The new era with Nyoka Longo, Bimi Ombale, Lengi Lenga, JP-Buse and Dindo Yogo - One of the highpoints of Zaïko’s career

In 1984 it was the start of a new era for the group, a further Zaïko belle époque. Zaiko Langa Langa had already passed through its initial successful periods of the early seventies (Wemba, Nyoka, Bimi, Evoloko, Gina wa Gina); the mid to late seventies incarnation with the addition of Bozi, Mavuela Somo, Mbuta Mashakado, Likinga Redo and Lengi Lenga; and the early eighties where JP Buse became a front-line vocalist alongside Nyoka Longo, Bimi Ombele and Lengi Lenga. The new era with Nyoka Longo, Bimi Ombale, Lengi Lenga, JP-Buse and Dindo Yogo became one of the highpoints of Zaïko’s career and saw them achieving international recognition, particularly with the first visit of a Congolese group to Japan in 1986 (Papa Wemba was to follow them shortly after). Extrait from CNN