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 summer concert series kicked off on Saturday and will feature African beats, music, dance and food. Camara, born in Senegal, is a new addition to Rhythm of Africa where he will perform his ...

At age 10, Ricardo Lemvo was hooked on the blazing horn arrangements, conga drums and up-tempo sound of Johnny Pacheco and the Orchestra Aragon. It was 1967 in Kinshasa, Congo, and the intoxicating ...

Two of the country's leading musicians appear set to give their music a new flavour this year. Traditional music icon, Captain Dira, and rumba king, Franco, are understood to be re-inventing ...

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), ...

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 ...

ONE of the best Rhumba maestros, Fally Ipupa, was in the country for the Valentine's weekend and without talking about the 'nudity' of his dancers that were carried out in one of the papers, I have ...

Long before Fally Ipupa, one man dominated the soukous music scene. Tabu Ley Rochereau was his name. He died on Saturday, November 30. Out in the open yard, sometime in the 1990s, a couple of naughty ...

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 soon-to-come winter has put a chill on Chicago’s Afropop and world music scene. But the slowdown will not last for long. On Saturday night, soukous lovers can check out Congolese guitarist ...

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 ...