Singer Elisabeth Tshala Muana Muidikayi, under her artist name Tshala Muana, died on Saturday, December 10, 2022 in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) press announced.
Well known to Ivorian music lovers in the 1980s for having lived in the country, the queen of Mutuashi, still called “Mamu Nationale” in the DRC, was 64 years old.
The announcement of his death plunged his country into turmoil. “I am in immense pain to announce the passing of my sister, my star Tshala Muana this morning in Kinshasa! Congo and Kasai space have lost their queen! May God welcome her soul ”, wrote Jean Marie Kasamba, president of the National Union of the Congolese Press (UNPC), provincial directorate of Kinshasa, quoted by the news site www.mediacongo.net.
“In the early hours of this morning. The good Lord made the decision to take over the national mamu Tshala muana. May the good Lord be glorified for all the good times he has given us on this earth… Goodbye Mamu from me,” his partner Claude Mashala posted on his Facebook page.
“I remember very well the exchanges we had at the embassy when she came to ask for a visa to go to the Ivory Coast on the occasion of the celebration of the 50-year musical career of the singer Aïcha Koné. In any case, we will do everything possible to take our place, on behalf of the Ivorian people and their leader, His Excellency Alassane Ouattara, whose main development actions state leader Tshala Muana greeted unreservedly, upon arrival at the ‘Port Bouët airport,” said the Ivorian ambassador to the DRC, Metch Adjé Silas, in a telephone interview with an Ivorian journalist.
Tshala Muana made her debut in Father Buffalo’s group Minzoto Wella Wella and together with Mpongo Love from the Tchéké Tchéké group, before settling in Abidjan in the 1980s.
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