When stars fall out of the sky

This file photo taken on February 15, 2006 shows Congolese singer Papa Wemba performing during a concert at the New Morning in Paris.Congolese music star Papa Wemba died after collapsing on stage during a festival in the Ivory Coast. AFP PHOTO / PIERRE VERDY

Papa Wemba, the great Congolese musical legend, recently collapsed and passed away on stage while performing at the FEMUA 2016 festival in Abidjan, the Ivory Coast. He was sixty six years old but still swanky as the sapeur that he was.

When he died, he was dressed in a raspberry round hat, a white shirt crocheted with black musical notes and tinted glasses — and he died literally doing what he loved.