Few musicians are as synonymous with their genre as guitarist Diblo Dibala is with soukous, the rippling, heavily melodic Congolese rumba. The late bandleader Franco, one of Dibala’s early bosses, ...

Zairean guitar legend Diblo Dibala and his group, Matchatcha, jammed into the wee hours Saturday night at the Equator Club in a partying, dance-music performance of soukous, a Central African pop ...

NEW YORK — A corner apartment in Harlem: air conditioning on high against the blazing heat outside, African art objects and concert posters on the walls, incense wafting through the living room. This ...

Notes cascade like quicksilver from the fingers of Diblo Dibala, a/k/a “Machine Gun,” who revved up the Congo’s soukous guitar style into high gear with his former band, Loketo, and later with ...

168 168 people viewed this event. Late night concert as part of the Habari Africa Festival featuring the soukous music guitarist. 10:30 pm-2 am. $15. In the Brigantine Room.

Easily globalFEST 2011's hottest guitar player, Congolese musician Diblo Dibala has kept audiences all over the world dancing since his early teens. Growing from his early work in soukous, a type of ...

**** Loketo, Extra Ball (Shanachie); **** Aurlus Mabele with Loketo, King of Soukous (Sound Wave Records): Loketo means “move your hips” in Zaire – not that you’ll need anyone to tell you to loketo ...

Nene Mbendi Mandosa passed away on January 28 but it took nearly a day before his close friend Lukombo Nzambe, aka Shimita el Diego, confirmed the sad news. Not that Nene was not popular enough in the ...