{"id":553,"date":"2014-10-30T17:15:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T17:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/2014\/10\/30\/congolese-singer-babia-is-dead-2\/"},"modified":"2014-10-30T17:15:13","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T17:15:13","slug":"congolese-singer-babia-is-dead-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/congolese-singer-babia-is-dead-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Congolese Singer Babia Is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-full wp-image-552\" src=\"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Chanteur_Babia.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Chanteur_Babia.jpg 576w, https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Chanteur_Babia-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;\">The singer Babia Ndonga Shokoro, acclaimed as one of the finest vocalists in Koffi Olomid\u00e9\u2019s band Quartier Latin, passed away on Wednesday 8 October 2014 in Luanda, Angola, due to a stroke. Following a dizzy spell that occurred on the eve, the singer was in emergency taken for healthcare to a clinic of Prenda, a borough nearing the 4 de Fevereiro International Airport.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\" \/>  <!--more-->  <\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Babia passed on in Angola, where he had been sojourning for a year, while he was finalising the release of his first album <em>Vrai moment<\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">.<\/span><span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">His only one artwork released to date is the song Amen, which is part of album Magie that was released in 1994 by Koffi Olomid\u00e9 and Quartier Latin. It is within this band, where he evolved for 18 years under Koffi Olomid\u00e9\u2019s leadership, that Babia was revealed to the public. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">He finally decided to quit Quartier Latin, because he started suffocating due to the integration of Cindy le Coeur in the band, as he explained in an interview with Paulin Mukendi. \u201cKoffi Olomid\u00e9 raised her as the leading star at the expenses of these fine singers whom he demoted to the rank of back vocalists, thus becoming a stumbling block in their bid to accordingly exploit their talents\u201d, he said.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> <\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;\">Babia Ndonga participated in the making of several albums of Koffi Olomid\u00e9, as well as in the band\u2019s numerous tours in Africa, Europe and the USA.<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The singer Babia Ndonga Shokoro, acclaimed as one of the finest vocalists in Koffi Olomid\u00e9\u2019s&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}