MWANA MOLOKAI PAPA WEMBA AND VIVA LA MUSICA 1977-1997 cruels STCD3019-20 Shungo Wembadio Pene Kikumba.

MWANA MOLOKAI

PAPA WEMBA AND VIVA LA MUSICA 1977-1997

cruels STCD3019-20

Shungo Wembadio Pene Kikumba, known in his youth as Jule is better known to the world as Papa Wemba. An artist of prodigious talents and creative animal spirits Wemba has long been recognised as united of the great voices to escape from the Congolese rumba scene--and, arguably, has had the greatest succes of all his compatriots at carving public an international career.

Wemba grew up in fairly unobtrusive circumstances with his mother in Kinshasa. Although he was born in the Kasai region of what was then the