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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.
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.
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.
Simaro Lutumba (1938–2019), Congolese soukous rhythm guitarist, songwriter and bandleader This page was last edited on 19 April 2020, at 01:40 (UTC). ...
Marie-Claire Mboyo Moseka (born 10 January 1959), known professionally as M'bilia Bel, is a Congolese singer and songwriter. [1] [2] Dubbed the "Queen of African Rumba" [3] [4] and "Queen Cleopatra", [5] [6] she is regarded as one of the most influential figures in 20th-century Congolese and African popular music.
Seventy years since his first Capitol Records sessions for the single “Lean Baby” and the “Songs for Young Lovers” 10″ album… 62 years since his first Reprise LP, “Ring-a-Ding-Ding ...
His death came a day before the burial of another Congolese musician of his era, Lutumba SImaro, with whom they had played together in the TPOK Jazz band. [9] Plans are underway, as of 11 May 2019, to repatriate his remains to the United Kingdom for final interment.