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Congolese singer

Aimee Françoise M'Pongo Langu (27 August 1956 – 15 January 1990), known professionally as M'Pongo Love, was a Congolese singer and songwriter. First taking up singing in a church choir, she quit her job when she was 19 years old to pursue a career as a vocalist.

Beginning with support from other established musicians, M'Pongo eventually began writing her own compositions, often utilising feminist themes.

Biography

Early life

Aimee Françoise M'Pongo Langu was born on 27 August 1956 in Boma, Belgian Congo, the second daughter in a family of seven children.

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Her father, Gilbert Pongo, was a soldier,^[2] while her mother was the director of a girls' education center. At the age of four M'Pongo contracted polio and was paralysed by a shot of penicillin. She crawled until she was trained to use a prosthesis in 1962, allowing her to walk.^[2] As a child, M'Pongo attended a church where her father was a cantor and began singing