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, ...

Each weekend, dancers stoked on music and alcohol sway to the old hits on the decrepit rooftop terrace of Kinshasa's venerable La Creche bar like little has changed in the Congolese capital since the ...

Africa’s leading Congolese Rumba music is now on the list of the world cultural heritage of humanity after the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) admitted the ...

This summer the Bronx Music Heritage Center (BMHC) will present a series of music performances, a film screening, and moderated conversations exploring the many Congolese influences in Caribbean music ...

Nairobi — Lingala maestro Luambo Luanzo Makiadi. His fans mark Franco's Day tomorrow. Exactly 14 years ago tomorrow, one of Africa's greatest musicians, Congolese maestro Luambo Luanzo Makiadi, Franco ...

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 ...