Franco- FABRICE (1983)

 

Hello everyone. I want to do a post on this classic work. 

It is Chez Fabrice a Bruxxelles. It is a great work from Franco and Le TPOK Jazz. It was released in 1983. This album is a important for three reasons.

1) Some notable OKJ singers left. I mean Ndombe Opetum, Djo Mpoyi, Diatho Lukoki and Wuta Mayi. Wuta Mayi would go to form a band with Nyboma called 4 Etoiles. Djo Mpoyi would go to do some solo adventure and do some songs with Diatho of a side band Tiers Monde. Ndombe would form Tiers Cooperation with Sam Mangwana before Diatho and Djo would join Ndombe on that band after Sam went for another adventure. 

2) Franco rediscovered a passion in making duets with the song Non. 

3) It was beginning of the star of Madilu System.

This album was where Madilu System would finally breakthrough after years of having no luck with end of Bakuba Mayopi. But on this song, Madilu restarted his stardom and fans of OKJ began to notice him. They enjoyed his voice a lot. When you listen to Non, you notice it sounds a little different from his usual style. Well it was designed that way. If Franco had it his way, no way Madilu would have sung this song. In fact he made this song for another individual. Who was it? Josky Kiambukuta. Wait? JOSKY, Really? Yes. Well according to Madilu anyway. He claimed that he wanted this song to be for Josky. Very interesting but then again Josky was nicknamed Djosex for love songs. After all, Josky was Franco's favorite singer for a long time. He often selected Josky to sing in his songs. I mean Josky even co-sang lead Franco's TOKOMA BACAMARADE. So I can see why Franco wanted Josky. But Josky surprisingly refused. Also, he did not look for Ntesa Dalienst which is shocking considering that Ntesa and Franco had a great complimentary sound together. Franco was apparently mad because he could not get a singer. Funny enough, Madilu said Franco even wanted Nyboma and Wuta Mayi who then formed 4 Etoiles as I mentioned before with Syran Mbenza and Bopol. Then, Madilu said that he sung a little vocal but Franco wanted Tabu Ley but thanks to Franco's wife, the song officially went to Madilu as Franco's duet partner. You know the rest is history for the beginning of Madilu's reign on OKJ after 1983.

Also comes the good harmony of Josky Kiambukuta, Madilu System and Ntesa Dalienst. It would be showed on the songs Freins a main (handbrake) and Second Version of Fabrice which is known as 5 Ans Ya Fabrice (5 years of Fabric). These songs also showed Franco's ability to give storytelling while singing at the same time. I saw the great emotion and passion of Josky, Madilu and Ntesa in the choirs. This showed how good Franco was at assembling great singers together. He did once with Josky, Ndombe and Ntesa or Josky, Pepe Ndombe and Youlou Mabiala or Diatho Lukoki, Josky and Ntesa. This one was no exception. Franco was a great musical genius not only on guitar but also getting great singers in order to great harmony for all OKJ fans to enjoy.  

Another part of Madilu's rise into OKJ had a part of another individual who people often compare Madilu to. Well vocally speaking anyway. Also this man really was loved by Franco. I am speaking about Pepe Kalle. Pepe Kalle was a big star in Congo at the time and he was impressing big stars. While Franco pretended to be scared of Zaiko Langa Langa, in reality he feared Pepe Kalle much more that he attempted to actually get him into OKJ. But the problem was that Pepe Kalle wanted to be his own man and respectfully declined to join OK Jazz. Franco was very angry about this that he was determined to find a "Pepe Kalle" prototype. He would get his wish after finding Madilu and getting success with him on the song Non. Madilu's star rose as Pepe Kalle started to make noise around the periods of 1985 to 1988. Franco and Pepe Kalle found that they had a lot of things in common. Papy Tex had remarked that Franco and Pepe Kalle would do some games together while Papy Tex would not want to participate. Also Franco preferred Empire Bakuba over Zaiko Langa Langa behind the scenes. THAT IS THE TRUTH. According to Papy Tex, Franco was a important partner to Empire Bakuba and he did a lot for them to get more access. 

