The veteran media girl says that despite the malicious rumours doing rounds in early 90s associating her with the Congolese Soukous musician, she only met him for the first time in 2012 Two men once ...

Legend. Musicians today live in the shadows of the dazzling artistry of Congolese rumba and soukous. Congolese star Kanda Bongo Man stands so tall among the soukous giants that it is often said if he ...

Kanda Bongo Man is the world’s leading exponent of soukous, the hottest, most frenetic dance music to come out of Africa for decades. Driven by the peppery pulse of a hypnotic percussive attack and ...

+ Kanda Bongo Man was born in Zaire in 1955. + Grew up in the new wave of Urban pop music. + Moved to Paris in 1979. + Formed his own 'Bongo Man' record label in 1984. Kanda was born in Zaire in 1955.

Congolese vocalist and musician Kanda Bongo man will headline this year’s edition of the African Legends Night which will take place on Saturday, September 30 at the Banquet Hall of the State House in ...

Many years before Pepe Kalle went waxing lyrical about going back to Zimbabwe just for his Christina, Kanda Bongo Man had not only done the same for his Kenyan lover but had planned to marry her. The ...

With his easy rolling vocals and upbeat, cheerful and rhythmic tracks, he is one of the key figures of African music and the legend Kanda Bongo Man is coming to Birmingham, UK for an exclusive ...

Kanda Bongo Man has always been a stylish figure, and tonight, with his trademark hat and matching jacket he looked, and sounded, as distinctive as ever. With his easy, rolling vocals and upbeat, ...

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Kanda Bongo Man was the king of "kwassa kwassa" - the infectious dance sound from Democratic Republic of Congo which started in the 1970s. He was a giant of African music in the 1990s and was ...

Guards at the posh and highly guarded Fairview Hotel along Bishop Road beamed when this writer mentioned the name of Catherine Kasavuli, the 'Queen of Kenyan Television'. Despite her absence on air, ...

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