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Pages in category "Lingala-language musical groups from the Democratic Republic of the Congo" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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.
Indépendance Cha Cha was adopted as the "song of the emancipation of the dark continent" and became extremely popular across Africa, although it achieved longest-lasting success in the modern-day Democratic Republic of the Congo. [5] When Rwanda became independent on 1 July 1962, a youth group marched through Kigali singing the song. [13]
Lumumba is a 2000 biographical film directed by Raoul Peck.A co-production of France, Germany, Belgium, and Haiti filmed in French, the film depicts the rise and fall of Patrice Lumumba, and is set in the months before and after Congo-Léopoldville achieved independence from Belgium in June 1960.
La Vie est belle / Life is Rosy is a 1987 musical comedy directed by Mwezé Ngangura and Benoît Lamy.The film revolves around the vibrant music scene of Kinshasa and tells the rags-to-riches story of a poor rural musician played by legendary Congolese musician, Papa Wemba, the “King of Rumba Rock”, who seeks fame in the big city.
U.S.-based production company Congo Rising is preparing “Patrice Lumumba,” a film on the life of the Congolese leader who was assassinated in 1961. Lumumba, the leader of the Congolese ...
The African-record producer Ibrahim Sylla formed Kekele in 2000 to record its first album, Rumba Congo. [1] According to one report, the band was originally intended as a "one-off" effort, only meant to exist for that one album. [2] The word kekele in the Lingala language means a type of fibrous vine, sometimes woven together to make rope. One ...
However, the song faced a government ban on airplay in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, citing the Ya Mado dance as "indecent". [ 122 ] [ 123 ] [ 124 ] Koffi Olamide's ndombolo-inspired song "Selfie" (alternately known as "Ekoti té"), from his 2015 studio album 13ème Apôtre , rapidly became a viral sensation, amassing over a million ...