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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, Singapore.
Frank Lesokwane is a Motswana musician who is famously known as Franco. He is known for producing most Kwasa Kwasa hit songs. Frank is also known for being the leader of the Franco and Afro Musica band which is a well performing band in Botswana .
Franco, by now having switched to vocals and rhythm guitar, also played bass on the EP before David Kimbro joined Idle Hands as a permanent bassist for a short time. [6] The band was signed to German record label Eisenwald Tonschmiede and began recording their debut album at the end of November 2018. The recordings took place at Sharkbite ...
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 .
Released in 1998–2003, this 220-track series revealed more than one hundred rare Bob Marley & the Wailers recordings to the world, including major songs like "Selassie Is the Chapel", and many of them previously unreleased, such as "Rock to the Rock".
Omona Wapi is an album by Congolese singer-songwriters and bandleaders Franco (Francois Luambo Makiadi) and Tabu Ley Rochereau. [1] Both artists competed for popularity in Africa in the latter half of the 20th century as they contributed to the development of soukous. [2]
The album was recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London. [1] [2] Characterized from the absence of any rhythm section, [2] Battiato was accompanied by Roger Chase, Anthony Pleeth,Gavyn Wright, the Astarte Orchestra of London conducted by Antonio Ballista and Giusto Pio and the Ambrosian Singers of London choir conducted by John McCarthy. [1]
After, Franco's death, the rest of the band members, except Burgueño, released a new album with songs composed mainly by Franco called "Iracundos 1990". In 1992, keyboardist Jesús Febrero left the group and in November of the same year, rhythm guitar player, Juan Bosco Zabalo died from heart problems at the Concepción de Uruguay Hospital.