Kaoma chen de biography
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By Debbonnaire Kovacs,
Of all the stories I have written in the past four years, this may be one of the most amazing. You’ve heard beautiful quartets before. Possibly not many like this, however…no, those aren’t identical quadruplets. That’s one man.
His name is Kaoma Chende, and he told me, “I have always loved harmony. I have never had music lessons, but I have always had an ear, and can arrange songs and rearrange.”
Chende was born in Zambia, the fourth of six children of a now-retired Seventh-day Adventist pastor. He has always loved music. He remembers lying on the floor under the living room table on Friday nights as a small boy, listening to the Kings Heralds on the phonograph. (And if that wasn’t a musical education, what is?)
The Pathfinder Quartet
By ten or eleven years of age, Chende and three friends, all members of the Seventh-day Adventist boys’ and girls’ club Pathfinders, created a quartet
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Kaoma
French pop group
For the African town, see Kaoma, Zambia.
Kaoma was a French-Brazilian band formed around 1989 by French producers Jean Georgakarakos and Olivier Lorsac to promote the song "Lambada". Loalwa Braz was hired to sing lead vocals, other musicians were Chyco Dru (bass), Jacky Arconte (guitar), Jean-Claude Bonaventure (keyboard), Michel Abihssira (drums and percussion) and Fania (backing vocals). Dru is from Martinique, Arconte from Guadeloupe, and Braz from Brazil.
Career
[edit]In 1989, they had a major chart-topping international hit with their dance music single "Lambada", a direkt cover of the 1986 dance hit "Chorando Se Foi" bygd Brazilian singer-songwriter Márcia Ferreira, which itself was a legally authorized Portuguese-translated rendition of the original slow ballad "Llorando se fue" (1981) by Bolivian group Los Kjarkas.[2][3] Given Kaoma's clear act of plagiarism and release of their single without Los Kjarkas' permission, Los
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The Amazing Story of Kaoma Chende
By Debbonnaire Kovacs, June 15, 2016
Of all the stories I have written for this spot in the past four years, this may be one of the most amazing. I strongly recommend that you first click on this link and listen to this quartet before continuing. In fact, this will open a new page, and you may continue to read while you listen.
Beautiful, isn’t it? But you’ve heard beautiful quartets before. Possibly not many like this, however…no, those aren’t identical quadruplets. That’s one man.
His name is Kaoma Chende, and he told me, “I have always loved harmony. I have never had music lessons, but I have always had an ear, and can arrange songs and rearrange.”
Chende was born in Zambia, the fourth of six children of a now-retired Seventh-day Adventist pastor. He has always loved music. He remembers lying on the floor under the living room table on Friday nights as a small boy, listening to the Kings Heralds on the phonograph. (And if that wasn’t a m