In his quarter-century of music-making, soukous master Pepe Kalle has moved from dense, rumba-based arrangements, with guitar filling in for the piano parts, to sinewy, stripped-down party music, all ...

Nairobi — He died eight years ago but Pepe Kalle's (Kabasele Yampanya) baritone lives on among Lingala fans. East Africa will remember him for some of his Kiswahili songs (Karibu and Shikamoo Seye) ...

Nairobi — Although he keeps a low profile, singer and composer Nyboma Mwan'dido, now a member of Kekele Band, remains one of the established Congolese musicians abroad. He is among those at the ...

Beginning. Pepe Kalle, under the Kadima trio of Kabaselle, Dilu Dilumona and Matolu Dode (Papy Tex) founded Empire Bakuba (named after an ancient Kuba Mweka Kingdom in Kasai Province) in 1972. For 26 ...