This week we remember two African musicians who died recently. They might not be well-known here in the U.S., but both were legendary artists in African music. Masuka performed and recorded into her ...

He may look frail, but one of Democratic Republic of Congo's leading musicians, Lutumba Simaro Massiya, popularly known as the poet, is not down and out. The long-serving former vice-president of the ...

Thirty years after the death of Luambo Luanzo Makiadi “Franco”, the most famous band leader in the history of Congolese popular dance music, the man who was his deputy in T.P O.K. Jazz and his ...

Paris-Congolese music legend Simaro Masiya Lutumba is dead, his son Salomon Lutumba has confirmed. The legendary TPOK Jazz deputy leader, composer, arranger and rhythm guitarist passed on at his home ...

Tributes continued to pour in for fallen rhumba maestro Lutumba Massiya Simaro (pictured) who died yesterday. Simaro died in Paris at the age of 81. The cause of his death was not immediately known ...

When the Congolese musician Franco died of an illness believed to be AIDS, in October of 1989, the dictator Mobutu Sese Seko declared four days of national mourning. Many of the members of Franco’s ...

Legendary Congolese musician Lutumba Ndomanueno Simaro will be buried in Kinshasa on May 5, with a befitting State send-off planned. An official announcement by DR Congo government released on ...