL - BEYANGA LYRICS
THE GIFTED SINGER WITH STRIKING CHARM
THE DEATH OF THE MASTERPIECE
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THEM MUSHROOMS LEGEND
September 23, 2024 - 05:36 AM
IMPORTANT BITS ON THEM MUSHROOMS LEGEND. 1. Teddy Kalanda conceived the idea of composing 'hakuna matata' after he heard a European tourist attempt a conversation while performing in Mombasa in 1980. He made a song from it and recorded it at Polygram in Nairobi while the band had its first tour of the city. 2. Hakuna Matata, could be Kenya's most popular song in the history of music recording in Kenya. The song has been redone by dozens of big names across the globe, the song sold 200,000 thousand copies and the line became so popular that I remember t-shirts emblazoned 'hakuna matata' becoming popular in the late 1980s or thereabouts.A few of the......
TEDDY'S SAX GOES SILENT
September 18, 2024 - 02:09 AM
TEDDY'S SAX GOES SILENT By Jerome Ogola Teddy Kalanda, the founder of the sibling band Them Mushrooms, is dead, aged 73. According to sources, Teddy died yesterday at his home in Kaloleni Giriama, after battling ill-health since 2018, when he became paralysed. At the time of his death the composer, singer, band leader and saxophonist had lost his eyesight and was also confined to a wheelchair. Teddy was the eldest of the Mushrooms quintet, that also included John Katana who plays keyboard, composes and sings, Billy Saro who composes, sings and plays bass. The other were the late George Ziro who died in 2015 and Denis Kalume who died in 1992. George Ziro was a very......
THE GUITAR PHILOSOPHY OF CONGOLESE RUMBA
September 16, 2024 - 04:33 PM
THE GUITAR PHILOSOPHY OF CONGOLESE RUMBA Every ensemble has a specific genre of music they specialize in. It is the type of music the band does that determines the guitar arrangements. Congolese rumba features a minimum of three guitars: the bass, the rhythm, and the solo. The music also features percussions and drums as part of the major ingredients, and saxophones, trumpets, clarinets, trombones, keyboards, additional guitars, and others follow in as spices. The guitars are very easy to differentiate. The bass guitar is played from a special, four-stringed (five, six, or even more in some cases, as is the case with my good friend Sammy Kasule's) instrument. The product is what comes......
KOFFI OLOMIDE EARLY MUSICAL CAREER
September 11, 2024 - 04:58 PM
KOFFI OLOMIDE EARLY MUSICAL CAREER BRIEF Biography of Olomide, Koffi (Agbepa Mumba, Antoine), Congolese singer and band leader; born Kisangani, Congo-Kinshasa, Aug. 13, 1956. Growing up in Kinshasa Olomide played a little guitar and listened to the music of the day including the great Tabu Ley whose style he admired. As a teenager he followed the band Zaiko Langa Langa, eventually striking up a friendship with singer Papa Wemba. By the time Olomide finished secondary school in the late seventies, Wemba had his own band, Viva la Musica. Olomide hung out with the band and contributed backing vocals on a few of its recordings.In 1978, with help from a Kinshasa promoter, Olomide cut a......
LES MANGELEPA - NYAKO KONYA LYRICS WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION
September 09, 2024 - 03:30 PM
LES MANGELEPA NYAKO KONYA LYRICS WITH TRANSLATION Motema mpe mabanzo - My heart [is full of] thoughts (literally: my heart and thoughts)Mabanzo ekotinda ngai namela poison - thoughts will drive me to take poisonSoki nakufi bandeko - when i die, my brothersBokamwa te - don't be surprisedNzela na ngai ya bomoi - my life pathEkei pamba - has been in vainMotema moto moto - my heart is on fireMabala ya bomwana - childish marriagesEleki makambo - are full of problemsBampasi nakomona - i'm in such painNalembi kobondela - [that] I'm weary of asking for helpMotema mpe mabanzo - my heart [is full of] thoughts (literally: my heart and thoughts)Nameka kopesa mokongo - I try to turn my back on itnamemi......
