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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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