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The band was nominated numerous times for the MYX Music Awards. In 2013, Soul Adventurer was released as the band's second album. With the new lineup on board, the group won Best Alternative Recording (Awit Awards) for the song Better Days. [6] On November 9, 2014, FRANCO launched an EP titled Frank! at the St. James Power Station in Sentosa ...
"Mario" is a song by Congolese guitarist Franco and his group TPOK Jazz from his eponymous 1985 album. It is considered to be the musician's biggest hit. [1] Written and composed by Franco, the theme of the song is the story of a gigolo who lives with an older woman. Although he is a graduate, he prefers to spend his partner's money. [2]
A young Franco Luambo playing the six-string guitar on a wooden chair outside a house in Léopoldville in 1956. François Luambo Luanzo Makiadi was born on 6 July 1938 in Sona-Bata [], a town located in then-Bas-Congo Province (now Kongo Central), in what was then the Belgian Congo (later the Republic of the Congo, then Zaire, and currently the Democratic Republic of the Congo).
Franco and Afro Musica is a twelve piece kwasa kwasa band from Gabane, Botswana.. The band was founded by Frank "Franco" Lesokwane. As is the norm in the soukous (Congolese rumba) circles for artists to go by more than one names, Lesokwane also goes by several other names like Stango, Molamu, Lepako and Chakala.
The recordings took place at Sharkbite Studios in Oakland, California. The band then toured Europe with Gaahls Wyrd and Tribulation. [3] Idle Hands' debut album Mana, produced by Gabriel Franco and Sebastian Silva, was released on May 10, 2019. [7] Brandon Hill joined the band as a permanent bassist the same year. [8]
OK Jazz, later renamed TPOK Jazz (short for Tout Puissant Orchestre Kinois de Jazz), was a Congolese rumba band from the Democratic Republic of the Congo established in 1956 and fronted by Franco. The group disbanded in 1993, but reformed in 1996.
Katie Holmes is bringing stirrup pants back, whether you're here for their return or not.. The actress, 45, stepped out in New York City ahead of Thanksgiving Day, sporting the polarizing '80s ...
Joseph Kiambukuta Londa, known as Josky Kiambukuta, (14 February 1949 – 7 March 2021) was a Congolese performing artist, singer, songwriter and composer. [2] As a member of TPOK Jazz [3] he played alongside Franco during their most popular period in the mid-1960s until the late 1980s.