Zaidi ft remmy ongala biography

Tanzanian musician

Musical artist

Ramazani "Remmy" Mtoro Ongala (10 February 1947 – 13 December 2010)^[1] was a Tanzanian guitarist and singer. Ongala was born in Kindu, in what was the Belgian Congo at the time, and now is the Democratic Republic of the Congo.^[2]

A rising musician since the 1980s, Remmy Ongala was part of the soukous scene (also known as "Congolese rumba").

In 1978 he travelled to Dar es Salaam where he joined Orchestra Makassy. Later with his own band, Orchestre Super Matimila (named after the businessman who owned the band's instruments),^[3] he helped to transmit the soukous style to the Tanzanian musical subculture often called Ubongo, the Swahili word for brain.

This in turn contributed to the development of Tanzanian hip-hop, particularly in the city of Dar es Salaam during the 1990s.

The use of his music as a social instrument led him to address concerns in his hometown that entailed social issues including