19/09/2023
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(Born January 10th, 1959).
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Her real Name๐๐๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ข๐ซ๐ ๐๐๐จ๐ฒ๐จ ๐๐จ๐ฌ๐๐ค๐
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Stage Name ๐'๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐๐๐ฅ.
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At the age of seventeen, Mbilia Bel began her performing career, singing as a backup singer for ๐๐๐๐ญ๐ข ๐๐๐ฌ๐ข๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ข
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She is known as the "Queen of Congolese and African Rumba".
In the early 1980s she joined Tabu Ley Rochereau's band (Afrisa International).
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In the mid-1980s, the birth of their first child prompted her to take a break from performing for a year
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Mbilia Bel's first album, released in 1982, was ๐๐๐๐ถ ๐ฌ๐ผ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ถ. The title song, which translates to "Where did it hurt you?", was composed by both Tabu Ley and M'bilia Bel. The song won the award for the best song of 1982 in Zaire, and M'bilia Bel won the award for best newcomer. Other songs on the album such as Tabu Ley's "Lisanga ya Bambanda", "Kelhia", and Dino Vangu's "Quelle Mechancete" were big hits for Afrisa International.
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Mbilia Bel's songs continued to dominate the Congolese music scene, among them "๐ ๐ผ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐น๐ถ ๐ก๐ฎ ๐ก๐ด๐ฎ๐ถ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ป๐ฎ" ("This Husband of Mine"), composed by Tabu Ley and Roger Izeidi, an adaptation of a traditional song in Kikongo.
In the song, M'bilia Bel praises her husband as being handsome and successful and stresses that even though he has the opportunity to choose from any of Kinshasa's beautiful women, he chose her. Other songs that dominated the charts during her reign in Afrisa included;
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๐ก๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ถ ๐ก๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฏ๐ถ
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In 1987, Tabu Ley recruited another female artist to accompany M'bilia Bel. Kishila Ngoyi was known as "Faya Tess". It was with this new line-up that Afrisa embarked on a tour of East Africa that took in
