N'Goma took his first music lessons at the age of eight, and began performing for audiences in 1971, after his family left Mayumba for the Gabonese capital, Libreville so that he could attend school.
While taking classes in accounting, he joined the school band, called Capo Sound, with whom he learned to play guitar.
In 1988, N'Goma's love of film led him to a job with Gabon TV, where he worked in France as a cameraman.
In particular, the title track rose in popularity in Africa, France, and the French West Indies, as a party anthem.
Oliver N’Goma died from kidney failure, which he had battled for the last two years of his life, on 7 June 2010 at Omar Bongo Hospital in Libreville, Gabon.