TPOK Jazz legend Josky Kiambukuta dead
Legendary TPOK Jazz crooner Josky Kiambukuta is dead. The
Chandra singer died in a Kinshasa hospital on Sunday, March 7, to be yet another dark addition to fallen TPOK greats such as the band’s founder Luambo Luanzo Makiadi better known as Franco. The colossus died in 1989.
Other departed TPOK heavyweights include Madilu System who sang
Pesa Position and is a household name with Kenya’s Rhumba lovers. Also gone is Simaro The Poet Lutumba, he of
Testament ya Bowule fame. He died in March 2019.
Simaro The Poet Lutumba [Photo: Courtesy]
Others are Papa Ndombe Opetum, who died of cardiac arrest on May 24, 2012, and Mose Fan Fan, whose hit
THE STANDARD By
Fredrick Obura |
February 1st 2021 at 03:15:00 GMT +0300
Charles Walioli Wabwoba (R) with some of the confisicated materials (PHOTO: Courtesy)
NAIROBI, KENYA: Tamasha Corporations is locked in a legal fight with two Congolese musicians over copyright infringement traced back to 1996.
Following a court order in December last year, the applicant in the case Hellen Arika got a leeway to raid Tamasha’s premises where with the help of Kenya police infringing copies of musical works in respect to Kiambukuta Londa Joseph (Josky Kiambukuta) and Late Djo Mpoyi Kanyinda were confiscated.
Tamasha Corporation is the first respondent in a case before Milimani Law Courts (Commercial and Tax Division) challenging copyright infringement of Kiambukuta Londa Joseph (Josky Kiambukuta) and the Late Djo Mpoyi Kanyinda.