Remmy Ongala & Orchestre Super Matamila - Mariam Wangu (live at WOMAD Carlyon Bay 1989) скачать в хорошем качестве

Remmy Ongala & Orchestre Super Matamila - Mariam Wangu (live at WOMAD Carlyon Bay 1989)

Taken from 'Songs for the Poor Man' Purchase/Stream: http://smarturl.it/RW6 Known as the ‘Doctor’, Remmy Ongala is recognised on the streets of Dar Es Salaam by one and all. He is greeted everywhere by children, men, women, by young and old alike. Brief waves and words of greeting are exchanged with shopkeepers, policemen, passing taxi drivers, schoolchildren… in Remmy’s home district of Sinza there is even a bus stop named after him. “Sinza kwa Remmy” you ask to be dropped at the stop near his house. In a country without television or any form of record industry, such fame in Tanzania is remarkable —all the more remarkable for the fact that Dr. Remmy actually comes from Zaire. Born in Eastern Zaire in 1947, Remmy’s musical career began in 1964 when his mother’s death left him as sole supporter of the family. In 1978 he was called to Dar Es Salaam by his uncle to join Orchestre Makassy, and in 1981 Remmy joined Orchestre Super Matimila, an eighteen-piece band ‘owned’ by a local businessman. Doctor Remmy’s subsequent rise to fame owes much to his huge, charismatic personality on stage and to the steady melodic drive of Matimila’s soukous-based music.