The Franco-Namibian Cultural Centre (FNCC) will honour the legendary Jules Shungu Wembadio Pene Kikumba, famously known as Papa Wemba, with a captivating performance that is sure to inspire fans of ...

Carrie Underwood's collaboration with Papa Roach is as much about amplifying the lyrics of "Leave a Light On" as it is about creating a great vocal partnership. It's an important song. Not long after ...

December 2000, Charles de Gaulle airport, Paris. The world music star Papa Wemba has just arrived from the Congo with his entourage. It's sizeable, which is not unexpected: Congolese music is fond of ...

Rhumba fans are commemorating the death of Rhumba Star Papa Wemba who died seven years ago aged 69. Wemba died on April 24, 2016, when he collapsed on stage in Ivory Coast. He rose to prominence in ...

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Since his 2014 debut LP Le Dernier Empereur Bantou, Pierre Kwenders has been an invaluable force in Canadian music with his experimental and playful approach to Congolese rumba. Today, Kwenders is ...

Pierre Kwenders—the Congolese-born and Montreal-based musician and songwriter—has announced a new album. José Louis and the Paradox of Love is out April 29 via Arts & Crafts. It follows 2017’s Makanda ...

Headlining at the State Theater Center for the Arts in Easton tomorrow night will be Kandia Kouyate, the Peul acrobats and Papa Wemba. These are hardly household names in the United States, but in ...

He twirled, twisted, and even lowered himself in a dramatic posture as he sauntered into this publication’s headquarters in Namuwongo, a Kampala Suburb. In a way, Mr Godfrey Atiku, better known by his ...

A year on from his death on stage in Ivory Coast, we meet the style gurus paying tribute to Papa Wemba. Also on the show, we chat to Band of Horses frontman Ben Bridwell during his European tour and ...

Popular singer Papa Wemba woke the world up to the urban sounds of Kinshasa and spawned the flamboyant dress style known as ‘la sape’. The story of Papa Wemba’s journey to superstardom reads like ...