One of Africa's biggest hitmakers, Tabu Ley Rochereau, a star with a honeyed voice who went on to become one of the continent's most successful music impresarios, died Saturday. He never truly ...
He is widely known for his invention of ‘soukous’, but his contribution to Africa’s first technological revolution – analogue music – was more transformational, writes Prof Calestous Juma The passing ...
In the mid-1990s, Democratic Republic of Congo musician Tabu Ley released the album Muzina. The album’s title song like many of Tabu’s compositions became a hit in Kenya and it soon would take a funny ...
Tabu Ley Rochereau, a giant in the rarified world of Congolese rumba, has, in the words of Hamlet, shuffled off this mortal coil. He was 73. Born 1940 in Banningville, a small village in the western ...
The undisputed King of Soukous, Congolese musician Tabu Ley Rochereau, died of stroke on November 30, 2013 in Belgium at the age of 73. He was a prolific songwriter and one of Africa's leading ...
Veteran Congolese musician Tabu Ley, of whom little had been heard on the local scene since he released the hit, Muzina, in 1995, is not about to retire from music. The 64-year-old crooner, who was in ...
An irony of post-1980s world music is that it has sustained an interest in the earlier, belle epoque musical styles of post-colonial Africa, elements of which it reshaped and recalibrated for a global ...
Prologue: a mighty sound: Mobutu and the musicians, 1997 -- Difficult delivery: Bowane, Leopold II, Stanley, Brazza, Kamba, Feruzi, and Wendo, 1946 and before -- Why don't you make a record? Olympia, ...
A conversation with the filmmaker behind 'Josh: Against the Grain': a new Pakistani film that tells the story of a woman struggling with a modern feudal system. Then, understanding the complexities of ...
NEW YORK — Tabu Ley Rochereau, a Congolese singer and songwriter whose music spread across Africa and the world, died Nov. 30 in Brussels. Mr. Tabu, who was 73 or 76 — sources differ — had never fully ...
Congolese superstar musician and songwriter Tabu Ley Rochereau, whose electrifying performances fused African and Latin rhythms into an irresistible blend, was greatly responsible in the 1970s for ...
The honey-voiced singer, bandleader, songwriter, and impresario Tabu Ley Rochereau ruled dance floors across Africa. He died in Belgium Saturday. One of Africa's biggest hitmakers, Tabu Ley Rochereau, ...
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