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M’Pongo Love, whose real name Alfride M’Pongo Landu is a Congolese musician. She is well known for her soft soprano voice but even more importantly she succeeded in becoming a successful musician despite being disabled.

Along with Mbilia Bel, Tshala Mwana, and Abeti Masikini, she is considered one of the greatest female Congolese musicians.

MPONGO LOVE’s CHILDHOOD AND EARLY CAREER

She was born August 27, 1956, in Boma, a city on the Congo River near the western African coast Her father was an army officer in charge of a military base.

Her mother was the director of a social center for the education of girls. In 1960, she received a penicillin shot. She had an allergic reaction to the shot and was paralyzed.

Mpongo love biography of michael jackson

Ironically the shot was a vaccination against Polio. The following year her father passed away. After two years of therapy, she regained some use of her legs. However, her legs were deformed by the