San Antonio artist Lee Valentine is going viral with his single “Ballin’ Like Wemby,” a cumbia/reggaeton ode to Spurs star ...

Kinshasa - The body of Congolese "rumba king" Papa Wemba arrived home in Kinshasa on Thursday, greeted by dignitaries, relatives and tens of thousands of distraught fans. The legendary African music ...

Carrie Underwood's collaboration with Papa Roach is as much about amplifying the lyrics of "Leave a Light On" as it is about creating a great vocal partnership. It's an important song. Not long after ...

December 2000, Charles de Gaulle airport, Paris. The world music star Papa Wemba has just arrived from the Congo with his entourage. It's sizeable, which is not unexpected: Congolese music is fond of ...

Congolese rumba music legend Papa Wemba has died after collapsing on stage in Ivory Coast, according to the private morgue where his body was taken. Wemba, born in 1949, was performing at the FEMUA ...

Since his 2014 debut LP Le Dernier Empereur Bantou, Pierre Kwenders has been an invaluable force in Canadian music with his experimental and playful approach to Congolese rumba. Today, Kwenders is ...

Pierre Kwenders—the Congolese-born and Montreal-based musician and songwriter—has announced a new album. José Louis and the Paradox of Love is out April 29 via Arts & Crafts. It follows 2017’s Makanda ...

He twirled, twisted, and even lowered himself in a dramatic posture as he sauntered into this publication’s headquarters in Namuwongo, a Kampala Suburb. In a way, Mr Godfrey Atiku, better known by his ...

A year on from his death on stage in Ivory Coast, we meet the style gurus paying tribute to Papa Wemba. Also on the show, we chat to Band of Horses frontman Ben Bridwell during his European tour and ...

One afternoon, the story goes, he went to visit a friend in Kasa-Vubu, where D.V. Moanda’s band, Belgid, was rehearsing. A Catholic choir singer, Wemba told the band how much he loved singing and ...

One of Africa’s best-loved global musicians, Papa Wemba, died on Sunday 24 April 2016 after collapsing on stage in Abidjan in Côte d’Ivoire. The 66-year-old father of Congolese rumba rock reportedly ...