Lapiro de Mbanga

Quick Facts

Full Name	Lapiro de Mbanga
Occupation	Musician
Date Of Birth	Apr 7, 1957(1957-04-07)
Age	67
Date Of Death	March 16, 2014, Buffalo, NY
Birthplace	Mbanga, Cameroon
Country	Cameroon
Birth City	Southwest Region
Horoscope	Aries

Lapiro de Mbanga Biography

Lapiro de Mbanga is one of the most popular and richest Musician who was born on April 7, 1957 in Mbanga, Cameroon, Southwest Region, Cameroon.

For several years, Lapiro’s music career took him to West African countries like Nigeria and Benin where he recorded his first single that made no headway. He returned to Cameroon and then quickly moved to Gabon where he did his first popular song “Pas d’argent, no love” with Haissam Records. He returned in 1985 to Cameroon, where he proceeded to compose and record what Index on Censorship has described as “a long list of biting texts on the socio-economic realities in his beleaguered country.” His first song in this regard was “No Make Erreur”.

On 24 September 2008, Mbanga was sentenced by the Tribunal de Grande Instance (TGI) to three years in the New Bell prison near Douala. In December 2009 he contracted typhoid fever and nearly died of that disorder and respiratory complications. When authorities refused to send him to a hospital, his wife brought medications that helped save his life. In an interview, Mbanga said that he and his fellow prisoners had “penal rations twice a day. At 1pm we are given boiled corn and at 5pm there’s rice in some warm water. It’s the same every day. It’s way below minimum requirements.”

Lapiro de Mbanga Net Worth

Lapiro de Mbanga is one of the richest Musician from Cameroon. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Lapiro de Mbanga 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Lambo Sandjo Pierre Roger (7 April 1957 – 16 March 2014), better known as Lapiro de Mbanga, was a Cameroonian singer who is noted for his 1985 recording of “Pas argent no love” and for being imprisoned in 2008 after criticising Cameroon president Paul Biya in the song “Constitution constipée” (“Constipated Constitution”).

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On 13 July 2011, in Lille, France, Mbanga returned to the stage for the first time since his release from prison. During the summer of 2011 he also played in Lausanne, Brussels, Paris, Barcelona, and at various venues in the United States, Canada, and Britain.

Facts & Trivia

Larry Ranked on the list of most popular Musician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Cameroon. Lapiro de Mbanga celebrates birthday on April 7 of every year.

During his detention, Mbanga repeatedly appealed his conviction to the Supreme Court. On 17 March 2011, he refused to take advantage of an offer from the Supreme Court to be released on bail. Mbanga was released from prison on 8 April 2011, one day before the official end of his sentence.