| Intro | singer from DR Congo | ||
| Known for | Being a founding member of Bakolo Génération International | ||
| A.K.A. | Papa Inter, Général Mangimbi, El General, Persona Grata | ||
| Is | Singer | ||
| From | Democratic Republic of the Congo | ||
| Type | Music | ||
| Gender | male | ||
| Birth | 1 October 2007, Madrid | ||
| Age: | 12 years | ||
| Residence | Madrid | ||
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Placide Mabengo Baveni Kalumbu, known as Placide Jr, (Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, October 1, 2007) is a Singer, songwriter, dancer, choreographer from DR Congo. He started musical activities in mid-2010s after forming N’dombolo musical band Mens of the Music, known today as Bakolo Génération International. He started recording his debut album “Sebene Connection” in June 2019 and was later joined by the band since its fondation.
Childhood and musical debuts
Placide Mabengo was born on October 1, 2007, in Madrid to Congolese parents. He is the second of three brothers. He gained interest in becoming a musician after his dad played for him a Zaïko Langa Langa album. He liked imitating its leader N’Yoka Longo.
Later, at the age of 6, he started recording voicenotes and also attended for a short time in a church choir. He built a low-budget studio in his residence in 2015, and a year later with three classmates: Diego, Christian and Daniel, he formed Mens of the Music, and released an album on June 19, 2016.
LATE 10s and Recent days
On June 20, 2016, the band premiered its first album on 2016’s end-of-school party. Ten days later, Mabengo founded his own label, named Soulparanos, simply at the beggining, renamed Soulparanos International in 2020. In September 2018, the band released its last song named “Rise and Shine”, a song written by himself, Placide Jr. From the next few days, the band stopped its activities.
“Sebene Connection” and first success
Between September 2018 and June 2019, he was preparing his first solo album called “Placide Jr”, until the release of the single “Kinshasa-Brazza Mboka Moko” with GSM, and that was when he decided to abandon the project with his name, and proceed to register “Sebene Connection”. Accompanied by his brother Juliano Munem, he publishes the promotional singles “Chiffre 6” and “Kitsaka Tsaka”.
He released his debut album “Sebene Connection”, on July 2, 2020.
DISCOGRAPHY
Studio albums
- 2020: Sebene Connection