While most people are mourning the tragic death of Prince, I just found out that another great musician died earlier today. Congolese superstar PapaWemba was performing onstage in Abidjan, Ivory Coast ...

NEW LONDON -- Here's the path Siama Matuzungidi took to get from stardom to obscurity. He started in the Democractic Republic of Congo, where he left his home at age 17 in 1971, and made his way to ...

Congolese guitarist Siama Matuzungidi sitting by the Mississippi. His new album, "Rivers: From the Congo to the Mississippi," is based on his own rich tradition of soukous music, but incorporates ...

Ricky Mulolo is re-engineering a revolution in Lingala music and is already seeing fruits of his labour, writes Stevens Muendo As Soukous music began to conquer London and Paris in the late 1980s, a ...

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Kanda Bongo Man has always been a stylish figure, and tonight, with his trademark hat and matching jacket he looked, and sounded, as distinctive as ever. With his easy, rolling vocals and upbeat, ...

The large number of Congolese car guards working around the Cape Town CBD is unfortunately misleading reckons Miguel Katshiete, the dynamic founder of La Diaspora Congolaise Cape Town which he set up ...

"Ngui-Ngon" appears on Tiers Monde Cooperation's debut LP. Fortunately, sharing music that’s decades past its press cycle is one purpose of this column. The Listener is for whatever we like, and ...

Fans of soukous music are mourning the death of Paris-based musician Aurlus Mabele, who succumbed on Thursday to a coronavirus infection, coming as he was suffering the effects of a stroke years ago.