Times Online (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Wendo Kolosoy was one of the forefathers of modern African music, helping to invent the influential dance style known as Congolese rumba. The music later developed into soukous and made international stars of Kanda Bongo Man and Papa Wemba.
LSI Online News (Free subscription) | 05/30/2008
UK - Sunbaba provided over 150sq.m of stage and fencing branding for the Africa Day festival in London's Trafalgar square, taking place during May bank holiday.The Africa Day festival is a ...
Greater London Authority news (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
Manu Dibango will headline Africa Day in Trafalgar Square
MayorWatch (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
London is to host a free event in Trafalgar Square later this month to mark Africa Day which wil include performances by Les Amazones de Guin�, Zaire musician Kanda Bongo Man and Mali ngoni player Bassekou Kouyate.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
The Congolese unique music genre must be familiar with many in the names Awilo Longomba, Aurlus Mabele, Koffi Olomide, JB M'Piana, Werrason, Extra Musica, Wenge Musica, Kanda Bongoman and Tshala Mwana among others.
MisterBryans' (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
The mighty Kanda Bongo Man with one of his huge hits 'Sana". And wouldn't it be cool if my pal Bong dropped ballroom, took a class from Rumbi and learned to dance like this!
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
It hasn't taken forever for Vampire Weekend's self-titled debut to come out. It only seems that way. That's because in the blogosphere, where reputations are made quicker than you can say Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - and where the backlash begins long before a CD hits those anachronisms called record stores - the members of Vampire Weekend have been superstars for an eternity.
lost at e minor (Free subscription) | 01/18/2008
You'll be hard pushed to find a group around at the moment that draw on quite the same influences as Vampire Weekend. Not since Paul Simon's Graceland have an American band pulled elements of traditional South African music into what is otherwise straight-up US indie, and made it sound as tight and organic as they [...]
