Tabu Ley, one of the stars of 'Congo Funk!', and his band African Fiesta National in 1970 From the south bank’s perspective, the two-way musical trade between each country was complicated in 1971 when ...

Under the High Patronage of Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kinshasa will host the first-ever World Music and Tourism Festival. UN Tourism joins the ...

Before the members of Congolese music collective KOKOKO! take the stage at Washington, D.C.'s Rock & Roll Hotel, they slip into bright yellow jumpsuits. The fashion choice, they explain, has ...

The electronic and experimental music band KOKOKO! didn’t record its albums in studios, or even really indoors, in its birthplace of Kinshasa, the sprawling capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

Under the High Patronage of His Excellency Mr. Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kinshasa will host the first-ever World Music and Tourism Festival ...

In this file photo dated Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2004, Congolese pop star Papa Wemba is hoisted by supporters as he leaves the courthouse in Bobigny near Paris Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2004. Wemba, known around ...

Blur's Damon Albarn has dipped his toes in the reunion waters but has mostly focused on increasingly eclectic and exotic sounds since that beloved band's hiatus. He scored hits with the multimedia, ...

Central Africa's Democratic Republic of Congo is about the last place one would expect to find a symphony orchestra. Its civil war has raged for generations and monthly incomes there wouldn't be ...

Excitement is at an all-time high in Kinshasa as the Democratic Republic of the Congo prepares to officially launch the first World Music and Tourism Festival today, under the theme 'The Rumba Route ...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Thousands of Congolese attended the funeral Wednesday of Papa Wemba, a musician known around the world as the king of Congolese rumba. The 66-year-old musician died April 24 ...

Excitement is at an all-time high in Kinshasa as the Democratic Republic of the Congo prepares to officially launch the first World Music and Tourism Festival today, under the theme 'The Rumba Route ...