🇨🇩 Tchico Tchicaya & Afro festival - El manicero se va (1979) 🇨🇩

The famous cuban song "El manisero", known in English as "The Peanut Vendor" interpreted by Fantastic Tchico Tchicaya.
Tchico Tchicaya can show a career of more than 30 years, starting in 1970 as a singer in a Brazzaville based band named Manta Lokoka. From 1972 to 1974, he was one of the solo singers of Les Bantous de la Capitale, one of the most important bands of Brazzaville at the time.
Between 1977 and 1979, Tchico stayed in Nigeria where he recorded 4 albums. By then he was already successful and had earned his nickname la voix d'or. In that period, he sang together with Mavoungou (or: Mayoungou) Lolo Lolita and together they had one of their biggest hits Jeannot, an all-time classic.
In 1983, Tchico went to Paris well before many other Congolese musicians did the same thing. He recorded for various record companies, and his band frequently changed names, from Afro Festival via Les Evadés de Ponton la Belle to Les Officiers de la musique africaine. Since the early 1990s his star is one the wane, and later in the same decade, he settled in Australia where he created a new band Warako Musica together with Passi Jo.