Biography
Mose Se Sengo, 16 October 1945, Kinshasa, Zaire. Master guitarist Mose ‘Fan Fan’ began to play music when he was sent to boarding school in Kinanga. On his return to Kinshasa he joined Rickem Jazz then Revolution for low-key evening performances as featured guitarist. Franco spotted him playing with Revolution and invited him to join OK Jazz, with whom he stayed for several years. Eventually, and in tandem with several fellow OK Jazz musicians including Youlou Mabiala, he left to form Orchestre Somo Somo. The name translates as ‘double dread’ and was lifted from the 1972 hit song ‘Djamelasi’, which Mose wrote for OK Jazz. However, the band collapsed when Mabiala was injured in a car crash. He eventually returned to Franco while other former members of Somo Somo joined Tabu Ley and Orchestre Verve. Mose elected to leave Zaire, and set up new incarnations of Somo Somo in Zambia, Tanzania and Kenya. During his five years in Tanzania he...
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