Tabu Ley, one of the stars of 'Congo Funk!', and his band African Fiesta National in 1970 From the south bank’s perspective, the two-way musical trade between each country was complicated in 1971 when ...

This year has seen the untimely deaths of two of the world’s most important cultural ambassadors. The Congolese rumba composer and TPOK Jazz singer Pepe Ndombe Opetum passed on around the same time we ...

Congo Square, the historic common that is now part of Armstrong Park but was once a market and gathering place for enslaved Africans, is the subject of a weekend-long symposium and music festival.

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Congolese rumba music legend Papa Wemba died after collapsing on stage in the Ivory Coast in the early hours of Sunday morning, according to the private morgue where his body was ...

As people sought shelter under old oak trees, the Louisiana rain played percussion on the puddles. Just above that familiar sound, the siren song of Delfeayo Marsalis and the Uptown Jazz Orchestra ...

The electronic and experimental music band KOKOKO! didn’t record its albums in studios, or even really indoors, in its birthplace of Kinshasa, the sprawling capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

Later this month, Jon Batiste will release a new album of solo piano compositions, Beethoven Blues, via Verve/Interscope. The Grammy and Oscar-winning musician’s new single, “5th Symphony in Congo ...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Authorities in Congo say a stampede at a music concert in the capital has killed seven people and injured many others. The stampede occurred at the 80,000-capacity Stade des ...

Grammy Award-winning producer and musician Timbaland is one of the many celebrities and musicians who own non-fungible tokens. Timbaland is also the owner of a Bored Ape Yacht Club, one of the most ...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Seven people were killed and many others were injured during a stampede at a music concert in Congo’s capital Saturday, authorities said. The stampede occurred at the ...