Top rhumba group Diamond Musica are billed to stage their first mega gig on December 5 at ZimCafe Hotel following the successful launch of their album "Amai" this month. Diamond Musica will perform ...

Top rhumba group Diamond Musica are expected to perform at Jamaica Inn City, some 30km out of Harare, for a gig that has been dubbed "Rhumba Vs Old Skool" tomorrow. The afternoon gig will see old ...

The survival of Rumba as the popular sound of East and Central Africa is facing a threat from the dominance of other African pop sounds that have transformed to meet the demands of the continent's ...

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 ...

The social, political and economic influences that have contributed in the dominance of Congolese rumba as a global musical genre make for a compelling story. Research studies, books and films have ...

Tributes continued to pour in for fallen rhumba maestro Lutumba Massiya Simaro (pictured) who died yesterday. Simaro died in Paris at the age of 81. The cause of his death was not immediately known ...

Queen of Mutuashi Tshala Muana during a performance. Over a period of three decades, Tshala captivated the world with Mutuashi, gyrating in ways that some conservatives considered too suggestive ...

Saturday night at Chelsea’s Live, the decidedly non-mainstream Pokey LaFarge returns to Baton Rouge for the first time in more than a dozen years. LaFarge aptly titled his genre-mashing latest album ...