Mbilia Bel
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M'bilia Bel (born January 10, 1956) is a rumba and world music singer from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Many Mbilia Bel songs become very popular and trendy online with a great number of streaming and downloads on Boomplay.
She is known as the "Queen of Congolese and African Rumba". She rose to fame after first being discovered by Sam Manguana and later by Tabu Ley Rochereau who helped her gain confidence, master her powerful soprano voice, and achieve acclaim as one of the best Congolese female singers.
M'bilia Bel became successful in the early 1980s when she joined Tabu Ley Rochereau's band (Afrisa International).They made several albums together. In the mid-1980s, the birth of their first child prompted her to take a break from performing for a year: however, after her last album with Tabu Ley in 1988, she moved to Paris.
There she started working with guitarist Rigo Star Bamundele and, between 1989 and 1990, toured the United States, Europe, and West Africa.
Career
At the age of seventeen, Mbilia Bel began her performing career, singing as a backup singer for Abeti Masikini, the "Queen of Perfumed Soukous," and later with Sam Mangwana. As Tabu Ley's protegee, she leveraged his composing genius and her own voice to produce many hits for l'Orchestre Afrisa International.
Mbilia Bel's first song with Afrisa, released in 1981, was "Mpeve Ya Longo" ("Holy Spirit" in Kikongo), a moving song about spousal abuse. In the song, she tells the story of a woman who had been abandoned by her husband and has to raise her children by herself. The song was popular, especially among women in Zaire.
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Achievement.
Mbilia Bel's first album, released in 1982, was Eswi yo wapi. The title song, which roughly translates to "Where did it hurt you?", was composed by both Tabu Ley and M'bilia Bel. The song won the award for the best song of 1982 in Zaire, and M'bilia Bel won the award for best newcomer.
Other songs on the album such as Tabu Ley's "Lisanga ya Bambanda", "Kelhia", and Dino Vangu's "Quelle Mechancete" were big hits for Afrisa International. Afrisa's popularity began to rival that of Franco's band TP.OK Jazz, thanks to the arrival of the woman who was referred to as "The Cleopatra of Congolese music".
M'bilia Bel quickly became the main attraction at Afrisa's concerts in the Congo and wherever they toured, often whipping huge crowds into a frenzy when she joined the Rocherettes (dancers) in their routines.[citation needed] By the mid-1980s, Mbilia bel officially married Tabu Ley and gave birth to a daughter named Melody Tabu.
Mbilia Bel's songs continued to dominate the Congolese music scene, among them "Mobali na ngai wana" ("This Husband of Mine"), composed by Tabu Ley and Roger Izeidi, an adaptation of a traditional song in Kikongo. In the song, M'bilia Bel praises her husband as being handsome and successful and stresses that even though he has the opportunity to choose from any of Kinshasa's beautiful women, he chose her.
Other songs that dominated the charts during her reign in Afrisa included "Balle a terre", "Bameli soy", "Ba gerants ya Mabala", "Keyna", "Cadence Mudanda", "Bafosami", "Nakei Nairobi", "Ba jeux de Coin", "Paka Wewe", "Boya Ye", "Yamba Ngai", "ShaWuri Yako" "Beyanga", and "La Beaute D'une Femme".
She also has a special playlist which made of her songs: https://www.boomplaymusic.com/share/playlist/14049267
In 1987, Tabu Ley recruited another female artist to accompany M'bilia Bel. Kishila Ngoyi was known as "Faya Tess". It was with this new line-up that Afrisa embarked on a tour of East Africa that took in Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda, culminating in the album Nadina, which had Lingala and Swahili versions of the title song. The tour was well received.
M'bilia Bel took center stage, overshadowing other Afrisa artists including Ndombe Opetum, who had returned from T.P OK Jazz. Upon their return to Kinshasa, rumours started surfacing about a rift between Tabu ley and M'bilia Bel. Both publicly denied having any problems when they were interviewed by journalists.
M'bilia Bel quit the band late in early 1988 to embark on a solo career. She briefly utilized a Gabonese producer in Libreville before leaving for Paris, where she joined guitarist Rigo Star Bamundele. Her first album with Rigo Star, entitled Phénomène, was a huge success in Kinshasa as well as abroad. Subsequent releases such as Desolé, 8/10 Benedicta, Yalowa, and Exploration met with limited success.
Following the departure of M'bilia Bel, the popularity of Afrisa International as a band decreased substantially. Tabu Ley himself seemed to lose inspiration for composing as is evidenced by the substantial reduction in the number of albums released.With the exception of her debut album, Phénomène, Mbilia Bel's career also lost energy when she left Afrisa.
