The release of an album that retraces the soundtrack of one of the most protracted liberation struggles on the continent coincides with Africa Month and is a reminder of the huge role that music has ...
Congolese rumba music legend Papa Wemba died after collapsing on stage in the Ivory Coast, early Sunday morning. The 67-year old singer, known in the DRC as the King of Rumba Rock, was performing at ...
AS YOU CLIMB the dimly lit staircase at La Crèche nightclub in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, you may hear a man’s high, lilting voice drifting from the rooftop. There, ...
Three is a magic number for rumba singer-percussionist Pedrito Martinez. Saturday night at the Kennedy Center Jazz Club, he played an electrifying solo on a trio of bata drums, the goblet-shaped ...
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