Renowned Congolese rumba Lingala kingpin Antoine Christophe Agbepa Mumba popularly known as Koffi Olomide is in Kenya, for Koroga festival that is taking place today, Sunday. Coming a long way to ...

The slow-paced soukous music and its fast-paced subgenre ndombolo, both of which are sang in Lingala and French and feature curvaceous women in their alluring booty-shaking dance styles did not rub ...

Fally Ipupa is taking the Congo global. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "FORMULE 7") FALLY IPUPA: (Singing in non-English language). RASCOE: That's "Formule 7," the title track from Fally Ipupa's latest album.

Congolese Rumba is the glorious musical hybrid of Cuban music fused with African DNA. It started back in the 1950s with a boatload of 78 rpm Cuban records featuring Arsenio Rodriguez, Orquesta Aragón, ...

You may think you don’t know anything about Congolese music. But if you’ve ever tapped your foot to the irresistible beat of the rumba, you’ve experienced a national tradition. Rumba originated in ...

IN THE Democratic Republic of Congo there are three ways to make it big, says Lexxus Legal, a rapper (pictured). Standing in his house in Kinshasa, the capital, underneath a mural of Congo’s first ...

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FALLY IPUPA: (Singing in non-English language). RASCOE: That's "Formule 7," the title track from Fally Ipupa's latest album. And he joins us now from Paris. Welcome to the program. IPUPA: Yes, thank ...