“Bimi Ombale and I realized that our destinies were tied together,” the singer Mbuta Mashakado did not know what to say in response to the death of Mwana Wabi in an interview with Afriqu’Echos: 40 days later, he joined his Zaiko Langa Langa friend and colleague in the afterlife.
It was last Wednesday, June 22 at 3:00 in the morning, that “Yaya Brown” passed away in a hospital bed in South Africa. Premonition or just a phrase said like that, Mashakado has left the scene, the all scene, a sort of joke that contrasts with those that dotted his many stage performances of madness. Despite the optimism he displayed in that interview, the disease put to rest one of the biggest beasts of the Congolese musical scene has ever known.
Mbuta Mashakado has not had a truly great career, but a career marked by bursts of shots on stage and in the lives of two bands within which he excelled: Zaiko Langa Langa and Yoka Lokole created by the dissidents of the first city . In Zaiko Langa Langa, also very noticeable in his voice, “Elo” (probably the biggest hit of the band), one of his live performances televised in the song “Beli Mashakado” remains a piece of anthology. His explosive temper on stage, all the time, went very well the singer’s strong character. Later, Papa Wemba will pay the price by being dismissed without consideration by Mashakado before he himself even leaves the group and go back on stage one day to announce his return ” Na canaille kaka “, translate: “I’m back and don’t give a damn about you. “
After further disappointments with Yoka Lokole who sank after the departure of Papa Wemba, Mbuta Mashakado will go to Europe for studies. He will return to Kinshasa in 1988 with expertise in electricity and in refrigeration. The singer then asked to return to Zaiko Langa Langa but the administrators asked him to formalize it in writing. For Yaya Brown, it would be a humiliation he refuses. When the experienced a dissent, He chose the Zaiko Familia Dei camp with Bimi Ombale and Pablo particular.
The last spectacular card of Mbuta Mashakado
In a conversation we had had on his return, Mbuta Mashakado promised to show that he had lost none of his talent. And the showman will speak on the day of the official release of Familia Dei at the Intercontinental Hotel. The band was playing the last song on a stage about 80 cm high. The singer indulges in some booming dance, skating, turning on him and jumping … Bimi Ombale and JP Buse who are afraid to take elbows or feet stop dancing, desert their places and will be placed on the edge of the stage. The singer, unleashed, does not care, it is in his element and did not even realize. Lengi Lenga, who got amused, will make a tape to Mashakado and propose a duel. The two singers face each other. Very good dancer, Ya Lengos gives dance lessons to his colleague who looks like a cat. After this observation time, Yaya Brown will skate backwards to the edge of the stage, when it comes to dancing Lengi Lenga is a hurricane that tumbles, Mashakado dance with such energy that her partner left the stage speed with a big laugh … The whole room is standing, subjugated, conquered! On this fireworks the concert ended.
Half an hour later, Mbuta Mashakado, hands in pockets, eyes sparkling, mischievous smile came towards me trying to get from me a compliment, I then launched warmly, “Brown Yaya! “In a burst of laughter we throw ourselves into each other’s arms. Since then, our paths did not cross anymore un until this interview forty days ago with Jossart Muanza whom he asked to greet me warmly on his behalf. Goodbye my friend! |
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