An author has shared his personal memories of the Bury and Bolton music scenes. Chris (C J) Smith, an international education ...

Soukous, the infectious driving pop music from Zaire, reached an international audience in the 1980s when a community of self-exiled African musicians turned Paris into the Western capital of ...

This fascinating lattice of notes and rhythms is what got me into soukous in the first place, so I’m frequently annoyed by vocal-forward productions like “Ngui-Ngon.” Here, though ...

But the slowdown will not last for long. On Saturday night, soukous lovers can check out Congolese guitarist Mantuilla Nyomo, who plays in a style that is at once sumptuous and sinuous.

Lokassa and the Soukous Stars. That is what the name of the group would have been. It was a textbook; Franco and TP OK Jazz, Tabu Ley and Afrisa Internationale, Verckys and Veve, Aurlus Mabele and ...

Read about others here. Aurlus Mabele, the Congolese singer who was called “the king of soukous,” the energetic dance hall music that blends traditional African and Caribbean rhythms with pop ...

I met him in France two years ago and he was upbeat. He even told me he wanted to rebrand Soukous, complete with a new dance style,” Frank Diaz, one of his former promoters now living in Nairobi ...

His fans called him the king of soukous - a high-tempo Congolese dance music popular across Africa. His daughter, French singer Liza Monet, tweeted on Thursday that her father had died of coronavirus.