{"id":5019,"date":"2015-08-02T14:59:52","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T18:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kenyapage.net\/commentary\/?p=5019"},"modified":"2020-08-29T14:58:58","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T18:58:58","slug":"biography-of-mpongo-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenyapage.net\/commentary\/musica\/biography-of-mpongo-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography of Mpongo Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>M&#8217;Pongo Love, whose real name Alfride M&#8217;Pongo Landu is a Congolese musician. She is well known for soft soprano voice but even more importantly because she succeeded in becoming a succesful musician despite being disabled. 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