Biography of tabu ley muzina video

Over the past weekend, the world lost a truly great artist, and one of the pioneers of Congolese popular music: Born Pascal-Emmanuel Sinamoyi Tabu on Nov. When an artist is described as "prolific" it rarely means this prolific: Tabu Ley Rochereau is reputed responsible for as many as 3, songs and albums of music, and 68 children by different women, bien sur.

In homage to the man, we won't even try to pick his "best" six tracks, but rather six tracks that exemplify different eras of Tabu Ley's career. This is just the briefest taste of "The Voice of Lightness.

Biography of tabu ley muzina video

Nico Kasanda , and Manu Dibango. At first, they continued developing their own style of Congolese rumba, into which they incorporated even more Cuban influence, including covering some Cuban songs, and singing in highly locally inflected Spanish as well as French and Lingala. Nico parted ways to lead their own bands under the names African Fiesta National and African Fiesta Sukisa respectively, they pioneered a new sound in Congolese popular music: soukous.

In other projects. Wikimedia Commons Wikidata item. Tabu Ley Rochereau. Rochereau performing at the Paris Olympia in Musical artist. Biography [ edit ]. Early career [ edit ]. Later career and exile [ edit ]. Return from exile and death [ edit ]. Discography [ edit ]. Awards [ edit ]. References [ edit ]. Rumba on the River. Cold Run Books.

Archived from the original on La Libre Belgique. Retrieved Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo. Retrieved 28 July Now, as his U. Los Angeles Times. Rolling Stone. Retrieved 14 February Global Post. Africultures in French. Archived from the original on 3 December Further reading [ edit ]. External links [ edit ].