Staff Benda Bilili are a group of Congolese street musicians. They live aro… Read Full Bio ↴Staff Benda Bilili are a group of Congolese street musicians. They live around the grounds of the zoo in Kinshasa, and play music which is rooted in rumba, with elements of old-school rhythm'n'blues and reggae. The core of the band consists of four senior singers/guitarist, who all disabled (they suffered from poliomyelitis when they were young) and move around in spectacularly customized tricycles. They are backed by a younger rhythm section consisting of ex-sheges, abandoned street kids who were taken under the protection of the older members of the band. The soloist is an 18 year-old boy who plays astounding electric guitar-like solos on a one-stringed lute he designed and built himself out of a tin can.

The album
Entitled Tres Tres Fort, the band's debut album was released on Crammed Discs in March 2009. It was produced over the course of three years by Crammed's Vincent Kenis (known for introducing and producing bands such as Konono No1, Kasai Allstars, and for the Congotronics series). Kenis recorded the band mostly in the Kinshasa zoo. The album also contains four of Barret & de la Tullaye's videos

Website links: https://myspace.com/staffbendabilili

Sala Keba
Staff Benda Bilili Lyrics

We have lyrics for 'Sala Keba' by these artists:

Papa Wemba Me levanto a las siete de la mañana La misma rutina Retina…
Sammy Massamba Ye ye ho Doudou Osiliki po na likambo ya bozoba Tanga ba mbo…

We have lyrics for these tracks by Staff Benda Bilili:

Moto Moindo Motomoï do la muka Telema veo talaï Putabo coco layo Yo z…
POLIO POLIO von Staff Benda Bilili I was born as a strong…

The lyrics are frequently found in the comments by searching or by filtering for lyric videos

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Comments from YouTube:

Sprecherfuchs

12y

I love this song :)

Jean Philippe Zock zang

Cette chanson est un classique

Paula Gira

10y↑2

Who could translate it for me pleaseeeeeee!!!

André Wouters

8y↑1

+Paula Gira It's my question too. Every time when I listen to this song I got tears. I don't know why. Maybe I don't know the lyrics???

Snafuski

8y↑3

All I know is that sala keba means "watch out"... so one part means "watch out you are going to lose me" as in a love song... Work with a lingala dictionary... it takes time.... or just listen to the music, it says it all... ;-)