Biography of tabu ley rochereau muzina
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- In the early 1990s, Faya Tess now took center stage following the departure of Mbilia Bel. Also featuring for the band was Faya's sister Efomi Mondjoy, known by her stage name Beyou Ciel. Shaba kahamba was now chef d'orchestre. Other band members were vocalists Djeffard Lukombo, Dodo Munoko and Wawali Bonane Bungu. Guitarists Huit Kilos and saxophonist Modero Mekanisi.
Tabu Ley in California USA
- In the mid 1990s, Tabu ley briefly left his Paris base and settled in southern California. He signed a deal with Rounder records and & found success with the release of albums such as Muzina , Exil Ley , africa worldwide and and Babeti soukous. Exil Ley was in reference to the fact that he was now an exile from Zaire since he had criticised president Mobutu Sese Seko. The best song on the Exil Ley album was clearly "Le Glas a Sonne". In the song Tabu Ley talks about how his country used to be prosper
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Tabu Ley Rochereau also known as "Le Seigneur" is one of the nestors of African music in general and of Congolese music in particular. He started his career in Joseph "Grand Kalle" Kabasele's African Jazz in 1959. Four years later, an important defection took place, and Tabu Ley left to create l'African Fiesta together with gitarr hero Docteur Nico and Dechaud. Tabu and Nico didn't work together for long, and Tabu continued with African Fiesta National (Dr. Nico went along with his African Fiesta Sukisa faction). By the mid-1960s, the Congolese music scene was at its most prolific, and numerous spin-off bands from either the modern 'international' African jazz clan or the rootsier OK Jazz clan appeared (cf. Ewens 1994).
Tabu Ley constantly innovated through introducing elements from salsa, soul and disco, but also makossa and zouk to the Congolese rumba and he sung sometimes in French or English, unlike his rival and con•
Tabu Ley Rochereau
Musical artist
Pascal-Emmanuel Sinamoyi Tabu (13 November 1940 – 30 November 2013),[1][2][3] better known as Tabu Ley Rochereau, was a leading African rumba singer-songwriter from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He was the leader of Orchestre Afrisa International, as well as one of Africa's most influential vocalists and prolific songwriters. Along with guitarist Dr Nico Kasanda, Tabu Ley pioneered soukous (African rumba) and internationalised his music by fusing elements of Congolese folk music with Cuban, Caribbean and Latin Americanrumba. He has been described as "the Congolese personality who, along with Mobutu, marked Africa's 20th century history."[4] He was dubbed "the African Elvis" by the Los Angeles Times.[5] After the fall of the Mobutu regime, Tabu Ley also pursued a political career. His musical career ran parallel to the other great Congolese rhumba bandleader and rival Franco Luambo