When the crackling sounds of records by Franco Luambo and Tabu Ley Rochereau first reached East Africa’s coastlines in the ...

African music icon Kanda Bongo Man is set to return to the Isle of Man this summer for a celebration of ‘soukous’ music. After performing at the Peel Centenary Centre in October 2023, the popularity ...

Super Orchestra Mazembe was a popular band playing Soukous music who moved from Zaire to Nairobi in 1974 changing their name from Super Vox.

He is widely recognised as one of the most influential figures in African music, particularly in the genres of soukous and rumba. Koffi was born into a family with a rich cultural heritage; his father ...

The city’s Soukous dance music, influenced by Cuban rhythms, is loved across Africa. The Congo River also plays a big role in the city’s identity. Just across the water sits Brazzaville ...

While they call their music “post-Soukous,” their approach is actually a return to fundamentals for an African style that has, over the decades, scaled up, sped up and become encrusted with ...

sung in Lingala with unique dance steps that later became known as the Soukous and the Ndombolo in its evolution. It all started in the Bandalungwa commune, one of the 24 communes of Kinshasa.

Lokassa and the Soukous Stars. That is what the name of the group would have been. It was a textbook; Franco and TP OK Jazz, Tabu Ley and Afrisa Internationale, Verckys and Veve, Aurlus Mabele and ...

Lokassa, who died after a long illness, only recently turned 80. He was the long-serving band leader of the immensely popular and formerly Paris-based Soukous Stars band. He was known to hordes of his ...

popularly known as Lokassa ya Mbongo, died Tuesday night in the US after a long illness. Lokassa, who recently turned 80, was the band leader of the popular Soukous Stars band, formerly… ...

Lokassa, who recently turned 80, was the band leader of the popular Soukous Stars band, formerly based in Paris. Earlier, he had a stint with Tabu Ley Rochereau's Afrisa International and later the ...

Lokassa, who recently turned 80, was the band leader of the popular Soukous Stars band, formerly based in Paris. Earlier, he had a stint with Tabu Ley Rochereau's Afrisa International and later ...