Dancers stoked on music and alcohol sway each weekend to the old hits on the decrepit rooftop terrace of Kinshasa's venerable ...
AS YOU CLIMB the dimly lit staircase at La Crèche nightclub in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, you may hear a man’s high, lilting voice drifting from the rooftop. There, ...
Congolese Rumba is the glorious musical hybrid of Cuban music fused with African DNA. It started back in the 1950s with a boatload of 78 rpm Cuban records featuring Arsenio Rodriguez, Orquesta Aragón, ...
FALLY IPUPA: (Singing in non-English language). RASCOE: That's "Formule 7," the title track from Fally Ipupa's latest album. And he joins us now from Paris. Welcome to the program. IPUPA: Yes, thank ...
New York — In March, 2002, surviving pioneers of Africa's most beloved dance music--Congolese rumba--came together in a Kinshasa recording studio to recapture the glorious, sensuous music of their ...
Congolese artistes are widely regarded as some of the finest rhumba musicians in Africa and the world. Unmatched in composition, instrumental mastery, and their devotion to sweet lyrics and melodies, ...
Papa Wemba, one of Africa’s greatest music stars, died on Sunday after collapsing on stage during a festival in Ivory Coast. The Congolese world music legend, renowned as the “king of Congolese rumba” ...
Some of DR Congo's top rumba artists have recorded a song to foster national unity and help victims of conflict in the central African country, the initiative's organisers said Wednesday. The Barron's ...
Four outstanding albums for the New Year two from Congo, one each from Guinea and Mali each coloured to some degree by crossborder, crosscultural traffic, but each remaining deeply and authentically ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results