The influential musician Congolese Papa Wemba, one of the best-known figures of the call world music, died Saturday night after having had a breakdown on stage at a concert in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. The musician was 66 years old
Concert Videos elapsing in Femua . – Festival des Musiques d’Urbaines Anoumabou show the artist lying on the ground the third song, with the dancers to continue its performance, without realizing the event. The death was confirmed by manager to the news channel France 24 was supposed Papa Wemba act again this evening at the close of Femua.
Your real name was Jules Shungu Wembadio Pene Kikumba and its great merit was to have cast African traditions with westernized and rock influences pop. Figure recognized in Africa since 1969, was one of the most popular names of soukous, gender music derived from African rumba, which emerged in the Congo in the 1930s and 1940s.
over the years turned out to be celebrated throughout the world as the “king of rumba of the Congo”, having performed with celebrities as Stevie Wonder and Peter Gabriel (made the first parts of the Secret World Tour in 1993 and Gabriel he produced three albums your on its publisher, Realworld), and your album 1995 Emotion , was produced by Stephen Hague (Pet Shop Boys, New Order).
He was co-founder of Zaiko Langa Langa in 1970, a group in which remained four years, and that mixed R & B Americanized with dance music of Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) and launched several successes as Pauline , C’est vérité or Liwa ya somo . Somehow the group turned out to mark the passage of rumba, reappropriation of Cuban rhythms by African musicians, for soukous, influenced by funk and soul.
After leaving this group formed his first band, Isife Lokole and Yoka Lokole, but it would be in 1976 that would lead the formation with which got more successful, Viva La Musica, which built its reputation with hits such as Moku nyon nyon , Nyekesse Migue’l or cou cou dindon, where he distinguished his unique voice.
But it was not just the music that marked his route. He was also the great inspirer of worship movement Sapeurs, young male teachers in the well-dressed art. He and his group always distinguished by the aplomb and care for clothing and admirers, inspired by his aesthetic sense, they began to dress the same way, then popping the Sapeurs.
In 1999, after a show at the Centro Cultural de Belém, in Lisbon, the critic of PUBLIC, Fernando Magalhaes, precisely marked the alliance between music and fashion aesthetics conveyed by Papa Wemba, speaking of “revelry” and “extraversion” of music and his attitude on stage .
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