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Koffi Olomide is one of the richest World Music Singer from DR Congo. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Koffi Olomide's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He earned a Bachelor’s degree in business economics before starting a career in music. He played in the band Viva la Musica in the 1970s.
His album Haut de Gamme: Koweït, Rive Gauche was listed in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
Olomide, was born on 13 July 1956 in Kisangani, DRC. His mother named him Koffi because he was born on a Friday. He grew up in a middle-class family, without any musical background. During his youth, Olomide improvised by singing popular songs with his own lyrics and altered rhythms until a neighbor taught him how to play the guitar.
Koffi – who mostly refers to himself as “Mopao” – has a new release known as La Chicotte a Papa, having recently excelled in hits like Lovemycine, Diabolos, Grand Pretre Mere and Soupou, Cle Boa, among others. Koffi’s talent could be compared to the once king of African rhumba, Franco Luambo Makiadi, who also saw many artists pass through his expert hands during his days. Today, Olomde is one of Africa’s most popular musicians.
In March 2019, he was given a two-year suspended prison sentence by a French court, for the statutory rape of one of his former dancers when she was 15 years old. He was also ordered to pay €5,000 in damages to the dancer. Three other women, all former dancers in Olomide’s band alleged that he had sexually assaulted them several times between 2002 and 2006, and held them against their will in a villa outside Paris. The court dismissed those charges but fined Olomide another €5,000, for assisting the three women to enter France illegally.
