Franco TPOK - Kinshasa Mboka Ya Makambo

From Graeme Ewens' "Congo Colossus": "When Franco took the stage he appeared triumphantly alone in the spotlight at the top of some steps wearing a white lace boubou and weighing, as he later told the TV presenter, about 120 kilos. He sang, unaccompanied, a slow talking bolero-blues type song, "Kinshasa Mboka Ya MKambo" (Kinshasa, Town of Problems) in which he spoke directly to the receptive studio audience about his love for and fidelity to Kinshasa, the town of many problems, a town he would always love even though he was accused of deserting it for Europe, where people suspected he made his wealth by running drugs. It was the spectacular entry of a supremely confident star returning to his own people. He had the audience in his grasp as he descended the staircase, speaking out his feelings in a slow and soulful way before calling for the blue Gibson guitar and making that do the talking. Once esconced in the wrap-around sound of the complete TP OK Jazz, Franco played a stunner, lest the people of Kinshasa had forgotten whose town it was."

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[zuluman2008]

oh he was a GENIUS!! FEARLESS TOO!!

[rahndi]

More fearless than most know. Flawed like any human being but in the area of life and music: Dangerous. Nobody more fearless and nobody more productive. Mangwana was right. A man like Franco comes along maybe once every hundred years. There will never be an artist who approaches his complexity especially in an African country where it is more difficult if impossible to make a living.

[Elnjoy]

The best guitarist of he's generation, listen that bolero swing of Africa,

Un des meilleurs de sa génération, j'ai appris lingala à travers la musique de ce génie, son boléro est à vous arrachez le coeur, c'est vrai que la musique adoucit les moeurs..

Paix à ton âme grand maître Luambo Makiadi

alias Franco de mi amor.....Rest on peace master....

[MrVaugelas]

Cette chanson explique tout dans la vie les personnes innocentes sont toujours accuser par ses ennemis :) FRANCO RIP t'es plus en vie mais tes chansons mourrant jamais comme on dit le svrai personnes nous quittes toujours dans la vie TP incomparable amen

[JagraMusic]

Just one thing - that is his Fender Jaguar, not a Gibson, he used a Jaguar from the mid 60's up til early - mid eighties

[JagraMusic]

Just one thing - that is his Fender Jaguar, not a Gibson, his guitar from late 60's up til mid eighties

[wayarco]

@rahndi U can say dat again. :-)

[Patmuamba]

@KAINFGIRL Oh non, pas de probleme.

[KAINFGIRL]

@Patmuamba merci d'avoir pris le temps de me repondre

merci

[Patmuamba]

@KAINFGIRL A l'epoque du regime de dictateur Mobutu, il y avait beaucoup de traffic d'influences au sein du regime. Et Franco avait des ennemis au sein du meme regime. Ces ennemis propageaient des "fausses" nouvelles que Franco avait fait tuer les politicians zairois qui vivaient en Europe et qu'il traffiquait du chanvre en Europe. Donc ces gens voulaient que Franco soit arrete. C'est un peu cela.

Patrick Muamba

USA

[KAINFGIRL]

bojour,

Est ce que quelqu'un sait pourquoi il y a tant d'emotion dans cette chanson

Que lui etait il arrivé ?

[Joeroundtheworld]

Beautiful.

[KANKOU23]

C'est tellement emouvant...