I met him in France two years ago and he was upbeat. He even told me he wanted to rebrand Soukous, complete with a new dance style,” Frank Diaz, one of his former promoters now living in Nairobi ...

A while back, guitarist Chris McCarus, was on a personal mission to learn Congolese-style soukous guitar and meet the stars of soukous. And he ended up at the home of Tabu Ley, in a neighborhood ...