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Home of African Tunes: Jabulani Radio aims to entertain and educate the world through African music. They believe that African music has the power to change and improve the world, and that African culture can foster harmony among people

17/01/2025

Sam Fan Thomas, born Samuel Thomas Ndonfeng in April 1952 in Bafoussam, Cameroon, is a prominent Cameroonian musician known for his association with Makossa music.

He embarked on his musical journey in the late 1960s, joining The Black Tigers under the leadership of blind musician Andre Marie Tala.

Thomas spent eight years with the band, recording numerous singles and exploring diverse musical influences. The group's ventures included recording sessions in Paris and tours across Senegal and other African nations. During this time, Tala developed the distinctive tchamassi rhythm, inspired by Bamileke folklore.

In 1976, Thomas released his debut solo album, "Funky New Bell," on the Satel label in Benin. This was followed by a second album in 1977, also on Satel, featuring support from the Black Santiagos of Benin.

In 1982, Thomas gained widespread recognition with the release of "Rikiatou," his third album recorded in Nigeria. The title track became a hit, solidifying his reputation in Cameroon.

In 1983, Thomas traveled to Paris to record "Makassi," his own music style characterized by an uptempo blend of makossa infused with elements of Tala's tchamassi and other Bamileke influences.

The album included the international dance floor hit "African Typic Collection," which sampled the melody of the Franco song "Boma l'heure." This success earned Thomas a golden disc in 1984. Subsequent albums such as "Neng Makassi" (1985), "Funk Makassi," and "Makassi Plus" (both 1986) continued
to showcase his sophisticated production style.

"Makassi Plus" tracks were featured on a 1987 compilation by the British Earthworks record label, further expanding Thomas's international reach. "Makassi Again" (1988), distributed globally by the Celluloid record label, continued his musical exploration.

In the early 1990s, Thomas shifted his focus from recording his own material to mentoring and promoting emerging Cameroonian artists. He established Makassi Plus Studio in Douala, where he nurtured talent and released records from artists like Kotto Bass, Ebelle Jeannot, and others throughout the decade. Despite releasing new material such as "Emotion" (1993) and "No Satisfaction" (1999), Thomas did not achieve the same level of success as his earlier works.

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15/01/2025

Today, 35 years ago, on January 15, 1990, Congolese rumba lost one of its greatest divas: M'Pongo Love.

The singer had just returned to Kinshasa to relaunch her career after a long period spent abroad. She was 33 years old.

Credit House of Rhumba

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14/01/2025

The Guitar Legend..

SYRAN M'BENZA.
Now Paris based guitarist, Arranger and producer..the 73 years old has been in the musical business since 1968 and has passed through so many groups like Jamel Jazz, Somo Somo, Lovy Du Zaïre and Kara Jazz in the period 1969-76.
He is also considered to be one of guys instrumental in the spread of Rumba Congolaise that eventually was modified in the 70s to what come to be known as Soukous Music..during his stint with the African All Stars based in Abidjan (1976-9) led by Sam Mangwana and other adventurous young musicians ' Nyboma, Lokassa ya Mbongo, Theo Blaise Kounkou, Roger Moya and Bopol Masiamina...who all ended up in Paris kicking of the Parisan Soukous scene that become so popular in the 1980s-90s.
Syran M'benza's musical venture led to the loose formation of Les Quatre Etoile (4 Stars...himself, Wuta Mayi, Nyboma and Bopol) in 1982--untill 1996 when the group officially disbanded.
Thesedays Syran is one of the patrons of the group Kekele- check my past post on this group

Session work:

Syran M'benza has worked with almost every great name in the business either as a guitatist or an arranger.
I am drawned into two of his very popular participations, the hit singles 'Nzele' 1994 and 'Aminata' 2007..both by Madilu System..he arranged and plays the Lead and Mi-Solo here! Listen carefully and you'll agree with me that he is infact one of the best Odemba (Franco's style)guitarist in the planet! ( the others are Michelino Matavisi, Mose Fan Fan and Nguza Viking..thats according to my outlook😁)..
To add on this point, check his 2009 album SRYAN M'BENZA & ENSEMBLE RUMBA KONGO: IMMORTAL FRANCO. Celebrating the work of Franco and Ok Jazz.

