 From
Black Authority to Yéli Fuzzo
Black Authority
In 1998, the band Black Authority has three members:
Di Fresh (was then called Snoop), Djah Franco (was called Fransistar)
and Afroside. It’s Afroside who proposed to Yeli Fu to integrate
the band "Black Authority”. Di Fresh and Djah Franco didn’t
agree at the first but Afroside insisted. When Yeli entered the band
in 1998, every thing changed, nothing had ever been the same again for
the young band.
From
Black Authority to Fanga Fing
The Black Authority are now four: Di Fresh, Djah
Franco, Yeli Fu and Afroside. They took part in several underground
concerts. Then when they became popular enough the quarter Djelibougou
(Bamako), they decided to organize a concert. It’s a catastrophe!
Only ten persons came to the concert and they were just friends; the
band made the concert professionally for the small
public they had. After the concert, the band didn’t lost courage
and goes on repeating. They changed the name of the band… a friend
of Di Fresh called Biblo advised them Fanga
Fing, literal translation of Black Authority in bambara.
Yeli Fu is persuded that the band is as good as the other bands, he
proposed the band to take part in the popular rap emission of Mali:
"Flash Hip Hop". The other didn’t agree at first then
Yeli Fu insisted. When they accepted, Yeli Fu contacted the star of
the emission (Braddox) thanks to his friend Alpeco (of the band Rage)
which was already well known in the rap circle. When Braddox listened
to the Black Authority, he invited them in his emission without hesitating.
Then they became the pet of the public and are very demanded so their
music was broadcasted every Saturday! It was the beginning of the fulfilling
of a dream.
Fanga
Fing
In 1999, the first single of Fanga
Fing is released and became the best
sales of the year in rap music. It’s a good year but Afroside
is obliged to leave the band for personal reasons. He was considered
as the best of them; the Fanga
Fing is then just three…
The young stars took part in several concerts among which the Tabalé
organised by Adam Bah Konaré, the wife of the
president of Mali of that time. Then, Yeli Fu (who has just created
his society of production Invasion
Records) organised a huge concert at the palace of culture,
the biggest hall of Bamako. It’s a total success. Fanga
Fing becomes the only band able to attract so much people
in a rap concert! The band that has so much pain to assemble only ten
persons to their first concert now attracts 5.000 spectators.
In 2000, the band released its first album "Fanga Follo".
The name Fanga Fing
becomes then full of sense. It’s the black force, the dictatorship,
the best way to impose oneself. One this album are invited confirmed
stars of Malian music such as Koko
Dembelé and Djeneba
Seck. "Fanga Follo" is a success of Fanga
Fing and the band is more than ever in rap.
Yéli Fuzzo
In 2002, Yéli Fuzzo decides to make a break
with the band to consecrate himself to his production. The same year,
Di Fresh and Djah Franco left Invasion
Records to create their own structure. The two realise
an album called "An Ba Fo".
Yéli Fuzzo who’s studying to the states goes on working
on his label and records the successful Magic
Black Men, Mali Rap 2001, SNK,
Ta K Mi......
In 2003, he realises an album solo "Je rap donc je suis",
in the studio of Mad M Cool in Bamako. His single Mali Djaka is a full
success, the album in on the top of the hip hop top and at the third
place of the Top 10 of the sales of Mali K7 he becomes as famous as
Salif Keita or
Tiken Jah Fakoly. A serial of concert increase his success. In
one month, the mythic palace of culture of Bamako (4.000 persons) is
crowded four times, no one has ever seen that in Mali. The success is
the same in the regions: Kayes, Mopti....
Yéli Fuzzo marked once more the history of the Malian hip hop.
It’s after this success that he accepted to join definitively
his brothers of the band Fanga
Fing.
He must now enter in studio with Di Fresh and Djah Franco for the recording
of a new album Fanga Fing. |