She lived in Paris for almost six years to expand her European horizons, but in...more
Country/Region : Democratic Republic of the Congo
She is known as the "Queen of Congolese and African Rumba". She rose to fame after first being discovered by Sam Manguana and later by Tabu Ley Rochereau who helped her gain confidence, master her powerful soprano voice, and achieve acclaim as one of the best Congolese female singers.
M'bilia Bel became successful in the early 1980s when she joined Tabu Ley Rochereau's band (Afrisa International).They made several albums together. In the mid-1980s, the birth of their first child prompted her to take a break from performing for a year: however, after her last album with Tabu Ley in 1988, she moved to Paris.
There she started working with guitarist Rigo Star Bamundele and, between 1989 and 1990, toured the United States, Europe, and West Africa.
Career
At the age of seventeen, Mbilia Bel began her performing career, singing as a backup singer for Abeti Masikini, the "Queen of Perfumed Soukous," and later with Sam Mangwana. As Tabu Ley's protegee, she leveraged his composing genius and her own voice to produce many hits for l'Orchestre Afrisa International.
Mbilia Bel's first song with Afrisa, released in 1981, was "Mpeve Ya Longo" ("Holy Spirit" in Kikongo), a moving song about spousal abuse. In the song, she tells the story of a woman who had been abandoned by her husband and has to raise her children by herself. The song was popular, especially among women in Zaire.
Follow Boomplay and keep up-to-date with the latest Mbilia Bel songs and information.
Achievement.
Mbilia Bel's first album, released in 1982, was Eswi yo wapi. The title song, which roughly translates to "Where did it hurt you?", was composed by both Tabu Ley and M'bilia Bel. The song won the award for the best song of 1982 in Zaire, and M'bilia Bel won the award for best newcomer.
Other songs on the album such as Tabu Ley's "Lisanga ya Bambanda", "Kelhia", and Dino Vangu's "Quelle Mechancete" were big hits for Afrisa International. Afrisa's popularity began to rival that of Franco's band TP.OK Jazz, thanks to the arrival of the woman who was referred to as "The Cleopatra of Congolese music".
M'bilia Bel quickly became the main attraction at Afrisa's concerts in the Congo and wherever they toured, often whipping huge crowds into a frenzy when she joined the Rocherettes (dancers) in their routines.[citation needed] By the mid-1980s, Mbilia bel officially married Tabu Ley and gave birth to a daughter named Melody Tabu.
Mbilia Bel's songs continued to dominate the Congolese music scene, among them "Mobali na ngai wana" ("This Husband of Mine"), composed by Tabu Ley and Roger Izeidi, an adaptation of a traditional song in Kikongo. In the song, M'bilia Bel praises her husband as being handsome and successful and stresses that even though he has the opportunity to choose from any of Kinshasa's beautiful women, he chose her.
Other songs that dominated the charts during her reign in Afrisa included "Balle a terre", "Bameli soy", "Ba gerants ya Mabala", "Keyna", "Cadence Mudanda", "Bafosami", "Nakei Nairobi", "Ba jeux de Coin", "Paka Wewe", "Boya Ye", "Yamba Ngai", "ShaWuri Yako" "Beyanga", and "La Beaute D'une Femme".
She also has a special playlist which made of her songs: https://www.boomplaymusic.com/share/playlist/14049267
In 1987, Tabu Ley recruited another female artist to accompany M'bilia Bel. Kishila Ngoyi was known as "Faya Tess". It was with this new line-up that Afrisa embarked on a tour of East Africa that took in Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda, culminating in the album Nadina, which had Lingala and Swahili versions of the title song. The tour was well received.
M'bilia Bel took center stage, overshadowing other Afrisa artists including Ndombe Opetum, who had returned from T.P OK Jazz. Upon their return to Kinshasa, rumours started surfacing about a rift between Tabu ley and M'bilia Bel. Both publicly denied having any problems when they were interviewed by journalists.
M'bilia Bel quit the band late in early 1988 to embark on a solo career. She briefly utilized a Gabonese producer in Libreville before leaving for Paris, where she joined guitarist Rigo Star Bamundele. Her first album with Rigo Star, entitled Phénomène, was a huge success in Kinshasa as well as abroad. Subsequent releases such as Desolé, 8/10 Benedicta, Yalowa, and Exploration met with limited success.
Following the departure of M'bilia Bel, the popularity of Afrisa International as a band decreased substantially. Tabu Ley himself seemed to lose inspiration for composing as is evidenced by the substantial reduction in the number of albums released.With the exception of her debut album, Phénomène, Mbilia Bel's career also lost energy when she left Afrisa.
