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 ...

The other day, while checking out the various (and many) African internet radio stations on Radio Garden, I zoomed over to Congo and discovered Radio Digital Congo/Radio Okapi (digitalcongo.net), ...

This record is an aural testament to the circularity of diaspora. It’s the marriage between the Cuban son (which was pretty African to begin with) and African soukous (which was pretty Cuban from the ...

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"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 ...

Congo'sSamba Mapangala and the Soukous Stars animated a high-spirited Afropop Dance Party at the legendary New York nighclub SOB's on Friday, Novemver 10th. The event was to honor of Afropop Worldwide ...

Versatile and stylish Congolese musician Aurellen Miatsonama Aurlus Mabele was planning a return to the stage when cancer attacked and finally silenced him, bringing an illustrious career spanning ...

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 ...

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 ...

The coronavirus has taken the lives of two elderly musicians in Paris: Manu Dibango, a Cameroonian saxophone and vibraphone superstar, and Aurlus Mabele, the king of Congolese soukous music. While ...

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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 ...