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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......

MPONGO LOVE BIOGRAPHY

January 06, 2025 - 12:50 PM BIOGRAPHY OF MPONGO LOVE M’Pongo Love, whose real name Alfride M’Pongo Landu is a Congolese musician. She is well known for her soft soprano voice but even more importantly she succeeded in becoming a successful musician despite being disabled. Along with Mbilia Bel, Tshala Mwana, and Abeti Masikini, she is considered one of the greatest female Congolese musicians. MPONGO LOVE’s CHILDHOOD AND EARLY CAREER She was born August 27, 1956, in Boma, a city on the Congo River near the western African coast Her father was an army officer in charge of a military base. Her mother was the director of a social center for the education of girls. In 1960, she......

BOYA YE LYRICS WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION

January 02, 2025 - 10:00 PM LINGALA LYRICS Oh mama ahOh mama ahBaseki nga mingi na batoBoya ye ehBoya ye ehBoya ye ehOh mama ahOh mama ahOh mama ahBatuni nga mingi na batoMobali nini oza nayeMosala te, Ndako teKiti te, falanga teOh mama ahOh mama ahOh mama ahMokangi motema oh mamaBapasi nioso okomonaOh mama ahOh mama ahOh mama ahLiputa moko okolataOsukoli mosusu pe okozela ekawuka mama ahOh mama ahOh mama ahOh mama ahBato bakoseka eh, bato bakoloba ehBoya ye ehBoya ye ehBoya ye ehBato bakofinga eh, bato bakotongo ohKima ye ehKima ye ehKima ye ehOh mama ahOh mama ahOh mama ahLiputa nioso epasuki ehEeh Mwana Panzu na nga ahKipungi nioso enzuluki na nzoto ehNga nameseni na nga ahBapasi nioso nakomonaLelo po na lingui......

LES RUMEURS LYRICS WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION - FRANCO

January 02, 2025 - 05:00 PM [Chorus]Mboka epanzani sango ee ee[The town is spreading rumours about me]Mboka epanzi ngai sango, balobi.. 'akoti lopitalo ee[They are saying 'he is in hospital']Balobi.. 'bamoni ye nga ngaliema ee[They are saying 'he was seen in Ngaliema']Balobi.. 'akende na Bruxelles ee[They are saying 'he has gone to Brussels']Balobi.. 'bamoni na Anvers eeThey are saying 'he was seen at Anvers']Balobi.. 'Akende na Paris ee[They are saying 'he has gone to Paris']Balobi.. 'bamoni na Geneve ee[They are saying 'he was seen in Geneva']Balobi.. 'Akende na Amerika ee'[They are saying 'He has gone to the USA']Parti etat, efuteli ye ticket oo[He has received his flight ticket]x2 Franco:Swela obota ngai, ngai......

BADIBANGA WA TSHILUMBA: THE LES MANGELEPA MASTER SHOWMAN

January 02, 2025 - 04:58 PM BY JEROME OGOLA Described by Standard Newspaper cartoonist Mado as “a band within a band”, Badibanga Wa Tshilumba aka Kaikai was a spectacle to behold in Les Mangelepa shows. His showmanship oozed naturally. He was a master of the stage. Although trying to do his choreography in synchrony with the other members on stage, he oftentimes ended up a one man show as he outwitted them. He knew how to do it. Badibanga Wa Tshilumba was a rare talent. He was Nairobi's most known trombone player, and possibly the only one in the secular circles outside the military. He made his trombone miraculously outstanding, thus creating a wonderful harmony with the super saxophones......

KAMARU'S JOURNEY IN MUSIC

December 31, 2024 - 10:33 PM BY JEROME OGOLA There was a musician who was summoned to Gatundu by Mzee Kenyatta, the then Kenya's president, and thoroughly flogged by an angry Mzee. This was a popular celebrity gossip that also made inroads to political discourses in the mod 1970s.What was the musician, and what was the dispute that made old Jomo, that angry? It was all about a song that was released after the assassination of JM Kariuki, pointing an accusing finger at Mzee Kenyatta and suggesting he was complicit. Two songs had been released at the time, themed on the assassination. The songs were by DK Mwai and Joseph Kamaru, both of which were popularly Kikuyu musicians of the day. The person who was flogged......

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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

MPONGO LOVE BIOGRAPHY

BOYA YE LYRICS WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION

LES RUMEURS LYRICS WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION - FRANCO

BADIBANGA WA TSHILUMBA: THE LES MANGELEPA MASTER SHOWMAN

KAMARU'S JOURNEY IN MUSIC

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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

MPONGO LOVE BIOGRAPHY

BOYA YE LYRICS WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION

LES RUMEURS LYRICS WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION - FRANCO

BADIBANGA WA TSHILUMBA: THE LES MANGELEPA MASTER SHOWMAN

KAMARU'S JOURNEY IN MUSIC

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