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Simaro Massiya Lutumba Ndomanueno (19 March 1938 – 30 March 2019), known as Simaro, was a Congolese music rhythm guitarist, songwriter, poet, composer, and bandleader. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He was a member of the seminal Congo music band TPOK Jazz , which dominated the music scene in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from the 1960s to the 1980s.
On 29 March 2008, she appeared at Simaro Lutumba's Vivement Simaro, merci l'artiste concert at the Pullman Kinshasa Grand Hotel to celebrate his 70th birthday, [79] [80] [81] and later performed at Tshala Muana's concert at the same venue to mark her 30-year music career.
Around this time, Simaro Lutumba released an album outside the OK Jazz system, featuring the song "Maya". During the same timeframe, Malage de Lugendo , a vocalist, was recruited. Also Kiesse Diambu ya Ntessa from Afrisa and female vocalist Jolie Detta came on board.
In 1985, Detta joined Tabu Ley's Orchestre Afrisa International [7] [8] [9] and then Franco Luambo's Ok Jazz in 1986, where she gained national recognition as the lead vocalist in the band's Extended Play (EP) Le Grand Maitre Franco et son Tout Puissant O.K. Jazz et Jolie Detta, in collaboration with Franco and Simaro Lutumba.
Lutumba is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: ... Joseph Lutumba, Congolese lyricist; Simaro Lutumba (1938–2019), Congolese soukous rhythm ...
He was born in Bukavu, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). He attended Boboto College in Kinshasa, the capital of the DRC. During the timeframe of 1976 and 1977, then a teenager aged 15 or 16, he became actively involved in music.
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Ndombe Opetum was the lead vocalist for Afrisa International, prior to joining TPOK Jazz, in the mid-1970s, after Sam Mangwana had left the band. He came over to TPOK Jazz with horn player Empopo Loway, and he stayed with the band until it split up in December 1993, four years after the death of founder François Luambo Makiadi.