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Congo was released on VHS and LaserDisc on November 21, 1995. The LaserDisc release is THX certified and consists of widescreen and pan and scan fullscreen versions, while also featuring a Dolby Digital AC-3 track. [8] A widescreen VHS release debuted a year later on September 10, 1996. [9] The DVD was released on July 27, 1999.
The music video for "Congo", directed by Howard Greenhalgh, features industrialised imagery, with the band playing in a heavily guarded shipyard manned with slave labour. Massive water cannons are used to control uprisings, and the band is frequently doused with water throughout the video. The video was shot at the Mediterranean Film Studios in ...
"Gangsta's Paradise" by Coolio (pictured) was the number one song on the Year-End chart after spending 12 weeks in the top-two of the Hot 100, three of which were spent at number one.
Call it soukous, rumba, Zairois, Congo music, or kwassa-kwassa, the pop sound emanating from Congo's capital, Kinshasa has shaped modern African culture more profoundly than any other. Africa produces music genres that are direct derivatives of Congolese Soukous. Some of the African bands sing in Lingala, the main language in the DRC.
The website's consensus reads: "A warm retrospective on a modern master, this documentary is a symphonic treat for anyone who loves music in the movies -- or just plain great music." [4] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 74 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. [5]
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Local music scholars argue that Koffi and Cindy's partnership follows that of Tabu Ley Rochereau and M'bilia Bel, an earlier popular music duo in Kinshasa. [ 2 ] In 2009, she received two awards for Best Female Artist in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and later that year, she received the Best of Generation Award at Zénith Paris . [ 4 ]
"Freedom" was recorded immediately following the 1995 American Music Awards. In addition to uplifting women today, the song honors historical black resistance figures such as Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Rosa Parks, and Angela Davis. It is a cover version of the song by Joi from her album The Pendulum Vibe, released in 1994.