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TPOK Jazz had many members over the nearly 38 years of its existence. [16] The list of band members reads like a "Congolese Music Hall of Fame Inductees". Many members came and went, with many of those who left coming back, some on more than one occasion. Here are some of the members of the band. [17] [18]
Marie-Claire Mboyo Moseka (born 10 January 1959), known professionally as M'bilia Bel, is a Congolese singer and songwriter. [1] [2] Dubbed the "Queen of African Rumba" [3] [4] and "Queen Cleopatra", [5] [6] she is regarded as one of the most influential figures in 20th-century Congolese and African popular music.
Defao was born as Lulendo Matumona [1] on 31 December 1958, in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo,. [3]Matumona moved to Inkisi in 1976, where he remained until 1981 when guitarist Félix Manuaku Waku came to recruit him to join his group, Grand Zaiko Wawa. [4]
By the late 1980s and early 1990s, Wemba's style was more readily identifiable even as it had become an amalgamation of rumba, soukous and ndombolo, Latin and rock, melded to a European-oriented pop style. [10] But still wanting to expand their musical horizons, and move in new musical directions, [10] Viva la Musica took on a dual-identity ...
A young Franco Luambo playing the six-string guitar on a wooden chair outside a house in Léopoldville in 1956. François Luambo Luanzo Makiadi was born on 6 July 1938 in Sona-Bata [], a town located in then-Bas-Congo Province (now Kongo Central), in what was then the Belgian Congo (later the Republic of the Congo, then Zaire, and currently the Democratic Republic of the Congo).
The Grateful Dead is paying tribute to “brother” Phil Lesh. The bassist, 84, died “peacefully” on the morning of Friday, Oct. 25, according to a statement posted on his verified Instagram ...
March 14, 2020: Lake Charles, Louisiana, U.S. Unknown/Died on his 94th birthday [49] Jason Rainey Sacred Reich: 53: March 16, 2020: Heart attack [50] Kenny Rogers Kenny Rogers and The First Edition: 81: March 20, 2020: Sandy Springs, Georgia, U.S. Natural causes [51] Jerry Slick The Great Society: 80: March 20, 2020: Unknown [52] Julie Felix ...
The song-and-dance man started young, blazed trails as perhaps the first Black regular on a TV variety show and kept at it until his death at 97. Arthur Duncan, who kept virtuoso tap dancing alive ...