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This is a list of musicians and musical groups from the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire). This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Le Grand Kallé et l'African Jazz, often simply referred to as African Jazz, was a popular and extremely influential Congolese rumba band from the modern-day Democratic Republic of the Congo. Founded in 1953 in Léopoldville (modern-day Kinshasa) under Belgian colonial rule , the band was led by Joseph Kabasele Tshamala, popularly known by his ...
Music of the Democratic Republic of the Congo varies in its different forms. Outside Africa, most music from the Democratic Republic of Congo is called Soukous, which most accurately refers instead to a dance popular in the late 1960s. The term rumba or rock-rumba is also used generically to refer to Congolese music, though neither is precise ...
Congolese saxophonist Sam Talanis. The Republic of the Congo is an African nation with close musical ties to its neighbor, the Democratic Republic of the Congo.The Democratic Republic of the Congo's homegrown pop music, soukous, is popular across the border, and musicians from both countries have fluidly travelled throughout the region playing similarly styled music, including Nino Malapet and ...
A compilation called The very best of Congolese Rumba - The Kinshasa-Abidjan Sessions was released in 2007 with Papa Wendo and two other soukous/rumba legends; Antoine Moundanda and the Rumbanella Band. In 2008, prior to his death, French filmmaker Jacques Sarasin released a biographical documentary about Wemba's life, entitled On the Rumba River.
Their participation in the Cannes Film Festival took place in May 1999, and in 2000, Zaïko Langa Langa was acclaimed as the best orchestra of the century in modern Congolese music. [ 222 ] Significantly, the dance "Mukongo ya Koba" was bestowed the Best Dance award at the ninth edition of the Muana Mboka Trophy in August 2011.
Denise Kusala Yondo (born 23 April 1958), known professionally as Yondo Sister is a Congolese musician mainly associated with the soukous genre of music and the kwassa kwassa dance. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She is often referred to as "the queen of soukous" or "the queen of rumba ".
Pascal Lokua Kanza (born 21 April 1958), known professionally as Lokua Kanza, is a Congolese singer, songwriter, arranger, producer, philanthropist, and multi-instrumentalist. He is known for his soulful, folksy sound, which is atypical of the dancefloor-friendly African rumba music.