She lived in Paris for almost six years to expand her European horizons, but in...more
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Mbilia Bel Biography
M'bilia Bel (born January 10, 1956) is a rumba and world music singer from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Many Mbilia Bel songs become very popular and trendy online with a great number of streaming and downloads on Boomplay.
She is known as the "Queen of Congolese and African Rumba". She rose to fame after first being discovered by Sam Manguana and later by Tabu Ley Rochereau who helped her gain confidence, master her powerful soprano voice, and achieve acclaim as one of the best Congolese female singers.
M'bilia Bel became successful in the early 1980s when she joined Tabu Ley Rochereau's band (Afrisa International).They made several albums together. In the mid-1980s, the birth of their first child prompted her to take a break from performing for a year: however, after her last album with Tabu Ley in 1988, she moved to Paris.
There she started working with guitarist Rigo Star Bamundele and, between 1989 and 1990, toured the United States, Europe, and West Africa.
Career
At the age of seventeen, Mbilia Bel began her performing career, singing as a backup singer for Abeti Masikini, the "Queen of Perfumed Soukous," and later with Sam Mangwana. As Tabu Ley's protegee, she leveraged his composing genius and her own voice to produce many hits for l'Orchestre Afrisa International.
Mbilia Bel's first song with Afrisa, released in 1981, was "Mpeve Ya Longo" ("Holy Spirit" in Kikongo), a moving song about spousal abuse. In the song, she tells the story of a woman who had been abandoned by her husband and has to raise her children by herself. The song was popular, especially among women in Zaire.
Follow Boomplay and keep up-to-date with the latest Mbilia Bel songs and information.
Achievement.
Mbilia Bel's first album, released in 1982, was Eswi yo wapi. The title song, which roughly translates to "Where did it hurt you?", was composed by both Tabu Ley and M'bilia Bel. The song won the award for the best song of 1982 in Zaire, and M'bilia Bel won the award for best newcomer.
Other songs on the album such as Tabu Ley's "Lisanga ya Bambanda", "Kelhia", and Dino Vangu's "Quelle Mechancete" were big hits for Afrisa International. Afrisa's popularity began to rival that of Franco's band TP.OK Jazz, thanks to the arrival of the woman who was referred to as "The Cleopatra of Congolese music".
M'bilia Bel quickly became the main attraction at Afrisa's concerts in the Congo and wherever they toured, often whipping huge crowds into a frenzy when she joined the Rocherettes (dancers) in their routines.[citation needed] By the mid-1980s, Mbilia bel officially married Tabu Ley and gave birth to a daughter named Melody Tabu.
Mbilia Bel's songs continued to dominate the Congolese music scene, among them "Mobali na ngai wana" ("This Husband of Mine"), composed by Tabu Ley and Roger Izeidi, an adaptation of a traditional song in Kikongo. In the song, M'bilia Bel praises her husband as being handsome and successful and stresses that even though he has the opportunity to choose from any of Kinshasa's beautiful women, he chose her.
Other songs that dominated the charts during her reign in Afrisa included "Balle a terre", "Bameli soy", "Ba gerants ya Mabala", "Keyna", "Cadence Mudanda", "Bafosami", "Nakei Nairobi", "Ba jeux de Coin", "Paka Wewe", "Boya Ye", "Yamba Ngai", "ShaWuri Yako" "Beyanga", and "La Beaute D'une Femme".
She also has a special playlist which made of her songs: https://www.boomplaymusic.com/share/playlist/14049267
In 1987, Tabu Ley recruited another female artist to accompany M'bilia Bel. Kishila Ngoyi was known as "Faya Tess". It was with this new line-up that Afrisa embarked on a tour of East Africa that took in Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda, culminating in the album Nadina, which had Lingala and Swahili versions of the title song. The tour was well received.
M'bilia Bel took center stage, overshadowing other Afrisa artists including Ndombe Opetum, who had returned from T.P OK Jazz. Upon their return to Kinshasa, rumours started surfacing about a rift between Tabu ley and M'bilia Bel. Both publicly denied having any problems when they were interviewed by journalists.
M'bilia Bel quit the band late in early 1988 to embark on a solo career. She briefly utilized a Gabonese producer in Libreville before leaving for Paris, where she joined guitarist Rigo Star Bamundele. Her first album with Rigo Star, entitled Phénomène, was a huge success in Kinshasa as well as abroad. Subsequent releases such as Desolé, 8/10 Benedicta, Yalowa, and Exploration met with limited success.
Following the departure of M'bilia Bel, the popularity of Afrisa International as a band decreased substantially. Tabu Ley himself seemed to lose inspiration for composing as is evidenced by the substantial reduction in the number of albums released.With the exception of her debut album, Phénomène, Mbilia Bel's career also lost energy when she left Afrisa.
