TABU LEY "PASCAL ROCHEREAU "AFARIKI DUNIA
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Sunday, December 1, 2013
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Mwanamuziki
wa Kikongo wa siku nyingi Pascal Rochereau Tabu Ley amefariki dunia jana Novemba
30, 2013 akiwa na umri wa miaka 73.
Msanii maarufu kama Baba wa Rhumba, Raia wa nchi ya Demokrasia ya Kongo, Tabu Ley Rochereau Amefariki akiwa na Umri wa Miaka 73.
Kwa mujibu wa Taarifa kutoka kwa Ndugu wa Mfalme huyo katika muziki wa Afrika, Tabu Ley amekutwa na umauti akiwa katika Hospitali moja nchini Ubelgeji ambako alikuwa anapata matibabu.
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Tributes
poured in for the singer-songwriter whose melodies touched generations across
Africa, as his son-in-law said a state funeral would be held in Kinshasa, where
Tabu Ley would also be buried.
Tabu
Ley, who had also been a politician, had never recovered from a stroke in 2008
and his situation deteriorated on Monday, said the son-in-law Jean-Claude
Muissa.
Born
November 13, 1937 in a small village in the western Congolese province of
Bandundu, Pascal Tabu Ley, also known as “Rochereau”, became the star of
Congolese rumba in the 1960s.
With
his songs including Adios
Thethe and Mokolo
nakokufa (the day of my death), Tabu Ley helped popularise the
music genre, and in 1970 became the first African musician to perform at the
Paris Olympia music hall.
“He
was a superstar in all of Africa,” said Francois Bensignor from Paris-based
music centre IRMA.
He
was also once acclaimed by news magazine Jeune Afrique “as the Congolese personality
who, along with (former Congolese president) Mobutu, marked Africa’s 20th
century history,” said Leon Tsambu, a specialist in Congolese music.
At
home, Tabu Ley was not just a musician, but also dabbled in politics.
He
had hoped to become minister of culture under president Laurent-Desire Kabila –
the father of President Joseph Kabila, but eventually settled for the post of
vice-governor of Kinshasa.
He
was forced into exile during Mobutu Sese Seko’s rule that spanned 1965 to 1997,
and in 1990, the strongman’s regime banned his album Trop, c’est trop (Too much is
too much).
Tabu Ley Rochereau was a leading musician 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.
Died:
November
30, 2013
Albums:
Africa
Worldwide, MoreHabari Zingine
Mjulishe Mwenzako
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