Kenyans on Twitter and lovers of Soukous music were uncontrollable as they mourned the man who shot to fame when he started his legendary Loketo group with Lucien Bokillo, who has since embraced ...

He is most famous for the structural changes he implemented to soukous music. The previous approach was to sing several verses and have one guitar solo at the end of the song. Kanda Bongo Man ...

Super Orchestra Mazembe was a popular band playing Soukous music who moved from Zaire to Nairobi in 1974 changing their name from Super Vox.

Considered one of the pioneers of Soukous, a popular genre of dance music in the Congo basin, Fan Fan had vast experience in music, including playing with the late Franco Luambo Makiadi and the ...