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Togo. Tunisia. v. t. e. Congolese music is one of the most influential music forms of the African continent. Since the 1930s, Congolese musicians have had a huge impact on the African musical scene and elsewhere. Many contemporary genres of music, such as Kenyan Benga and Colombian Champeta, have been heavily influenced by Congolese music.
Congolese saxophonist Sam Talanis. The Republic of the Congo is an African nation with close musical ties to its neighbor, the Democratic Republic of the Congo.The Democratic Republic of the Congo's homegrown pop music, soukous, is popular across the border, and musicians from both countries have fluidly travelled throughout the region playing similarly styled music, including Nino Malapet and ...
Franco Luambo. François Luambo Luanzo Makiadi (6 July 1938 – 12 October 1989) was a Congolese musician. He was a major figure in 20th-century Congolese music, and African music in general, principally as the leader for over 30 years of TPOK Jazz, the most popular and significant African band of its time and arguably of all time.
This is a list of musicians and musical groups from the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire). Abeti Masikini. African Fiesta. Aurlus Mabélé. Avelino. Awilo Longomba. Bimi Ombale. Bisso Na Bisso. Bouro Mpela.
Soukous. Soukous (from French secousse, "shock, jolt, jerk") is a genre of dance music originating from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) and the Republic of the Congo (formerly French Congo). [1] It derived from Congolese rumba in the 1960s, with faster dance rhythms and bright, intricate guitar improvisation, [2] and ...
The Missa Luba is a setting of the Latin Mass sung in styles traditional to the Democratic Republic of Congo.It was composed by Father Guido Haazen, a Franciscan friar from Belgium, and originally celebrated, performed, and recorded in 1958 by Les Troubadours du Roi Baudouin (King Baudouin's Troubadours), a choir of adults and children from the Congolese town of Kamina in Katanga Province.