Ambassadeur du soukous dont il était l’un des représentants les plus actifs dans les années 90, animé par une vision décloisonnée de la musique, le chanteur congolais Aurlus Mabele est décédé le 19 ...

The coronavirus has taken the lives of two elderly musicians in Paris: Manu Dibango, a Cameroonian saxophone and vibraphone superstar, and Aurlus Mabele, the king of Congolese soukous music. While ...

"Ngui-Ngon" appears on Tiers Monde Cooperation's debut LP. Fortunately, sharing music that’s decades past its press cycle is one purpose of this column. The Listener is for whatever we like, and ...

Fans of soukous music are mourning the death of Paris-based musician Aurlus Mabele, who succumbed on Thursday to a coronavirus infection, coming as he was suffering the effects of a stroke years ago.

Guitare en main, Dizzy Mandjeku fait résonner les notes des classiques de la rumba congolaise. Légende vivante du soukous, il prépare son retour sur scène. Cela faisait 8 ans qu’il n’avait pas joué à ...

La fièvre et la débauche des clubs africains, où l’electro s’invente chaque jour de nouvelles danses, racontées dans deux compilations fantastiques. Paris aussi est en feu. Dans les boîtes africaines, ...

The large number of Congolese car guards working around the Cape Town CBD is unfortunately misleading reckons Miguel Katshiete, the dynamic founder of La Diaspora Congolaise Cape Town which he set up ...

Long before Fally Ipupa, one man dominated the soukous music scene. Tabu Ley Rochereau was his name. He died on Saturday, November 30. Out in the open yard, sometime in the 1990s, a couple of naughty ...

Ricky Mulolo is re-engineering a revolution in Lingala music and is already seeing fruits of his labour, writes Stevens Muendo As Soukous music began to conquer London and Paris in the late 1980s, a ...

Are you ready for some very cheerful music? Are you ready to let yourself go? To free your mind and body to a rhythmic melody? Yes? Then you're in the right place, because our genre today is Soukous!

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Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Ricky Mulolo is re-engineering a revolution in Lingala music and is already seeing fruits of his labour, writes Stevens ...