That leads to my series that I am going to do? Should Pepe Kalle have joined OK Jazz? That is a tough question. Yes and No. It is really 50 and 50. I did often say that Dr. Nico should have joined Franco (and I insist on it today) because Franco could handle anyone. I am sure Franco could have managed Pepe Kalle very well. 

I will give two sides of the coin. Seven reasons why Pepe Kalle should not have joined OK Jazz and Seven reasons why Pepe Kalle should have joined OK Jazz. 

Dream Quartet: Ana Carolina, Claudia Leitte, Daniela Mercury and Ivete Sangalo

Hello everyone. This is women's month history. I am doing dream duets, trios and quartets as well. This is will be dedicated to women around the world. This edition is a quartet of four great Brazilian female artists. 

Eu amo estos artistas muito. Eu quiero tudo o mundo por saber uma coisa dos artistas. Elas sao gran e elas tem muito talento. Elas são as boas cantoras e muitas pessoas sabem suas canções. Quando entendo suas cancaos, sentigo muito gozo em meu coração. Quem são las cantoras?

I am speaking about Ana Carolina, Claudia Leitte, Daniela Mercury and Ivete Sangalo. The latter three have sung together in many performances. Recently Claudia and Ivette performed at the Brazilian carnival. It was highly successful and fans were very ecstatic about the performance. When I saw that performance, I was thinking it would be nice if another place could get festival where we could get Claudia and Ivete with two more singers with them. 

It would be a relax setting with romantic songs in pleasures for all the fans who love their voices. I would Ana Carolina and Daniela Mercury. It can be done a dancing manner or a slow manner however these singers would like to be done. 

Here are four songs that I have found that these four singers would fit it without worry. 

OK here are the following songs

Resta: Ana Carolina with Chiara Civello (Studio Version) 

Tô Samba da Vida: Daniela Mercury (Studio Version)

Não me compares: Ivete Sangalo with Alejandro Sanz (Studio Version)

Corazón: Claudia Leitte with Ivete Sangalo (Live Version)

These four songs exemplify perfect balances between slow and more romantic style songs while you also have a Samba influenced songs. Also you have good news with these ladies. Ana is very good with guitar and Claudia can also play the guitar if she is in the mood with Ivete very good at drumming. I will show one photo of Ivete Sangalo playing drums.

I think if this quartet were to happen, it would need to happen in a festival where tons of fans would be there to witness. Or if this quartet were to happen in a studio, the producers need to make sure that these four ladies are comfortable. That is important to make sure that this quartet is successful. Don't forget, they are the big stars of Brazil and they have busy lives, if people want them to work well, then do these steps. 

Dream Duet: Ana Barbara and Malú

 

Hello everyone. This is women's month history. I am doing dream duets, trios and quartets as well. This is will be dedicated to women around the world. The next two editions will be dream duets dedicated to Spanish women. 

Second part of the duet editions are two great female Spanish singers that are very sexy and very charming. This is final Spanish women edition. 

Estas cantoras son romantica para mi. Amo estas cantoras muchas. Ellas cantan muy bien. Estoy un fanatico de sus vozes. Ellas tienen mucho talento y ellas saben como cantar y hacer los momentos memorables para sus fanáticos. Quien son las cantoras españolas que hablo? 

I am speaking of Ana Barbara and Malú. These two Spanish singers would be perfect together. I know these singers are relaxing kind of singers. Their job musically is to relax you when you feel very stressed out. When I hear their voices, that is my feeling with them. Sometimes we need that because life is so hard and super complicated. I mean excessively complicated. The ones that I selected fit this description perfectly. Ana Barbara and Malu would be good for relaxing people and relieving people in a musical sense. 

I got one song to fit this great example for my thinking. 

This song is callaed Quise Olvidar which I think means who forgets. This song that Ana Barbara sang with Carolina Ross. I think this song could also be done well with a individual like Malú.  She has a good low voice while Ana Barbara can sing high effectively but with a big masculine twist on it. Also the harmony would have made the song a bit softer than I heard on that video that I am showing to you guys. 

I hopeful that someone can get these two wonderful singers together and make some beautiful harmonies together for fans that love theirs voices. It would be a great idea and something definitively new. 