Copy: Planet Soukous 🎶

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14/01/2025

𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗘𝗣𝗘 𝗞𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗘 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗪𝗜𝗙𝗘 𝗠𝗔𝗠𝗔 𝗣𝗔𝗨𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗘 𝗟𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗢𝗞𝗜𝗦𝗜.

𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗕𝗘𝗔𝗨𝗧𝗜𝗙𝗨𝗟 🔥

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14/01/2025

Lady Isa...
,❤️❤️
Any of her hits you can remember

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13/01/2025

Clan Wenge during the funeral of Seguin Mignon

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13/01/2025

LEARN LINGALA

1. Mobali nalingi nkombo naye nayebi te – I don’t know the name of the man I love/like.
2. Koyoka mongongo – To hear the voice.
3. Eza na liseke – It has a horn.
4. Epai ya bayembi – A singers’ place.
5. Mayi ya moto – Hot water.
6. Bwaka mayi – Pour water.
7. Po nabala te – So that I don’t marry.
8. Nasengi yo – I am asking you.
9. Nabandi kolela – I begin to cry.
10. Liwa ozali moyibi – Death you are a thief.
11. Baninga nanga – My friends.
12. Butu elamu! — Good night!
13. Molakisi ya lokota – Language teacher.
14. Aza mobeti malamu – He’s a good footballer
15. Mokolo nakokufa – The day I will die.
16. Nani akolela ngai? – Who will mourn me?
17. Liwa ya mayi – Drowning death
18. Yo moko – You alone.
19. Oza na motema mabe – You have a bad heart.
20. Ekoti te – It’s not entering.
21. Eloko oyo – This thing.
22. Azali na mindondo mingi – He/she has many worries.
23. Nzela ya kala – The old way.
24. Lokumu ya mwasi – Women’s prestige/honour/dignity.
25. Lopete na mosapi – Ring on the finger.
26. Mabe nyoso tomonaki – All the bad things we saw.
27. Maladi ekokondisa moto – Disease makes someone thin.
28. Sukola maboko – Wash hands.
29. Osali masumu – You make mistakes/commit sins.
30. Naloti ndoto – I have had a dream.
31. Misapi ya makolo – Toes
32. Oza mwana Nzambe – You’re God’s child.
33. Bato ya lokuta – Liars
34. Mokolo mosusu – Another day.
35. Nafungolaka bino miso – I have opened your eyes.
36. Luka mosala – Look for a job.
37. Biloko ya ndako– Household goods.
38. Banzembo ya kosepelisa bato – Songs to make people happy.
39. Mabaku ya nzela – Road obstacles
40. Naleisa yo lokola mwana moke – I feed you like a child.

12/01/2025

Mama Mbilia Bel is now 69 years old!

She celebrated her 69th birthday on January 10th.

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12/01/2025

𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐊𝐎 𝐌𝐀𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐔 𝐁𝐈𝐎𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐏𝐇𝐘!

Shiko Mawatu grew up in a family where music came naturally. His father was an accomplished accordion player and his two brothers Jean Waini Mobunda Mawatu and Rocky Lisaso sung for the Simba Band in Kinshasa, Congo. With a musical upbringing, Shiko Mawatu felt the liberty of exploring other musical influences of his environment in his native city of Kinshasa. In his early teens, he exercised his writing ambitions by collaborating with Veve Verckys Kiamuangana, the famous Congolese producer & musician who had discovered him as a young talent.

Still in his teens, he formed a band “Le Paty – Bana Ngenge” with his friends Aziza and Tofolo also gifted musicians. They collaborated as talented musicians and they performed Shiko’s originals at local venues for years. He decided to pursue a solo career to better express his talent as a musician, an arranger, a songwriter, and a singer. Later on, he discovered a talent, the singer Vonga Aye and they both ended up working with the famous saxophonist Empopo Loway to form a band with Vonga Aye as their female lead vocalist. They all worked with the guitar legend Dr. Nico Kasanda Wa Mikalayi who then took them to Europe for the recording of their first album, “Bonbon Kojak.” The success Shiko had achieved as a guitar player, a songwriter and an arranger had put him on the map in the community of Kinshasa professional musicians before his European trip. Upon his return to Congo, Shiko discovered Malage De Lugendo who later became Franco’s protégé and Zaiko Langa Langa’s main vocalist. Mawatu continued his streak of discovering new talents such as Deese Mukangi and many others as his way of searching for a missing link.

