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Félix Wazekwa
(Congo-Kinshasa)
Biography
Félix Wazekwa is
part of a younger generation of Congolese singer-songwriters in the soukous genre.
he started his musical career in the early eighties with Kin-Verso,
a band in the Matete neighbourhood of Kinshasa.
In 1985 he went to Paris to study Economics. Five years later, he started working as a songwriter for various rising Congolese artists, such as Koffi Olomide and Papa Wemba. In 1995, he recorded his first solo album « Tetragramme », where he sings in duett with Papa Wemba and Madilu.
It was his third album « Bonjour Monsieur » that made him known throughout Africa. For the Congolese public, he was, by then, already famous for his subtle lyrics in Lingala. In 1999, he created his own band Cultur'A Pays-Vie and continues to be prolific and albums are released on a regular base. In recent years, polemic issues between Felix and Koffi Olomide are frequently reported, after he had lost several band members to Koffi's Quartier Latin.
Born: 14 September 1962, in Kinshasa, as Nlandu Wazekwa Félix
Style: modern Congolese music, rumba, tcha-tcho, soukous
In 1985 he went to Paris to study Economics. Five years later, he started working as a songwriter for various rising Congolese artists, such as Koffi Olomide and Papa Wemba. In 1995, he recorded his first solo album « Tetragramme », where he sings in duett with Papa Wemba and Madilu.
It was his third album « Bonjour Monsieur » that made him known throughout Africa. For the Congolese public, he was, by then, already famous for his subtle lyrics in Lingala. In 1999, he created his own band Cultur'A Pays-Vie and continues to be prolific and albums are released on a regular base. In recent years, polemic issues between Felix and Koffi Olomide are frequently reported, after he had lost several band members to Koffi's Quartier Latin.
Born: 14 September 1962, in Kinshasa, as Nlandu Wazekwa Félix
Style: modern Congolese music, rumba, tcha-tcho, soukous
Félix Wazekwa
Discography
| Title | Year | Label | Remarks |
| Article 23 | 2019 | Fondation Wazekwa | |
| I Love You | 2014 | Mpova Music | |
| Adamu Na Eva | 2013 | Fondation Wazekwa | |
| Haut les mains | 2011 | FoWa | |
| Mémoire Ya Nzambe | 2010 | Kiki Productions | CD & DVD |
| Live à l'Olympia | 2009 | Dario Kindongo | CD & DVD |
| Mosapi Liboso | 2008 | Top Melodie/Fondation Wazekwa | 3-track maxi-single & DVD |
| La chèvre de Mr. Séguin | 2008 | Fondation Wazekwa | 3-track maxi-single & DVD |
| "Que demande le peuple?" | 2007 | Fondation Wazekwa FW001 | CD & CD/DVD |
| Faux Mutu Moko Boye | 2005 | Kiki Touré K1050 | 2CD, Distribution Atoll 9260 |
| Et après... | 2004 | Kiki Touré K1043 | CD & DVD |
| Yo Nani? | 2002 | JPS Production CDJPS 218 | |
| Signature | 2001 | JPS Production CDJPS 129 | |
| Sponsor | 2000 | JPS Production CDJPS 052 | |
| Bonjour Monsieur | 1998 | JPS Production CDJPS 015 | |
| Pauvres, mais... | 1997 | Rythmo Disc NWF 9702 | |
| Tetragramme, YHWH | 1996 | Sun Records 012330 |
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