When the Congolese musician Franco died of an illness believed to be AIDS, in October of 1989, the dictator Mobutu Sese Seko declared four days of national mourning. Many of the members of Franco’s ...

Paris-Congolese music legend Simaro Masiya Lutumba is dead, his son Salomon Lutumba has confirmed. The legendary TPOK Jazz deputy leader, composer, arranger and rhythm guitarist passed on at his home ...

This week we remember two African musicians who died recently. They might not be well-known here in the U.S., but both were legendary artists in African music. Masuka performed and recorded into her ...

Thirty years after the death of Luambo Luanzo Makiadi “Franco”, the most famous band leader in the history of Congolese popular dance music, the man who was his deputy in T.P O.K. Jazz and his ...

Tributes continued to pour in for fallen rhumba maestro Lutumba Massiya Simaro (pictured) who died yesterday. Simaro died in Paris at the age of 81. The cause of his death was not immediately known ...

As messages of condolence continued to pour in following the death of Congolese music legend Lutumba Ndumanueno Simaro Massiya, his family was yet to firm up his funeral arrangements with his burial ...

As messages of condolence continued to pour in following the death of Congolese music legend Lutumba Ndumanueno Simaro Massiya, his family was yet to firm up his funeral arrangements with his burial ...