He returned to Europe in 1990 in search for new influences and collaborations with other gifted musicians. He performed with Theo Lolango and an American, David Hoffman in Rome, Italy to yet experiment new sounds and techniques. In 2000, Soukous Stars of legendaries like Lokassa Ya Mbongo, Canta Nyboma, Shimita Diego and the Professor Ngouma Lokito retained his services as a lead guitar player and also a music director for the group. However, this famous songwriter did not perform or record his original materials with Soukous Stars but he gave them the best of himself. Mawatu decided to make the year 2007 a year of his original songs on record for the first time ever.

𝐓𝐎 𝐁𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐔𝐄𝐃......

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12/01/2025

DIEGO OLOMIDE with his father Le Grand Mopao KOFFI OLOMIDE.

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12/01/2025

Musicians from Brazzaville:
From Left: Loko Massengo, Youlou Mabiala & Theo Blaise Kounkou

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11/01/2025

Rev. Carlito Lassa Ndombasi

He has done lead vocals in some of Papa Noël's compositions. Let's name the songs he has done lead vocals on the comment section:

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11/01/2025

A song by Luambo Makiadi that marked you a lot more in his musical Career 🎵 🎸

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10/01/2025

"Nabali misère". Performed by OK-Jazz. This song is one of the great successes of modern Congolese music.

The author of this song, Mayaula was also a great football player in Vita-Club, at the time of and Kembo. He had converted to music as Yannick Noah had just done, who went from tennis to music.

Long before Mayaula converted to music , another great Congolese footballer, The "Honorable" Freddy Mulongo who had recorded a beautiful song, "Angélique", with his wife, during his career at Standard de Liège.

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10/01/2025

Parafifi, by Kallé Jeff
"Paraffifi" by Kallé Jeff and African-Jazz is one of the most performed Congolese songs in the DRC. Franco Luambo refers to it when he sings "nabinaki tango Kallé ayemba Parafifi". Gerrard Madiata performed it wonderfully in his dance hall "Baninga", in Barumbu. All musical generations know it like the back of their hand. Even comedians like "Ngadiadia" and others have tried to immortalize it in their own way.
Thus, this song which dates from a certain era, still keeps all the secrets of a legendary song

10/01/2025

FRANCO LUAMBO MAKIADI

THE LEGEND 😎

What's your favourite song from this legend and tpok jazz band.

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09/01/2025

M'Pongo Love (Landu, M'Pongo), Congolese singer; born Boma, Congo-Kinshasa, Aug. 27, 1956; died Kinshasa, Jan. 15, 1990.

M'Pongo took up music early in life as a member of her school choir. In spite of paralysis in her lower legs—attributed variously to a poorly administered medical injection or polio—she moved to Kinshasa at age nineteen to pursue a career as a singer. She succeeded quickly with help from O.K. Jazz saxophonist Empompo Loway, who arranged her music and enlisted a wealthy patron to finance her first endeavors.

During her debut year of 1976, M'Pongo appeared on television, performed in concert, and cut her first records backed by Empompo and various Kinshasa bands. Her songs, done in the style of the Congolese rumba, were immediate hits. "Ndaya" told the story of a happily married woman confident of keeping her husband. "Pas Possible Maty" discussed the perils of pursing romance while one is supposed to be working.

