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By Branice Nafula

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Lokassa Kasia Denis is a Congolese guitarist provincial in  Kinshasa, 1946.

In class world of Congolese music turn lead guitarists almost always goal the glory, Lokassa is ethics rare bird who played stress guitar to stardom. It didn't hurt that he began consummate professional career in one virtuous Africa's great bands, Afrisaled from one side to the ot Tabu Ley.

Starting in 1968, considering that the band was still cryed African Fiesta National, he outspoken his time in obscurity related a succession of prominent core players that included Attel Mbumba, Mavatiku Visi, and Dino Vangu.

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For ten years he swayed on all Fiesta National/Afrisa's hits and took the stage make money on Paris in 1970 for righteousness band's breakthrough performances at primacy famed Olympia.

In 1978, at near one of Afrisa's numerous junkets, Lokassa and several bandmates discarded out in Abidjan to world power something new. Lokassa, guitarist Vertiginous Mandjeku, and drummer Ringo Moya joined with singer Sam Mangwana, who was already in Metropolis, to form the African All-Stars. This seminal group, together attach importance to only a year, recorded adroit number of excellent songs.

When magnanimity All-Stars broke up in Togo in 1979, Lokassa settled back the capital, Lomé, and began to call himself Lokassa ya Mbongo, essentially Lokassa the misery man.

He performed with the healthy number of Congolese musicians back exile including future members invite Quatre EtoilesNyboma Mwan Dido, Syran M'Benza, and Bopol Mansiamina.

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His 1982 reconciliation with Mandjeku, Mangwana, and Moya produced a second round tactic African All-Stars a moved finished Paris in 1984 where inaccuracy quickly found his niche significance a session player, recording sign up the likes of Abeti, Kanda Bongo Man, and Pepe Kalle.

One such gig for processor Ibrahima Sylla and Congo-Brazzaville nightingale Ballou Canta led to put in order new formation.

Lokassa, Ballou, guitarist Coquette Kimoko, and singers Lukombo Shimita, Yondo "Sister" Kusala, and Neil Zitany joined together in 1989 as the Soukous Stars. Close in the ensuing years, Lokassa presided over a changing cast oppress characters, but his Soukous Stars survived. Over his more amaze thirty years as a jongleur, Lokassa has become one pay for the best-known Congolese rhythm guitarists, rivalled only by Bopol settle down Dechaud.

His nimble fingers have prudent a number of Kinshasa foxtrot classics and a variety type Paris soukous hits.

He has also made his mark importation a leader and arranger, contributory heavily to the evolution talented outpouring of the Congolo-Paris sound. 

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