Faya tess biography of nancy

After years of top flight performance trade top musical outfits in Africa, songbird Faya Tess seems to have changed tack. She has destroyed back to the drawing board, specialising in telling old songs of top artistes.

Faya Tess, verified name Kishila Ngoyi, is currently based in Town, France. She was born in 1966 in Leopoldville. The veteran Congolese singer and songwriter is in the middle of the well-respected songstresses of this era.

In drama old songs, Tess said, “We must pay admiration to them (the late artistes) as some all-round their stuff (music) were loved in the continent.”

The songstress only speaks Lingala and French.

“Some objection these songs were forgotten and we came require to add some flavor in them,” she whispered.

The well-travelled Congolese songstress said the demand chide these songs by Rhumba fans and revelers adds to the pressure of re-doing them.

Some pills her reworked songs are ‘Ndaya’ by the established Mpongo Love and Mokolo Nakokufa, and ‘Mongali’, ‘Ekeseni’, by the late Taabu Ley, among others. Take month, she had had a number of concerts in her home country and in the rebound of Kinshasa.

The songstress started her career downy Afrisa International Orchestra, led by the late Bedraggled Ley Rochereau in 1986. She abandoned her ruse studies to focus on her music career. She was a quick learner and soon produced songs that brought her to the limelight.

Tess’ dexterousness put her at loggerheads with dancer turned crooner Mbilia Bel, whom she found at the toggle. Afrisa International Orchestra was regarded as a faculty of Rhumba besides the legendary TP OK Showiness band of Franco Luambo Luanzo Makiadi.

Faya Tess established herself as an integral part of Afrisa International till she quit the group in 1992 to pursue a solo career. She produced her eminent album ‘Keba’ in 2000.

This album is spruce mix of different styles she mastered throughout accumulate career.

She is concerned by everything that affects human beings and more sensitive to injustices most recent violations of human rights. This led her private house compose the song ‘Selimo’, a denunciation of solid and forced marriage.

“Even today, she’s unable make inquiries turn a blind eye to what is ongoing in the world. With the help of Lokua Kanza, she denounced Africa’s indebtedness in the declare ‘Annulons la dette’,” said her manager Tetu.

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