"Ngui-Ngon" appears on Tiers Monde Cooperation's debut LP. Fortunately, sharing music that’s decades past its press cycle is one purpose of this column. The Listener is for whatever we like, and ...

Congolese guitarist Siama Matuzungidi sitting by the Mississippi. His new album, "Rivers: From the Congo to the Mississippi," is based on his own rich tradition of soukous music, but incorporates ...

Fans of soukous music are mourning the death of Paris-based musician Aurlus Mabele, who succumbed on Thursday to a coronavirus infection, coming as he was suffering the effects of a stroke years ago.

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Ricky Mulolo is re-engineering a revolution in Lingala music and is already seeing fruits of his labour, writes Stevens ...

Long before Fally Ipupa, one man dominated the soukous music scene. Tabu Ley Rochereau was his name. He died on Saturday, November 30. Out in the open yard, sometime in the 1990s, a couple of naughty ...

Are you ready for some very cheerful music? Are you ready to let yourself go? To free your mind and body to a rhythmic melody? Yes? Then you're in the right place, because our genre today is Soukous!

NEW LONDON -- Here's the path Siama Matuzungidi took to get from stardom to obscurity. He started in the Democractic Republic of Congo, where he left his home at age 17 in 1971, and made his way to ...

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Ricky Mulolo is re-engineering a revolution in Lingala music and is already seeing fruits of his labour, writes Stevens Muendo As Soukous music began to conquer London and Paris in the late 1980s, a ...