Mbilia Bel sounds exactly the same in person as she does on radio. In fact, as impossible as it seems in this age of auto tune, her voice is even more impressive when she is seated right in front of ...

When a fresh-faced gap-toothed 18-year-old singer from Kinshasa called Kanda Bongo (later known as Kanda Bongo Man) arrived in France in 1979, there were few opportunities for musicians from Africa.

Gallo record company's kwassa kwassa star Kanda Bongo Man returns to the airwaves with a brand new release - Swalati - a tribute to all the beautiful women in the world. A jet-setting, internationally ...

Congolese vocalist and musician Kanda Bongo man will headline this year’s edition of the African Legends Night which will take place on Saturday, September 30 at the Banquet Hall of the State House in ...

It took more than an hour for him to reach the stage, and during the interim nobody danced to the recorded music. But once Kanda Bongo Man and his band hit the modest stage at the Charter Oak Cultural ...

Guards at the posh and highly guarded Fairview Hotel along Bishop Road beamed when this writer mentioned the name of Catherine Kasavuli, the 'Queen of Kenyan Television'. Despite her absence on air, ...

Many years before Pepe Kalle went waxing lyrical about going back to Zimbabwe just for his Christina, Kanda Bongo Man had not only done the same for his Kenyan lover but had planned to marry her. The ...

One of the superstars of African music, the legendary Kanda Bongo Man, is flying in from South Africa for an exclusive North East show later this year. He will be at Sage Gateshead on November 22.

There was dancing and singing in the rain as the sound of samba echoed across mid-Norfolk this weekend. The Southburgh Festival of World Music was held for the fifth year from Friday to today. Held in ...

Congolese music legend Kanda Bongo Man will headline the 2017 edition of Vodafone African Legends Night. The 6th edition of the music show will take place at the Banquet Hall State House in Accra. The ...

Kanda Bongo Man is the world’s leading exponent of soukous, the hottest, most frenetic dance music to come out of Africa for decades. Driven by the peppery pulse of a hypnotic percussive attack and ...