As the music fraternity commemorates the 34th anniversary of Rhumba legend Franco Luambo Luanzo Makiadi this week, the majority of fans are disturbed by the death of the 'Mighty' TP OK Jazz Band ...

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I’ll always have plenty of reasons to be grateful for the friendship of Jenny Graf Sheppard, a sound artist best known around these parts for her roles in Metalux and Bride of No No, but today I feel ...

Yves Emongo was very clear. No one, he told this writer, can wear the OK Jazz brand better than Franco did. The son of L’Okanga La Ndju Pene Luambo Makiadi, better known simply as Franco, was trying ...

African music traveled to the New World with slavery, only to return to Africa in the 1930’s and 40’s via 78 rpm phonograph records, broadcast by Radio Congo Belge in Léopoldville (now Kinshasha), ...

It’s just after 8pm on a warm Saturday night and the heavy sound of guitars lightens up the atmosphere inside the serene setting of the Tamambo Restaurant in Karen. The pulsating beat of “Tres Impoli” ...

Nairobi — Thousands of Rhumba fans get together today to pay tribute to one of Africa's most illustrious musicians, Franco Luambo Luambo Makiadi (aka Le Grand Maitre-Lokanga La Ndju Pene). It is ...

During the 1980’s, a lifetime’s worth of wonderful live African music performances took place in Los Angeles. African music filled KCRW's airwaves and local print media, and it seemed like a group ...

Celebrations and commemorations are taking place in the Democratic Republic of Congo and elsewhere on the continent today as people remember the life of Franco Luambo Makiadi. To play this content ...

Gaborone — It has been seven years since Frank Lesokwane surrendered his gun and pair of boots and picked up his guitar to make music for the nation. He is now a famed rumba artiste known as Franco.