The king of Democratic Republic of Congo's raunchy "soukous" music is the new deputy governor of the capital. Veteran musician Tabu Ley Rochereau told the BBC he wanted to use his skills as a ...
With it is driving beat and spidery, dual guitar lines, Congolese band Loboko is exactly the kind of band that would have a packed crowd on their feet at the Folk Festival Dance Pavilion. They are ...
A historic return for ''Wenge Musica''. A few months ago, the pictures of the Congolese musical group circulated on social media when some of its leaders gathered in a room to speak with one voice. JB ...
Lokassa and the Soukous Stars. That is what the name of the group would have been. It was a textbook; Franco and TP OK Jazz, Tabu Ley and Afrisa Internationale, Verckys and Veve, Aurlus Mabele and ...
Legendary Congolese guitarist Denis Lokassa Kasiya, popularly known as Lokassa ya Mbongo, died Tuesday night in the US after a long illness. Lokassa, who recently turned 80, was the band leader of the ...
Legendary Congolese guitarist Denis Lokassa Kasiya, popularly known as Lokassa ya Mbongo, died Tuesday night in the US after a long illness. Lokassa, who recently turned 80, was the band leader of the ...
Nene Mbendi Mandosa passed away on January 28 but it took nearly a day before his close friend Lukombo Nzambe, aka Shimita el Diego, confirmed the sad news. Not that Nene was not popular enough in the ...
Congolese music, popularly known as Soukous or Kwassa-kwassa, has shaped modern African culture significantly. The music was invented in the 1940s and gained popularity across Africa during the 60s ...
Congolese rumba, sometimes called rumba Lingala or rumba Congolais, is likely to join khon, a Thai masked dance drama, khaen music of Laos, chapei dang veng of Cambodia, Cuban son and Dominican ...
In eighth grade, Elena Soukous and her family visited Greece. It was nothing out of the ordinary, they go fairly often to visit Soukous’s grandparents, who live in Athens. But on the beach one day on ...
"Ngui-Ngon" appears on Tiers Monde Cooperation's debut LP. Fortunately, sharing music that’s decades past its press cycle is one purpose of this column. The Listener is for whatever we like, and ...
Can you chip in? The Internet Archive is introducing peer-to-peer (P2P) fundraising —a giving platform that allows individual supporters to host personalized campaigns to fundraise for the Internet ...
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