Mbilia Bel sounds exactly the same in person as she does on radio. In fact, as impossible as it seems in this age of auto tune, her voice is even more impressive when she is seated right in front of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The mesmerising guitars and hip-swinging rhythms of Congolese soukous has captivated Western dance floors more than any other African music – with Kanda Bongo Man at the forefront. As a performer, ...

The 28th edition of the Koroga Festival is billed to be a star-studded show, with veteran Congolese musicians, the king of Kwasa Kwasa Kanda Bongo Man and the Queen of rhumba M'bilia Bel scheduled to ...

The main act for this year’s African Legends Night, Kanda Bongo Man is touching down in Ghana today ahead of the event on Saturday, September 30 at the Banquet Hall of the State House. Unlike other ...

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 ...

Sign up for City Lights, our twice-weekly guide to arts and nightlife in the D.C. area. It lands in your inbox every Sunday and Thursday. Since moving to Paris 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 ...

A man of trademarks. That is Kanda Bongo Man. From his dance strokes to the debonair suits and hats and even the diastema in his dentition, down to his gentlemanly personality, Bongo Man has wowed ...

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 ...