Like the great Abeti, M'Pongo ignored Kinshasa's night clubs, preferring instead to play grand concerts in large halls. She toured around Congo (then Zaire) and abroad with Empompo leading her backing band called Tcheke Tcheke Love. Her sexy voice and beautiful appearance, together with the quality of the music, attracted a multitude of fans.
At the end of the seventies, with Congo's economy in rapid decline, M'Pongo tried her luck in Paris where she signed with Safari Ambiance. Her first album, La Voix du Zaïre (1979), was a moderate success. After parting with Empompo, M'Pongo returned to a Paris studio in 1981 to record Femme Commerçante (businesswoman), her best work. The six-song album, arranged by Congo-Brazzaville's Sammy Massamba, employed the latest recording technology and the finest Congolese session players. A follow-up, Basongeur (gossipers) from 1983 was also well received.

After recording Basongeur, M'Pongo tried to break her contract with Safari Ambiance. The label filed a lawsuit that effectively barred her from recording in Paris for several years. She moved to Gabon where she recorded, less successfully, with Gabonese musician-politician Alexandre Sambat. A series of concert tours, mostly in West Africa, kept her flagging career alive in the late eighties. M'Pongo recorded a final album, Partager (sharing), in Paris in 1989 following the resolution of her case with Safari Ambiance. Death from an unspecified illness cut short her comeback attempt.

An excellent singer and first-rate song writer, M'Pongo never quite fulfilled the promise of her early career. Her work with Empompo and then Safari Ambiance had appeared to lay the foundation for long-term success, but her break with the label triggered a decline from which she never fully recovered.
© 2011 Gary Stewart

08/01/2025

Kanda Bongo Man (Bongo, Kanda), Congolese singer; born Inongo, Congo-Kinshasa, 1955.

Although his career was largely made in Paris, Kanda got his start in Kinshasa at the tail end of the belle epoque, the heyday of the Congolese rumba. He sang briefly beside Bella Bella singer Soki Dianzenza in Dianzenza's break away group Bella Mambo in 1976. Later the same year, Kanda and guitarist Diblo Dibala themselves broke away to form Bana Mambo (the children of Bella Mambo). That group stayed together for two years before breaking up in Uganda where they had gone on tour. Back in Kinshasa in 1979, Kanda worked a few months in a re-united Bella Bella before taking off for Paris.

Following more than a year of struggle, working odd jobs to support himself, Kanda met record dealer Ouattara Moumouni who was setting up his own label, Afro Rythmes. The pair made their first album, Iyole, together in 1981 with a quintet of musicians that included Diblo on lead guitar. Their first work was rough, but the stripped-down guitar, bass, and drums accompaniment and the speeded-up tempo of the rumba set the pattern for the future. The next year's effort, Djessy, with former Bella Bella guitarist Shaba Kahamba sitting in, showed strong improvement.

Kanda's lean, up-tempo, dance floor rumba was an agent of the evolving sound called soukous. Diblo's rapid picking butressed Kanda's engaging tenor in a combination that, by the mid-eighties, seemed unstoppable. Kanda, by this time producing himself, cranked out hit after hit starting with Malinga in 1985. What was perhaps his best album of the eighties, Sai-Liza (1987), helped to popularize a new dance craze from Kinshasa called kwassa-kwassa. Both Malinga and Sai-Liza were picked-up and re-packaged by the U.K./U.S. Hannibal label.

Diblo left to form his own group after recording Sai-Liza, but by then Kanda was such a sensation that the loss did little damage. Kanda played frequent concerts in Africa and Europe, and in 1989 made his first, and highly successful, tour of North America. Zing-Zong from 1991 added horns for the first time and was again picked-up by Hannibal. Another North American tour in 1992 yielded the CD Soukous in Central Park. Back home in Africa Kanda mixed soukous with voices and horns from the Johannesburg townships for the 1995 release Welcome to South Africa.

The nattily dressed, gap-toothed Kanda was an energetic performer who employed the best Congolese musicians from Paris and the latest dance steps from Kinshasa to striking effect. As a singer he valued lyrics, so his soukous represented more than a simple summons to the dance floor. In addition, he possessed a business sense that most of his colleagues seemed to lack. Kanda was one of only a handful of Congolese ever to make a lasting deal with a Western record label. His tours were well-organized and usually successful. As a result, Kanda enjoyed the highest profile of any of the musicians to emerge from the Congolo-Paris scene.
© 2011 Gary Stewart

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