When Kenyan Tiktoker @Veroansalt (real name Veronica Otieno) began posting her singing and dancing videos as she lipsynched to popular classic Congolese Rhumba tunes back in 2021, her homemade videos ...

In Europe, the Paris-based band Kékélé is considered the world-music equivalent of exiled royalty: five of the stars of old-style Congolese soukous revisiting, on acoustic instruments, the classic ...

It’s fair to say that most cover artists wouldn’t touch Mahler’s terrifying second symphony with a barge pole. As well as brass, woodwind, strings, keyboard and a full-voice choir, the original score ...

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When the first notes of the band’s guitars warm up the stage on a Thursday night, the atmosphere inside a popular rhumba club on Nairobi’s Riverside Drive turns electric. It doesn’t take long before ...

Nairobi — When a list of the top five music groups in Kenya are compiled, it is highly unlikely that Les Mangelepa would be left out of the roll of honour. For the older generation of Kenyans, the ...