Hommage à Franco Luambo On entre KO on sort OK

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Ray Lema is constantly striving to pass on to new generations all the heritage that has shaped the identity of his country. Not to turn it into museum pieces, like folklore preserved in formaldehyde, but rather to continually nourish creativity. His own creativity is well established over a fifty-year career that has seen him reconcile cultures that many oppose: the learned and the popular, the written and the improvised, the symphonic and so-called world music, rhythms and harmonies, melody and so on… For him, it all boils down to one thing: music. This is what François Luambo Makiadi speaks of at all times, whose genius is measured by the nicknames he was given: "The Great Master," "The Venerable Yorgho," "The Sorcerer of the Guitar"... The one who brought Congolese rumba to dance floors across the continent and far beyond.