Nzimbu project ray lema biography
BIOGRAPHIE - RAY LEMA!
Nzimbu project ray lema biography
Ray Lema
Congolese musician (born 1946)
Musical artist
Raymond Lema A'nsi Nzinga (born 30 March 1946), known as Ray Lema, is a Congolese (DRC) musician. A pianist, guitarist, and songwriter, he settled in France in 1982.[1]
Biography
Lema was born in Lufu-Toto, Bas-Congo Province.
As a child he wanted to be a priest and in 1957 at the age of 11 entered a seminary of the White Fathers (a Roman Catholicsociety of apostolic life), where his talent for music was recognized. He began learning the organ and piano, within a European classical canon that included Gregorian chants, Mozart and Chopin;[1] his concert debut was Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.[2] He left the seminary in 1962 and subsequently attended the University of Kinshasa, where he studied chemistry.[1][2] He became interested in popular music from outside Africa and after learning to play guitar he began his involvement with the Kinshasa music scene.[1]