Fonseca Et Ses Anges Noirs, 2023 reïssue on Music on Vinyl from 1966 album.
Fonseca, born to a Senegalese mother and Cape Verdean father, founded Les Anges Noirs in Brussels. He earned the title "the King of Afro-Cuban rhythm" with successful hits in the 1960s. However, his sudden disappearance in the late 60s and uncertain fate, including rumors of his death in 1970, remain shrouded in mystery.
Fonseca Et Ses Anges Noirs is available as a limited edition of 500 individually numbered copies on translucent red coloured vinyl and includes an insert.
SIDE A
1. O, EL CHA CHA
2. OTODI-KOPLODO
3. MARTINIQUENO
4. AGUARACHAR
5. OJALA
6. EL MONTE
7. CANCION
SIDE B
1. SANS CHEMISE ET SANS PANTALON
2. SAMEDI SOIR
3. SIBAENO
4. BEBINA
5. VIDAS
6. BABALU
7. GOZALO MULATA

Fonseca is the son of a Senegalese mother and a father from Cape Verde. Hence the Portuguese sounding name: Louis Vera Da Fonseca.

In the 1950s, he founded the group Les Anges Noirs (The Black Angels) in Brussels, named after the Brussels club in the Boomkwekerijstraat, which quickly became very popular in Belgium, Africa, and the West Indies. The famous Manu Dibango was even musical director and pianist there for a period. Manu Dibango would later become one of the emblematic figures of African music. Soon Fonseca was nicknamed “the King of Afro-Cuban rhythm”.

After several great successes from the early sixties to 1968, Fonseca suddenly disappeared from the music scene in the late 60`s. Whether he died in 1970, as can be read on some sites, cannot be said with certainty.