THIS IS HOW FERRE GOLA AND FALLY IPUPA STARTED THEIR SOLO CAREER AFTER HAVING A ROUGH TIME IN KOFFI OLOMIDES QUARTER LATIN BAND. When Ferre left Les Marquis Du Maison Mere, he had set up his band and was busy recruiting and rehearsing with his band when koffi sent his emissaries to stop Ferre from producing his album and join Quartier Latin. In reward for that, it is alleged that Koffi gave Ferre thousands of dollars or about 10,000 Euro, a Mercedes Benz car and given a house and Koffi placed his confidante Zobozi to look after Ferre’s personal band for the entire time that Ferre should have have been in contract to perform with Quartier Latin. Ferre joined Quartier Latin and discovered that actually Koffi Olomide had authorised Fally Ipupa,traditionally Ferre’s rival to produce his own album with aid of other Quartier Latin band members so Ferre sought permission from Koffi to continue his work on his own personal album but koffi refused. Fally finally released his album and it was a great success and it became clear he wasn’t returning to Congo as he had travelled to complete the album in Europe and released it from there through David Monsoh’s record label OBOUO Music. David Monsoh was previously Koffi’s producer and he may have convinced Fally to go solo so that was the end of the relationship between Koffi and Fally and Koffi and David Monsoh. I believe Quartier Latin was touring Europe at some point and it was there that Ferre decided to stay over and also finally record his album which he had previously started preparing in Kinshasa. He approached Maika Munan who arranged Fally’s album to him him finalise his album quickly but Maika refused saying Ferre wanted the album to be completed too early so Ferre had to seek the services of guitarist Picas Mbayo and Olivier Tshimanga who helped him with the arrangements and in no time Ferre recorded the album with help of session artists in Europe and he dropped his album too and failed to return to Congo, it was at that point that it was reported that Koffi sued Ferre Gola for breach of contract. Koffi later withdrew the lawsuit and from then he has been praising Ferre Gola as one of his best ever singer along with his new signing Fabregas who was initially with Wenge Maison Mere. As regards the other musicians who also left Quartier Latin, it seems they had all decided at that point to leave, if you listen carefully on Fally’s album Droit Chemin, you hear Fally say ”Montana Kamenga Conclusho Revenso” immediately after Montana Kamenga sung his lines on Fally’s song ”Associe” and that came to be the title of Montana Kamenga’s album when he finally left Quartier Latin so he may have been recording by the side too. After the departure of Fally and Ferre, it seems Koffi lost trust in all his older musicians and now started concentrating on his youth band he called ”Les Mineurs Du Quartier Latin” so the remaining older musicians like Titina,Montana, Jypson Butukondolo also left and dropped their solo albums and that was the end of Quartier Latin. The remaining older musicians at the time like Shella Mputu also left quietly. Jitrois Mingongo who was ”stolen” from Werrason initially remained and mixed with the younger musicians but he was suspended and he also quit and went solo. youtube/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3-55MuUkd_Q
Posted on: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 09:10:34 +0000
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