Artists:Borrina Mapaka
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Borrina Mapaka was born in Brazzaville (Congo) in 1973. As a child, he dreamt of becoming a great musician. Every Saturday his father, who loves music, took him to Parafifi, a "nganda" of Bacongo where musicians like Pamelo Mouka or Youlou Mabialia performed. At 6, he made a one-string guitar which he took everywhere. One day his teacher caught him playing his guitar instead of attending a class. Teachers and pupils were his first audience. He stayed for 4 years in that school. During those 4 years his performanc grew richer with the inclusion of dance and three percussionists who played on tins. They were called upon to perform interschool cultural activities.
As the years went by, he tried to learn more about music. At the age of 10 he went to Pointe-Noire and had to leave his guitar in Brazzaville. Indeed, spending all his time with his instrument did not appeal to his parents. But there he could not enroll in a school and so he spent a whole year singing and dancing at the seaside.
When he returned to Brazzaville his guitar had disappeared. He devoted himself more to dance to show his parents that his stay in Pointe-Noire had changed him. But there was no way he could give up playing the guitar. So, he started to look for places where he could borrow an instrument to practice. He spent as much time as he could listening to choir rehearsals in schools and churches. At the end, in order to practice, he would clean the instruments; he was then allowed to play unplugged electric guitars.
In 1989, he managed to get his first guitar and started playing day and night. He practiced very hard for 2 years but never went to a school to learn.
At that time he started performing in the streets. With a few friends he created a funk band called The Strong Boys with which he sang the songs he wrote.
As he was interested in traditional rythms of his own country, he integrated them in his music and his dance. His first songs date back to that time (1989/1990).
In 1995 he got enough money to buy himself a Yamaha guitar which he still plays. In 1996, as Irene Tassembedo was in Brazzaville, on a tour, she noticed him. Selected by Afrique en Créations, he will attend a training courses with her and Germaine Acogny before entering Compagnie Ebene of Irene Tassembedo in Paris. His third CD, Marianne is to be released this year (the first one, Wivu Sana has been self-produced and the second one, Yula, after few months on the BBC play list, won in February 2000 the first international prize on CKRL MF 89,1, a Canadian radio.
He is also producing a young Senegalese hip hop rapper (Shake).
External links
| Borrina Mapaka on MySpace |
| Borrina Mapaka on Wikipedia |
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| Song | Album | Length | Played | Overall | You | Tags | Single Request |
| Corps De Liane | Yula | 3:19 | 10 |  9 votes |
You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | World beat / Acoustic guitar / Mellow / Pretty / French / Slow / Solo vocalist / Acoustic / Band | Mama Anne | Yula | 1:55 | 12 | 5 votes |
You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | World beat | Ensemble | Daliah | 4:04 | 27 | 24 votes |
You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | World beat / Acoustic guitar / Vocal harmonies / Toe tapper / Keyboard / Band |
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Artist name is|Borrina Mapaka Last played| more than 1 week ago ---------------------------------------- Show name| Songs by Borrina Mapaka Length| 15 minutes Order by| random Limit| 3 songs ----------------------------------------
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- Spotlighted: Saturday, August 7th 2004
- Artist site clicks: 150
- Songs on WWR: 32
- Total plays: 361
- Total requests: 148
- Total listens: 9214
- CDBaby website clicks: 0
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