(+)243 Podcast Moïse Kabongo

Pop princess Sophia Ayana is the most down to earth songwriter with an out of this world voice. Leaving them awed from the UK to Korea: Sophia was responsible for work on Disciples - ‘Jealousy’, ‘Link Up’ (by Geko x Stefflon Don x Deno x Dappy), Ofenbach’s ‘Wasted Love’ and cuts in K-Pop: ‘Carpool’ (by Red Velvet), ‘Think About You’ (by BoA).

Homebase Amsterdam, where she wrote Kris Kross Amsterdam’s platinum single ‘Loop Niet Weg’ and known in the local DJ scene. On the side, Sophia gathered fans worldwide with her solo singles that were featured in multiple New Music Friday’s worldwide. *currently in a studio working on another gem.

In this episode, we discuss her journey and challenge as an international songwriter in the streaming era, the similarity between the two cultural movements and music genre.AFROBEAT AND K-POP

Raised in Kinshasa and based in North Carolina, rapper, producer, label head and curator of the No Visa party and mix series, Alec Lomami is somewhat of a modern renaissance man. We sit-down with him for a rich cultural conversations of the African diaspora.

Today on the ( +)243 Podcast I invited Jean-Elie Ilunga the International Manager - Middle East & Africa at PRS for Music. In 2016 Jean-Elie joined PRS, over the past five years , Permal has worked closely with PRS on a variety of Record label and projects. In 2018 he collect a BMI awards for clearing a sample for PitBull hit « Don’t Stop the party ».

In this episode we discuss about is day to day role at PRS, licensing and cultural policies for artist in Africa

From Kinshasa to the world.