{"id":149275,"date":"2025-03-22T07:19:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T07:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/african-music\/africoriginal-pablo-lubadika-porthos-1952\/"},"modified":"2025-03-22T07:19:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T07:19:06","slug":"africoriginal-pablo-lubadika-porthos-1952","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=149275","title":{"rendered":"AfricOriginal: Pablo Lubadika Porthos 1952"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nThe name Pablo Lubadika Porthos <\/b>should be familiar to anyone with a couple
\nof Paris-produced soukous album in their collection. His session guitar has
\nanimated some of the best Zairean dance albums of the mid-eighties (notably
\nsolo albums from Pamelo Mounka, Master Mwana Congo and Assi Kapela) and it is
\nhis unmistakeable playing style which helped to forge that Paris soukous sound.<\/p>\n

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\nThe man was more than a good
\nfree-lance professional. He was also a singer-composer, whose skills were
\nsharpened by playing with Kinshasa bands like Kin Bantous, Lovy du Zaire,
\nGroupe Celi Bitshu and Orchestra Kara in the 70s, before going on to work with
\nSam Mangwana and his African All Stars on their recording of the classic
\n\u2018Georgette Eckins, followed by regular work with the Quatre Etoiles.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


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\nthen concentrated on a career as a session musician, helping a number of fellow
\nmusicians to record their solo albums \u2013 including Pamelo Mounka, Master Mwana
\nCongo and Asi Kapelo. But Pablo was not content to persue a successful session
\ncareer and maintained his distinctive personal guitar style with his first solo
\nalbum entitled Ma Coco.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


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The album did very well in the African discotheques of Paris and drew the attention of Chris Blackwell, owner of Island Records, the label with the lock on Jamaican reggae. Island\u2019s executives, with an eye to expanding their label\u2019s reach, struck a deal with Pablo\u2019s producer Richard Dick, to license some of his African music productions. Their first release was a 12-inch single of Pablo\u2019s Bo Mbanda (rivalry), one of the hottest tracks from his first solo album Ma Coco. Congolese and Za\u00efrean musicians and their fans were ecstatic. After nearly a quarter-century reign as the king of African pop, Congo music would get the worldwide exposure that only major labels could provide. And not just any label, but the label of Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff and Toots and the Maytals. As 1981 wound to a close, Island released Madeleine a second 12-inch single from Ma Coco, and two album compilations of Richard Dicks\u2019s artists, entitled Sound d\u2019Afrique I & II. It was his contributions to these excellent compilations which made him a household name to a new market of international music lovers.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ma Coco was followed by several more outstanding solo albums and in 1985 Pablo released his first British LP on the Globestyle label. It made Pablo in the mid 80\u2019s the leading exponent of contemporary Soukous. Unfortunately, Pablo could not hold this role for a long time and a period of silence followed. In 1993 he came back with his first (and only) CD Okominiokolo for the London based Sterns Music label. With the help of several old fellows such as Wuta Mayi, Lea Lignanzi, Diblo Dibala and Dally Kimoko among others, Pablo managed to revive his old success one more time, but after that his career was over. Since the mid 90’s nothing has been heard from Pablo, until the message of his death reached us in 2010. Looking back, however, he will always be remembered as a great musician and ambassador of Congolese music.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nRonnie Grahams \u2013 Stern\u2019s guide to contemporary African music<\/i>
\n\u2013 1988.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nGary Stewart \u2013 Rumba on the river: a history of the popular music of the two Congo\u2019s<\/i>
\n\u2013 2000.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nLiner notes Okominiokolo<\/i> \u2013 1993. <\/span><\/p>\n

\nDiscography<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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