This Night Will Change Your Life

Christian Kongawi is a professional musician and lover of puns who moved to Canada at age 12 from the Congo, into a foster family in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. He's also the mastermind behind The Potluck, a series of events that have funded Kongawi's work building schools in the Ubangui region of the DRC. He has played in many bands, including The Rebellion, and now is a musical director on Carnival Cruises. We have a pun-filled conversation about being kicked out of school dances, his early drumming career (including a band called Five Alarm Chili), the skylight view into Amigos, "beats for money", the transformation of The Potluck into a fundraiser, dealing with corruption in the DRC, his education at Musician's Institute in Los Angeles, being at sea during Hurricane Matthew, and his uncanny connection to the Dave Matthews Band.   This episode also features unsolicited contributions from my cousin, a guy known as J-Pop, and some off-mic shenanigans from Rylan Schultz of The Pistolwhips. Shit gets weird.