She lived in Paris for almost six years to expand her European horizons, but in
She is known as the "Queen of Congolese and African Rumba". She rose to fame after first being discovered by Sam Manguana and later by Tabu Ley Rochereau who helped her gain confidence, master her powerful soprano voice, and achieve acclaim as one of the best Congolese female singers.
M'bilia Bel became successful in the early 1980s when she joined Tabu Ley Rochereau's band (Afrisa International).They made several albums together. In the mid-1980s, the birth of their first child prompted her to take a break from performing for a year: however, after her last album with Tabu Ley in 1988, she moved to Paris.
There she started working with guitarist Rigo Star Bamundele and, between 1989 and 1990, toured the United States, Europe, and West Africa.
Career
At the age of seventeen, Mbilia Bel began her performing career, singing as a backup singer for Abeti Masikini, the "Queen of Perfumed Soukous," and later with Sam Mangwana. As Tabu Ley's protegee, she leveraged his composing genius and her own voice to produce many hits for l'Orchestre Afrisa International.
Mbilia Bel's first song with Afrisa, released in 1981, was "Mpeve Ya Longo" ("Holy Spirit" in Kikongo), a moving song about spousal abuse. In the song, she tells the story of a woman who had been abandoned by her husband and has to raise her children by herself. The song was popular, especially among women in Zaire.
Follow Boomplay and keep up-to-date with the latest Mbilia Bel songs and information.
Achievement.
Mbilia Bel's first album, released in 1982, was Eswi yo wapi. The title song, which roughly translates to "Where did it hurt you?", was composed by both Tabu Ley and M'bilia Bel. The song won the award for the best song of 1982 in Zaire, and M'bilia Bel won the award for best newcomer.
Other songs on the album such as Tabu Ley's "Lisanga ya Bambanda", "Kelhia", and Dino Vangu's "Quelle Mechancete" were big hits for Afrisa International. Afrisa's popularity began to rival that of Franco's band TP.OK Jazz, thanks to the arrival of the woman who was referred to as "The Cleopatra of Congolese music".
M'bilia Bel quickly became the main attraction at Afrisa's concerts in the Congo and wherever they toured, often whipping huge crowds into a frenzy when she joined the Rocherettes (dancers) in their routines.[citation needed] By the mid-1980s, Mbilia bel officially married Tabu Ley and gave birth to a daughter named Melody Tabu.
Mbilia Bel's songs continued to dominate the Congolese music scene, among them "Mobali na ngai wana" ("This Husband of Mine"), composed by Tabu Ley and Roger Izeidi, an adaptation of a traditional song in Kikongo. In the song, M'bilia Bel praises her husband as being handsome and successful and stresses that even though he has the opportunity to choose from any of Kinshasa's beautiful women, he chose her.
Other songs that dominated the charts during her reign in Afrisa included "Balle a terre", "Bameli soy", "Ba gerants ya Mabala", "Keyna", "Cadence Mudanda", "Bafosami", "Nakei Nairobi", "Ba jeux de Coin", "Paka Wewe", "Boya Ye", "Yamba Ngai", "ShaWuri Yako" "Beyanga", and "La Beaute D'une Femme".
She also has a special playlist which made of her songs: https://www.boomplaymusic.com/share/playlist/14049267
In 1987, Tabu Ley recruited another female artist to accompany M'bilia Bel. Kishila Ngoyi was known as "Faya Tess". It was with this new line-up that Afrisa embarked on a tour of East Africa that took in Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda, culminating in the album Nadina, which had Lingala and Swahili versions of the title song. The tour was well received.
M'bilia Bel took center stage, overshadowing other Afrisa artists including Ndombe Opetum, who had returned from T.P OK Jazz. Upon their return to Kinshasa, rumours started surfacing about a rift between Tabu ley and M'bilia Bel. Both publicly denied having any problems when they were interviewed by journalists.
M'bilia Bel quit the band late in early 1988 to embark on a solo career. She briefly utilized a Gabonese producer in Libreville before leaving for Paris, where she joined guitarist Rigo Star Bamundele. Her first album with Rigo Star, entitled Phénomène, was a huge success in Kinshasa as well as abroad. Subsequent releases such as Desolé, 8/10 Benedicta, Yalowa, and Exploration met with limited success.
Following the departure of M'bilia Bel, the popularity of Afrisa International as a band decreased substantially. Tabu Ley himself seemed to lose inspiration for composing as is evidenced by the substantial reduction in the number of albums released.With the exception of her debut album, Phénomène, Mbilia Bel's career also lost energy when she left Afrisa.
She lived in Paris for almost six years to expand her European horizons, but in
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