Ray Lema

• Born: 1946, Lufu-Toto, Zaire
• Active: '70s, '80s, '90s
• Genres: World
• Instrument: Vocals, Keyboards
• Representative Albums: "Gaia", "Green Light", "Stop Time

Biography

Lema first became involved in music playing church organ for five years. By the time he entered college, he was already playing keyboard in Kinshasa clubs for artists like Kalle, Abeti, M'pongo Love, and Tabu Ley. He worked with the Ballet du Zaire and from 1974 to 1978 toured the country studying folklore. He won a Rockefeller grant for study in the U.S. in 1979. Lema's grounding in folklore and choreography, as well as music, helped him break through in the '80s and maintain a reputation as a soukous musician not content to be pigeonholed in that style. He recently signed with the international label Mango. ~ Steve Huey, All Music Guide

Dream of the Gazelle Buy this CD	Medecine Buy this CD	Tout Partout Buy this CD	Safi [Tinder] Buy this CD	Paradox Buy this CD
Green Light Buy this CD	Kinshasa-Washington D.C.-Paris Buy this CD	Stop Time Buy this CD	Euro African Suite Buy this CD	Bulgarian Voices Buy this CD

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