Lougah francois tshala muana biography

Listening to Oliver de Coque for the first time in 1984, I was made aware that there was a whole lot more to Nigerian music than King Sunny Adé and Fela Anikulapo-Kuti.

De Coque, born Oliver Sunday Akanite, passed away of a heart attack on Friday, June 20, joining in death his colleagues Sonny Okosuns (who died only in May), Stephen Osita Osadebe, Nelly Uchendu and Warrior. With his passing, Nigerian highlife music, on life support for the last twenty years, has sustained a mortal blow. It's doubtful that anybody, or anything, can take his place.

De Coque hails from Ezinifite, Nnewi South LGA, Anambra State, and got his musical start in 1965 at the age of 17 playing ekpili, a form of Igbo traditional music. In 1970, following the defeat of the Biafran war of independence, he got a job playing with a Lagos group, Sunny Agaga & his Lucky Star Band. Shortly after he engaged with Jacob Oluwole & his Friendly Unity Band, and was featured on their hit "Agbasisi." De Coque's stint with this group was also short-lived, and in 1973 he took up with Sule Agboola & his Moonlight Star Band.

De Coque emerged as a solo artist in 1976, when his LP Messiah Messiah (Olumo ORPS 48) was released. A series of classic recordings followed, notably Identity (Olumo ORPS 108) in 1980, and a series of records in honor of the People's Club of Nigeria. His great inspiration was to combine highlife, Congolese-style guitar work and the propulsive energy of traditional Igbo music. His called his style, or "system" Ogene, after the Igbo double bell.

On my first day in Nigeria with my family in December 1994, who should I see but my hero Oliver de Coque striding through the mayhem of the domestic air terminal in Lagos. He gestured to his entourage to join him and they marched out onto the tarmac to board their plane. No standing on line for the Ogene King!

Then, in Priscilla's home town of Awo-Omamma, De Coque showed up again. The occasion was a house-warming party for one of

From Ivory Coast: François Lougah

I mentioned to someone recently that with two teenagers headed off to college soon I just can't afford to plop down $17-20 for a CD anymore. Therefore, by necessity, this weblog is devoted mainly to older sounds. That means that I haven't heard African Scream Contest, Nigeria Special, or any of the great new reissues that everybody else in the African music blogosphere has been raving about.

In my younger, more carefree days it was a different story. Back in the mid-1980s, when I first discovered Sterns in London, I made several big orders, totaling well over two thousand dollars. A favorable exchange rate didn't hurt either. At one point the Pound Sterling went for $1.03! Even taking postage and import duties into account the cost of a European-pressed LP was roughly equal to what I would pay for an American one. Not, of course, that anything I could get in a U.S. record store could equal anything Sterns had on offer!

I generally didn't order specific recordings from the Sterns people (availability of particular titles was iffy anyway). Rather I would request x number of records, with the instructions that they were to select whatever was the latest and best from each particular country. It sure was a kick to go down to the post office, pay the import duty and then rush home to hear what they'd picked out for me!

In this way I was exposed to an awful lot of excellent sounds that I might not have considered otherwise. I certainly wouldn't have heard any of the music that was coming out of Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) those days. As I noted in a previous post, that country has been host to numerous musical styles over the years. The latest is Coupé Decalé, which hit the scene around 2002.

For many years the music of Côte d'Ivoire was overshadowed by the sounds coming out of its neighbors Ghana, Nigeria and especially Congo. Imported R&B from the US was also hugely popular, as it was everywhere in Africa. Local musicians like Amadee Pierre and Anoman Brou

Abeti Masikini na mkumbu na yandi ya kieleka Elisabeth Finant Aka Abeti Masikiini, butukaka na kilumbu ya 9 novembre 1954 na Kisangani",Stanleyville na Congo Belge (bubu yai Kisangani, na République Démocratique du Congo) mpe kufwaka na kilumbu ya 28 septembre 1994 na Paris, yandi vuandaka muyimbi ya miziki, Nsoniki ya bankunga miziki, mpe muntu ya ke bulaka miziki na Congo.

Yandi kele mwana ya Jean-Pierre Finant (1922-1961), diplomate mpe muntu ya politiki ya Congo-Kinshasa, depite ya ntama mpe guvernere ya provense ya Esti na manima ya kubaka kimpwanza ya insi.

Mutindu na yandi ya miziki, ya me fwanana kibeni, kele ti mambu mingi ya mutindu na mutindu: rumba congolaise, bleu, soul, folk, Soukouss.

Disolo ya luzingu

Mkumbu na yandi ya kieleka kele Élisabeth Finant, Abeti Masikini butukaka na kilumbu ya 9 novembre 1954 na Jean-Pierre Finant na Marie, na dibuta ya bana nana. Tata na yandi longisaka yandi Piano banda bumwana. Yandi yimbilaka mpe ntangu yandi vuandaka leke bonso choriste.

Na nima ya kumanisa nzo-nkanda ya nene, yandi salaka na biro ya Ministre ya Culture Pierre Mushete.

Ya vuandaka na ntangu yina nde "Betty" ya leke (mkumbu na yandi ya nkaka) bikaka kimpwanza na nzola na yandi samu na miziki, na kuyituka ya nene ya dibuta na yandi. Yandi kotaka na 1971 na nsaka ya miziki yina Gérard Madiata yidikaka, kisika yandi bakaka kisika ya tatu. Yandi ta soba dati ya lubutuku na yandi na kubuelaka bamvula tatu ya nkaka na nima ya bamvula 17 ya kieleka. Yandi me sala na lusadisu ya bantu ya nkaka ya dibuta na yandi kimvuka mosi yina ke bulaka gitare na yawu kele leke na yandi ya bakala Jean Abumba. Yandi ke kudibingaka Betty Finant mpe ke salaka na ba club ya fioti.

Luzingu ya kinsweki

Abeti zingaka na yinzo na yandi mpe muntu ya ke salaka miziki, Gérard Akueson yantika 1972 tii 1994. Bo vukisaka nitu na bo na Paris na mvula 1989. Yandi vuandaka