[1] In 1978, Dindo Yogo joined Papa Wemba's Viva La Musica.
They formed that group under the patronage of music impresario Verckys Kiamuangana.
"[3]: 204 They were popular and the quality of Dindo Yogo's "quavering voice" has been noted, for example on their song "Fleur Bakutu," but the band's structure with many established stars, known as the sept patrons (seven bosses), proved to be a failure, and the effects of its failure were worsened by the fact that Verckys contractually retained ownership of the band's instruments for its first four years.
He died in August 2000, after suffering a collapse in Kinshasa from long illness He was married twice, and had several children.
[4] Graeme Ewens, writing his obituary in The Guardian, evaluated Yogo as "one [of] those singers who moved people of all ages, social classes and ethnic allegiances with his plaintive, quivering voice, known as the voix cassé.