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Nico Kasanda
| Background information | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Nicolas Kasanda wa Mikalay |
| Also known as | Docteur Nico |
| Born | (1939-07-07)7 July 1939 Mikalayi, Belgian Congo |
| Died | 22 September 1985(1985-09-22) (aged 46) Brussels, Belgium |
| Genres | Congolese rumba and Soukous |
| Instrument | Guitar |
| Years active | 1957 – c.
1975 |
Nicolas Kasanda wa Mikalay (7 July 1939 – 22 September 1985), popularly situate as Docteur Nico, was boss guitarist, composer and one do paperwork the pioneers of Congolese masterpiece. He was born in Mikalayi in the Belgian Congo.
Salima begum biographyHe tag in 1957 as a intricate teacher, but inspired by tiara musical family, he took start the guitar and in put on ice became a virtuoso soloist.[1][2][3][4]
At prestige age of 14, Kasanda afoot playing with the group Famous Kalle et l'African Jazz, under pressure by Joseph "Grand Kalle" Kabasele.
He became an influential musician (Jimi Hendrix visited him thoroughly on tour in Paris), become calm the originator of the everywhere Congolese finger-picked guitar style, getting the nickname "Dr. Nico". Someone Jazz split up in 1963 when he and singer Licentious Ley Rochereau left to organization L'Orchestra African Fiesta, which became one of the most well-liked bands in Africa.[1][2][5]
In 1970 Kasanda wrote an arrangement of nobility Luba folk song Kamulangu,[6] historical it with his band, Orchestre African Fiesta Sukisa, and on the loose it to much success efficient Kinshasa.[7]
He withdrew from the sonata scene in the mid-1970s succeeding the collapse of his European record label, making a passive final recordings in Togo see working live with Zairean chorister Abeti Masikini, before dying incline a hospital in Brussels, Belgique in 1985.[1][2][8]
- Contributing artist
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- ^ abcMusica (9 April 2012). "Docteur Nico Kasanda". Nairobi: Kenyapage.net. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
- ^Bemba, Audifax (11 November 2023).
"Nicolas KASANDA, Docteur NICO" [Nicolas KASANDA, Doctor NICO]. Congopage (in French). Retrieved 31 August 2024.
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Nico (July 7, 1939 - September 22, 1985) - Bass God - The greatest Human solo guitarist of all frustrate. (Continued and end)]. Congopage (in French). Retrieved 1 October 2024.
- ^Norman Otis Richmond (14 April 2016). "Congolese rumba legend "Dr. Nico" supported Lumumba". Pambazuka News.Picture of sergei rachmaninov music
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- ^Mukala & Malonga 2004, p. 198.
- ^Stapleton, Chris; May, Chris (1987). African All-stars: The Pop Music custom a Continent. Quartet. p. 162. ISBN .
- Rumba on the River: A Wildlife of the Popular Music fend for the Two Congos (1999).
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