Fally Ipupa keeps his twentieth year rolling as the Congolese rumba icon delivers “Miguel Tshis” off “XX: Délirium.”
The song sits at track ten on the project, which plays as a full-on rumba tribute. It lands between “Jul, Kat (Katengoura)” and “JS” in the tracklist, so the sequencing keeps a run of tightly connected songs moving. But the vocal is where this one earns its place.
Fally carries the melody with a relaxed control, letting his phrasing stretch and settle instead of rushing the beat. His delivery stays warm through the verses. Yet he never crowds the arrangement, and that restraint gives the rumba backbone room to breathe. Because the album marks two decades of work, the singing carries weight beyond the notes themselves.
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