Dream Duet: Edith Marquez and Monica Naranjo

 

Hello everyone. This is women's month history. I am doing dream duets, trios and quartets as well. This is will be dedicated to women around the world. The next two editions will be dream duets dedicated to Spanish women. 

First part of the duet editions are two great female Spanish singers that are very sexy and very charming.

Estas cantoras son bien para mi corazón. Amo estas cantantes muchas. Ellas cantan muy bien que yo voy muy loco. Ellas tienen mucho talento y ellas saben como cantar y hacer los momentos memorables para sus fanáticos. Quien son las cantoras españolas que hablo? 

I am speaking about Edith Marquez and Monica Naranjo. Why would I select these two wonderful female Spanish women. It is because they are opposites attract but both have beautiful vibratos. They are just hopeless romantics who have enormous emotions. They can have moments of joy and then at other times, they can have moments of sadness. They do their best to give music that people can love. I can see them combine their styles. I think they can play their styles together. Monica Naranjo is more pop sounding while Edith Marquez is more traditional with her music. 

I have two songs that I think would help these two wonderful ladies to remix with lovely harmonies 

These songs are the ones that they should sing together. The first song is Monica's famous song Jamas which means in Spanish "Never". The second song is Edith's song is Aunque Sea en Otra Vida which means in Spanish "No sea in another life". These songs would good for these two women to harominze espcially both of these songs are themes of sadness. Why? Because they are very effective emotional singers and they know how to get into your hearts in their music. I think their voices would meld together especially their lovely vibratos that they posses in their voices. 

I hope one day that these two women sing together and maybe make a dream duet album. It would be nice for Spanish music fans. 

Dream Duet: Abby Suriya and Mpongo Love

 

This is women's history month and I want to focus on Congolese women singers that they have yet to sing together or the ones that should have sung together. I got two Congolese ladies that I selected for you guys for today. 

Cette chanteuse est une individue qui participait dans beaucoup de boulots Congolais. Cette chanteuse qui etait une proche musicale du saxophoniste Empompo Loway. Cette chanteuse chantait avec beaucoup de vedettes Congolaises. Cette chanteuse qui est la mere de chanteuse Sandra. Qui sont les chanteuses que je parle? 

The subjects today are Abby Suriya and the late Mpongo Love. The latter is mother to Sandra Mpongo who is also a singer herself. I actually think if Mpongo had lived longer, I believed that she would have sung with a woman like Abby Suriya. That would have the good idea of them singing together. These two female singers are like opposites attract but it is perfect for us. Abby Suriya is a romantic singer but more expressive in her tone. Mpongo Love is also a romantic singer but softer in her tone. This would be a great musical match. Mpongo's voice a female version of Ntesa in a sense where her voice is very jolly. Abby Suriya's voice is a female version of combinations of Shimita, Solo Sita and Carlyto whom she sang with in the past. 

One reason that they would have and should have sung together would because they both worked with former soccer legend Mayaula Mayoni. They had the luxuries to work with him. Abby appeared on Mayaula Mayoni's Ousmane Bakyoko and Bikini. Mpongo got her name going on Mayoni's song Ndaya which she sang with saxophonist Empompo Loway. 

Speaking on Ndaya. That would be one of the songs that would have been perfect for Abby Suriya and Mpongo Love. Mpongo singing high with Abby singing low. There is another song that would have been perfect. It is also from Mayaula Mayoni. The song he did for Tshala Muana. It is called Nasi Mobali. 

Here is the songs 

NDAYA 

NASI NABALI 

If they had sung together, it would have good for Congolese music fans who love female singers more. 

Second and final series of Congolese women in Dream Duets. 

Dream Duet: Barbara Kanam and Cindy Le Coeur

 

This is women's history month and I want to focus on Congolese women singers that they have yet to sing together or the ones that should have sung together. I got two Congolese ladies that I selected for you guys for today. 

Cette chanteuse est l'auteure de la chanson "Jardin d'amour" et une autre chanteuse qui est la chanteuse préférée du chanteur Koffi Olomide. Koffi Olomide est le patron du Quartier Latin. Cette chanteuse est une relative du grand musicien Maika Munan qui est connu pour ses travaux avec les musiciens comme Koffi Olomide, Papa Wemba, Madilu, Pepe Kalle et notamment Tabu Ley. Cette chanteuse était dans un orchestre avec la chanteuse religieuse Meje-30. Qui sont les chanteuses que je parle de? 

