{"id":1263985,"date":"2022-12-11T11:04:37","date_gmt":"2022-12-11T11:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/11\/congolese-singer-tshala-muana-dies-aged-64\/"},"modified":"2022-12-11T11:04:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T11:04:37","slug":"congolese-singer-tshala-muana-dies-aged-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/11\/congolese-singer-tshala-muana-dies-aged-64\/","title":{"rendered":"Congolese singer Tshala Muana dies aged 64"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Tshala-Muana.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>The famous Congolese singer and dancer Tshala Muana has died at the age of 64, according to her producer and companion, Claude Mashala.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the early hours of this morning the good Lord has made the decision to call back Tshala Muana,\u201d he posted on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Tshala Muana is considered the \u201cQueen of Mutuashi\u201d, a traditional music and dance from her native Kasai region.<\/p>\n<p>She was famous for several songs such as Karibu Yangu, Malu and Tshianza.<\/p>\n<p>She had toured widely overseas, won several awards on the national, continental and global scene and had recorded over 20 albums.<\/p>\n<p>Her music also appeared in the soundtrack of the popular 1987 Congolese musical film La Vie est Belle and Aya of Yop City.<\/p>\n<p>Muana, whose real name was \u00c9lisabeth Tshala Muana Muidikay, was also often affectionately called \u201cMamu National\u201d, which means the nation\u2019s mother, for her vocal defence of the rights of women and children in the Congolese parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Congolese people online have been mourning her death, including former presidential candidate, Seth Kikuni, who thanked her for her work and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sethkikuni\/status\/1601472207188037638\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cgreat contribution to the Congolese culture\u201d.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In June 2020 she was rumoured to have died, but was instead hospitalised after a stroke.<\/p>\n<p>She was known to be a supporter of DR Congo\u2019s ex-president Joseph Kabila and his party \u2013 the People\u2019s Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (PPRD).<\/p>\n<p>She was arrested in 2020 by President F\u00e9lix Tshisekedi\u2019s government, reportedly for her song \u201cIngratitude\u201d which was believed to be critical of an unnamed leader.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The famous Congolese singer and dancer Tshala Muana has died at the age of 64, according to her producer and companion, Claude Mashala. \u201cIn the early hours of this morning the good Lord has made the decision to call back Tshala Muana,\u201d he posted on Facebook. Tshala Muana is considered the \u201cQueen of Mutuashi\u201d, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1263986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3438,21770,862,29739,741,29740],"class_list":["post-1263985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-aged","tag-congolese","tag-dies","tag-muana","tag-singer","tag-tshala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1263985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1263985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1263985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}