HOW JOSKY FOUND HIS SINGING EQUILIBRIUM
September 08, 2024 - 02:12 PM
JOSKY KIAMBUKUTABy The Monk Josky Kiambukuta, who died on March 7, 2021, in a clinic in Ngaliema, found his musical home at Franco's OK Jazz (OKJ) after two stints with Nico’s African Fiesta Sukisa in the late 1960s and Orchestre Continental in 1971 and 1972. Sampling three songs he performed, one with each of the three bands, clearly shows why OKJ was his ultimate musical home. The first song is Orchestre Continental’s "Mama na Nicole," a composition by Bopol Mansiamina dedicated to his girlfriend. Josky sings lead vocals, backed by Wuta Mayi. The second song is "Bolingo ya Sens Unique," his own composition with African Fiesta Sukisa in 1969, performed as a solo. The......
BIOGRAPHY OF SAM MANGWANA
August 28, 2024 - 07:16 PM
Biography of Sam Mangwana. Superb Congolese singer and songwriter; was born on 21 February 1945 in then Leopoldville, now Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the largest city in that country. His father was a native of Zimbabwe and Sam's mother was a native of neighboring Angola. Mangwana made his professional debut in 1963 with a brief turn at the mic behind Tabu Ley Rochereauin the Congo-Kinshasa rumba band African Fiesta. Almost immediately the wanderlust that would mark his career and earn him the epithet "pigeon voyageur" began to surface. He crossed the Congo River to Brazzaville where he formed a short-lived group called Los Batchichas and worked with......
MORRIS "MORENO" BATAMBA
August 26, 2024 - 09:06 AM
Morris "Moreno" Batamba Wenda, best known for his deep bass voice, was born in Kisangani, Zaire, Congo, in 1955. He quit school in 1971 to join Orchestre Maquis Sasa Bata. He moved to Uganda in 1974 and joined Orchestra Bana Moja of singer Jojo Ikomo. He later moved to Nairobi and the group was renamed Bana Ngenge, the name depended on who was in charge of the group. The group broke up in 1975 and Moreno & Jojo joined Les Noirs. Sadly, Moreno died young too young, in 1993 in Nairobi at just 38 years old, just as he was on the rise to stardom, with an album riding high in the Kenyan charts and a solid fan base throughout East Africa who appreciated his sultry, silky-smooth, bass......
POWERFUL MAN WHO JAILED FRANCO
August 23, 2024 - 01:25 PM
STORY OF A POWERFUL MAN WHO BRUSHED SHOULDERS WITH FRANCO Franco's longest stint in prison was not because of a political song. It happened in 1978 when Franco released two songs on Cassette. The two songs Helene and Jacky were deemed shocking and immoral. He was summoned by the then Attorney General Kengo wa Dondo to explain himself. Franco defended himself vigorously suggesting that there was nothing immoral about the songs. They then summoned his mother Mbonga Makiesse to determine if the songs were immoral. Franco is said to have pleaded with them not to involve his mother. Mama Makiesse listened to the songs and reacted in shock. Franco was sentenced to 6 months. Ten of his musicians,......
MOKOLO NAKOKUFA LYRICS WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION - TABU LEY ROCHEREAU
August 22, 2024 - 05:55 AM
MOKOLO NAKOKUFA (THE DAY I WILL DIE) BY TABULEY ROCHEREAU Mokolo mosusu nga nakanisinaloti lokola ngai nakolalaaaaaah mamaaaah mokolo nakokufa Aaah (Another day when I was thinking about how things will be the day I will die (will be gone)I dreamt (imagined) how I was lying deadaaaaah mama aaah, the day I will die) Instrumentals Mokolo na kokufa nani akolela ngai,na koyeba teee ooh nani namilela aaahliwa ya nzamba soki mpe liwa yambokaliwa ya mbaki soki mpe liwa ya mayi oooohmamaaaaah, mokolo na kokufa (The day I will die who will cry (weep) for meI don't know who will......
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