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.

who has been studying Soukous and rhumba music for many years, described Mabele as a composer and crooner per excellence. “Like a typical sapeur, the great artiste from Congo-Brazzaville blended ...

composer and vocalist who worked as a member of the soukous band TPOK Jazz, led by Franco Luambo Makiadi- whose music dominated the Congolese music scene from the 1960s through the 1980s.

Kanda Bongo Man (born 1955), from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is a prominent soukous musician. He is most famous for the structural changes he implemented to soukous music. The previous ...