They are Barbara Kanam and Cindy le Coeur or some say Cyndy le Coeur. Technically the same in my view anyway. Why did I select these two as a dream duo. 

Because they are both are effective as romantic fanatics. Also, they have soft voices which I know pleases some folks who prefer softer voices. However there is a nice difference between Barbara Kanam and Cindy le Coeur. Cindy's soft voice is very feminine and pretty high while Barbara's voice is much more masculine and in the middle range in the female standard. In other words, not low enough or high enough. That is exactly why these two women must sing together. If Koffi Olomide wanted more money, he should encourage Cindy and Barbara to do a few duet songs together so he can get be involved in the guitar and musical production side. Koffi is good at playing the guitar if some don't know. 

I found five Koffi Olomide songs that Barbara Kanam and Cindy Le Coeur should sing together. Koffi Olomide would only play guitar in these scenarios. 

1) Diabolos (2008) 

2) Drapeau Blanc (2003) 

3) Micko (1997) 

4) Lovemycine (2008)

5) Classe Tendresse (1993) 

These five songs would have been perfect especially the last one. I am speaking to the song Classe Tendresse. This song would be perfect for these two women to make beautiful harmony and the lead vocals to be equal between Barbara and Cindy. This song would fit their soft voices well in my humble opinion. Then add to Koffi Olomide's guitar in it, it would be a song in the standard of MOPAO. 

Koffi fans should encourage him to arrange a duet between Cindy Le Coeur and Barbara Kanam. Agree or disagree?

First edition of Congolese Women special of Dream Duets. 

Dream Duet: Desouza Santu and Josky Kiambukuta (JOSKY TRIBUTE)

 

This is Josky tribute time. We lost a great singer who was sick but not sick enough where he was near it. So we will do a Dream Duet edition in tribute to Josky. This singer was considered a Evoloko prototype.

He is Desouza Santu. He also is called and rightfully so as Desouza Santu Mungongo Elengi. I like that title. His voice is like that. He used to sing with Evoloko, Bimi Ombale and Pepe Kalle. He is one incredibe vocalist in my opinion. He is a solo artist and was very present on Biya Chante's album Cocktail. He recently released his EP Arobase which has his big song called Maman Bonheur. Check this song here

Desouza Santu has shown in the song that he is pretty good as a multi-tasker in sense of singing. Also this song is a very good Rumba song in the current Congolese music scene. Desouza's multi-choir singing was solid and his voice was pretty solid. I am sure this man must be at least 56 years old. He is very justified to be called Desouza Santu Mongongo Elengi. MONGONGO ELENGI.

The Maman Bonheur song got me thinking about which OKJ singer would have been perfect with Desouza Santu. It is Josky without doubt. These two men would have been gold together musically. 

I will give you four reasons why they would have been perfect together?

1) They are effective of the Africa Fiesta school sense of singing. 

2) They are great multi-taskers musically. 

3) They have solid songs on Rumba. 

4)  They know well where they stand vocally 

Fourth reason leading to me how they would sing together. Josky would sing in the low/middle note and Desouza Santu would sing in the high note. I am sure Josky would have had a blast singing with Desouza Santu. I think Josky should got Simaro to recruit Desouza Santu into Bana OK. Desouza had a voice well made for Bana OK. He was a good animator like Bana OK singer Shakembo. Shakembo was a good animator. But for a few Josky songs, Desouza could take over and put his own twist on animations. Desouza was a solid animator. 

Which leads to me being which song would be perfect for Desouza Santu and Josky Kiambukuta. 

The song here is called Point Faible. This song was on Josky's 1999 solo album POINT FAIBLE. This song should be a great duo song in my opinion. Josky can sing lead while Desouza and Josky do harmonies together. Also another reason why this song would be perfect is because Desouza Santu would do the animations. Desouza was a good animators during the final years of Empire Bakuba. 

That will be end of the Josky Kiambukuta tribute dream duet editions. Josky will remain one of the greatest Congolese singers to ever live.