Verckys and Veve - Ndona

VOK (pre-KBC) played this one to the bone, and I saw more than a couple of adults break into tears, being a kid then!
Maybe the experts can tell us something more about it - anything Kindu? Nasipwondi? AS? Anyone?

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• Ndona
• Vintage
• verckys
• Fukiau
• pepito
• Lingala
• kiamuangana
• mateta
• Aladji
• nguendi
• Sinatra
• saak-saakul
• Tino
• muinkua

[Molegend101]

If you to know the story behind this song then u would appreciate it more. The Actual recording was made as Verckys was crying. Becoz of his late Mother

[larryboy1995]

@Molegend101 Thank you very much, sir. Knowing this helps me appreciate the song even more. Listening to it always brought tears to my eyes. I always wondered how someone could shed such genuine tears during the making of a song, and this bit of information from you makes it all clear! If I lost my dear and most beloved mother, i would shed endless tears too!....thanks so much!

[jepkemei]

memories are sure made of these

[larryboy1995]

Kongoi missing, jepkemei...its a sweet song, aint it?

[tcjay1]

This was when music was created by men and not machine. every time you listen to it, sounds so refreshing

[josephinekiwanuka]

Whenever i listen to Ndona it reminds of the golden times of the seventies. Very nice I am glad I am sharing it with so many people. I will never have enough of these oldie tunes long live to the people who kept them safe.

[etesot001]

Simply beautiful, and the emotion so genuine and so human!

[alexandrinezeina]

voilà la bonne musique et la vraie avec un sens ça touche un moins quelqu'un ,pas la musique d'aujourdui quand nos stars s'insultent entre eux et s'affiche devant leurs voitures de luxe,comme si Johnny Hallyday montre sa maison aux français,c'est dommage,on les attends plus à faire de l'humanitaire et la socail mais la bassesse d'pesrit les emprisonne ..Je pleure notre mère l'afrique. Qu'a nous fait au bon Dieu pour tant de soufrance!

[mzuvendi]

Great music by perfect, talented musicians not compared with todays crap BS!!

[akuraom]

Where did the saxaphone and trumpet disappear to in soukous music of today?

[yetira8]

no comment inajaza  its a moving piece of music

[tbwanat]

@Jarawilla ar u sure of wht u said abt Testament ya Bowule? Lutumba's tribute to HIS GRANNY? Lutumba's granny might hav died bt I think Testament wasnt her tribute. It's a tribute to Bowule-a friend of Lutumba's who'd died. It's a eulogy. in my language back in Kenya we call it neno. Actually Lutumba is impersonating Bowule's sister 2 compose th song. I may b wrong, anyway.

[odayokodo]

Yes, those of us who were teenagers during the peak of this piece had the opportunity to dance- of course with beautiful age mates at high school. I am sorry to learn that it was about death!

[khamano48]

Ndona had been wonderful. I compare the emotion and excitement to one Nigerian recording about Spud Nathan who died riding a commercial transport to join his band group after the civil war in Nigeria.

Also, I can recall how some of the Nigeria Soldiers stationed in my vilage Okon_Aku in Ohafia, Nigeria used to abandon their posts and danced and shouted "Na waitin Ndona dey cry?". Where is Vercky Veve, if you are still alive, please schedule a musical tour in the U.S.

Khama1948.

[dnderitu]

This reminds me of my dad who used to sing it word for word, yet he knew very little Lingala or French. My goodness, listen to those voices and the instruments! I doubt if we shall ever this type of music ever again as our crop of music today are in too much a hurry to make money and hence they are giving us raw music. Well, this is such a great piece.

[Jarawilla]

@jwfslmr This is in the same category as Testament ya Boule, Lutumba's tribute to his granny who reared him. Hauntingly painful, every note is honest, and as such, eternal. But perhaps ahead of their time, the guys are wailing about the genocide yet to happen in the Congo in the 90s! Like when wolves wail, and folks know the season is gonna change for ill and worse! 6:04-