This week we remember two African musicians who died recently. They might not be well-known here in the U.S., but both were legendary artists in African music. Masuka performed and recorded into her ...

Legendary Congolese musician Simaro Massiya Lutumba died early Saturday at a hospital in Paris, France. His fellow musicians Nyboma Mwandido and Sam Mangwana confirmed his death in phone interviews ...

When the Congolese musician Franco died of an illness believed to be AIDS, in October of 1989, the dictator Mobutu Sese Seko declared four days of national mourning. Many of the members of Franco’s ...

Paris-Congolese music legend Simaro Masiya Lutumba is dead, his son Salomon Lutumba has confirmed. The legendary TPOK Jazz deputy leader, composer, arranger and rhythm guitarist passed on at his home ...

Thirty years after the death of Luambo Luanzo Makiadi “Franco”, the most famous band leader in the history of Congolese popular dance music, the man who was his deputy in T.P O.K. Jazz and his ...