Few musicians are as synonymous with their genre as guitarist Diblo Dibala is with soukous, the rippling, heavily melodic Congolese rumba. The late bandleader Franco, one of Dibala’s early bosses, ...

NEW YORK — A corner apartment in Harlem: air conditioning on high against the blazing heat outside, African art objects and concert posters on the walls, incense wafting through the living room. This ...

Easily globalFEST 2011's hottest guitar player, Congolese musician Diblo Dibala has kept audiences all over the world dancing since his early teens. Growing from his early work in soukous, a type of ...

**** Loketo, Extra Ball (Shanachie); **** Aurlus Mabele with Loketo, King of Soukous (Sound Wave Records): Loketo means “move your hips” in Zaire – not that you’ll need anyone to tell you to loketo ...

Nene Mbendi Mandosa passed away on January 28 but it took nearly a day before his close friend Lukombo Nzambe, aka Shimita el Diego, confirmed the sad news. Not that Nene was not popular enough in the ...