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01. MBILIA BEL - Eswi Yo Wapi
02. MBILIA BEL - Nadina
03. MBILIA BEL - Boya Ye
04. MBILIA BEL - La Beauté d'une Femme
05. MBILIA BEL - Nazali Mwasi
06. MBILIA BEL - Contra Ma Volonté
07. MBILIA BEL - Nakeyi Nairobi
08. MBILIA BEL - Balle à Terre
01. MBILIA BEL - Wendenda
02. MBILIA BEL - Lisanga Bambanda
03. MBILIA BEL - Yamba Ngai
04. MBILIA BEL - Ba Gerants ya Mabala
05. MBILIA BEL - Kelhia
06. MBILIA BEL - Beyanga
07. MBILIA BEL - Bokosami
08. MBILIA BEL - Faux Pas
09. MBILIA BEL - Mpeve ya Longo Bis
ARTIST
TITLE
Bel Canto: Best of the Genidia Years
FORMAT
2CD BOX

LABEL
CATALOG #
STCD 3037-38CD STCD 3037-38CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
12/4/2012

2010 release. Mbilia Bel was incontestably the most popular female singer in all of Africa in the 1980s. Her voice was a limpid soprano that proclaimed both innocence and knowledge with alluring hints of sass. She was also known for her beauty and her fashion elegance. She was truly a diva. Dancing and singing in a chorus line on a television show when she was 22, she caught the eye of Tabu Ley Rochereau, the great Congolese singer, songwriter and bandleader, who called the studio and hired her on the spot. The song he wrote for her to sing with him was an instant hit, and that was just the beginning. Between 1982 and 1987 she made a dozen albums with Tabu Ley and his top-flight band, Afrisa International, for Ley's Genidia production company, which licensed them to European and American labels. Songs such as "Eswi Yo Wapi," "Beyanga" and "Boya Ye" were hugely popular throughout Africa and beyond, and Mbilia Bel and Tabu Ley (a married couple as well as professional partners) toured the world, including America. Bel Canto: Best of the Genidia Years is a boxed set comprising two CDs and a 44-page booklet full of photos, essays and translations of the song lyrics. It includes all of Mbilia Bel's hits along with equally delightful tracks from her Genidia albums.