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Call it soukous, rumba, Zairois, Congo music, or kwassa-kwassa, the pop sound emanating from Congo's capital, Kinshasa has shaped modern African culture more profoundly than any other. Africa produces music genres that are direct derivatives of Congolese Soukous. Some of the African bands sing in Lingala, the main language in the DRC.
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 ...
Kinshasa One Two is an album recorded by Damon Albarn alongside ten producers of the newly established DRC Music to benefit Oxfam's work in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Background [ edit ]
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 .
20th-century Democratic Republic of the Congo musicians (1 C, 3 P) 21st-century Democratic Republic of the Congo musicians (1 C) Democratic Republic of the Congo musicians by genre (4 C, 2 P)
The OK Jazz band was formed in 1956 in Léopoldville (now Kinshasa), in what was at the time the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo).At one time in the late 1970s and early 1980s the band grew to more than fifty members.
Zaire 74 was a three-day live music festival that took place on 22 to 24 September 1974 at the Stade du 20 Mai in Kinshasa, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo). [1] ...
Congo Funk! Sound Madness from the Shores of the Mighty Congo River (Kinshasa/Brazzaville 1969–1982) is a compilation album of Congolese rumba, released by record label Analog Africa on 5 April 2024.