Een selectie van hits uit de tachtiger jaren van de vorige eeuw. De glorietijd van de de Congolese soukous. De van de Cubaanse rumba afgeleide populaire dansmuziek. Ideaal voor een vrolijke, zwoele zomernacht.(GR Muziekbank)
Pépé Kallé was born Kabasele Yampanya in Kinshasa (then Léopoldville) in the Belgian Congo, but later assumed his pseudonym in hommage to his mentor, Le Grand Kallé. With a multi-octave vocal range and a dynamic stage presence, the and vocalist recorded more than three hundred songs and twenty albums during his two-decade-long career. Known affectionately as "the elephant of African music" and "La Bombe Atomique," Kallé entertained audiences with his robust performances. The guitarist was Solomon. (Muziekweb)
Pepe Kallé verliet in 1972, samen met Dilu Dilumona en Papy Tex de band Orchestre Lipua Lipua waar ze toen in speelden, om Empire Bakuba op te richten. De band was vanaf het begin een grote hit en werd in de jaren 80 een van Zaïres topgroepen. Zijn samenwerking met Nyboma, met name dit album, Moyibi, hun tweede, uit 1988 maakte hen bekend in heel Afrika. (TH Muziekbank)
"Pépé Kallé, 1951 -1998 was a Congolese soukous singer, musician and bandleader. With a multi-octave vocal range and a dynamic stage presence, the 210 cm and 150 kg vocalist recorded more than three hundred songs and twenty albums during his two-decade-long career. Known affectionately as "the elephant of African music" and "La Bombe Atomique," Kallé entertained audiences with his robust performances. Part of Empire Bakuba in the 70s and 80s this CD is of his later days, 1994, under his own name." (Wikipedia)
Pepe Kallé verliet in 1972, samen met Dilu Dilumona en Papy Tex de band Lipua Lipua waar ze toen in speelden, om Empire Bakuba op te richten. De band was vanaf het begin een grote hit en werd in de jaren 80 een van Zaïres topgroepen. Zijn samenwerking met Nyboma, met name hun tweede album Moyibi uit 1988 maakte hen bekend in heel Afrika. Het album 'Hommage À Emoro' is een eerbetoon aan Emoro, de dansende dwerg van de band die in 1992, tijdens een tour in Botswana, overleed. (TH Muziekbank)|
Pépé Kallé, sometimes written as Pepe Kalle (1951 – 1998) was a soukous singer, musician and bandleader from the Democratic Republic of Congo. His musical career started with l'African Jazz, the band of Le Grand Kallé. He later performed in Bella Bella and became the lead singer of Lipua Lipua, where he sang alongside Nyboma Mwandido. In 1972, Kallé along with Dilu Dilumona and Papy Tex, left Lipua Lipua to form their own band named Empire Bakuba. Empire Bakuba took its name from a Congolese warrior tribe, and it pointedly incorporated rootsy rhythms from the interior, sounds that had long been sidelined by popular rumba. The band was an instant hit, and together with Zaiko Langa Langa they became Kinshasa's most popular youth band. With hits such as 'Dadou" and 'Sango ya mawa', the band was a constant fixture on the charts. They also created a new dance, the kwassa kwassa. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Kallé fused elements of the fast-paced version of soukous produced in Paris studios. (Muziekweb)|
"Empire Bakuba was founded in 1972 by Pepe Kalle, Papy Tex and Dilu Dilumona, who were all at the time members of Lipua Lipua, They quickly established themselves as one of the leading youth bands of Kinshasa, becoming a constant presence in the Congolese charts and a major part of the soukous scene in the 1970s and 1980s. Empire Bakuba's sound was characterized by the strong influence of Congolese traditional and tribal music. This also reflects in the kwassa kwassa, a dance style that was popularized by Empire Bakuba and later adopted by several other Congolese acts, most notably Kanda Bongo Man and Koffi Olomide. Empire Bakuba's live performances were highly scenographic, with frontman Pepe Kalle, who was six feet tall and weighing 300 pounds, accompanied by dwarf dancer Emoro. In 1992 the band had to face Emoro's sudden death. By this time, the apex of Empire Bakuba's success had passed, yet the group remained quite popular."
Congolese zanger/bandleider (van Empire Bakuba) die net als bijv. Papa Wemba een inventieve cross-over tussen traditionele West-Afrikaanse ritmes en westerse muziek weet te maken. 'Le Bombe Atomique de la musique de Congo' is z'n geuzennaam.
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