In the mid-1990s, Democratic Republic of Congo musician Tabu Ley released the album Muzina. The album’s title song like many of Tabu’s compositions became a hit in Kenya and it soon would take a funny ...

Tabu Ley Rochereau, a giant in the rarified world of Congolese rumba, has, in the words of Hamlet, shuffled off this mortal coil. He was 73. Born 1940 in Banningville, a small village in the western ...

Tabu Ley Rochereau, who has died aged 73, was a Congolese singer, band leader and sometime politician, and became a respected figure throughout Africa as one of the creators of the great pan-African ...

One of Africa's biggest hitmakers, Tabu Ley Rochereau, a star with a honeyed voice who went on to become one of the continent's most successful music impresarios, died Saturday. He never truly ...

The undisputed King of Soukous, Congolese musician Tabu Ley Rochereau, died of stroke on November 30, 2013 in Belgium at the age of 73. He was a prolific songwriter and one of Africa's leading ...

Congolese superstar musician and songwriter Tabu Ley Rochereau, whose electrifying performances fused African and Latin rhythms into an irresistible blend, was greatly responsible in the 1970s for ...

In the 1970s and '80s, pop music fans in Africa were dancing to a Congo-based music known as Soukous. One of the music's pioneers, Tabu Ley Rochereau, infused elements of American soul into the music ...

NEW YORK — Tabu Ley Rochereau, a Congolese singer and songwriter whose music spread across Africa and the world, died Nov. 30 in Brussels. Mr. Tabu, who was 73 or 76 — sources differ — had never fully ...

Tabu Ley, one of the stars of 'Congo Funk!', and his band African Fiesta National in 1970 From the south bank’s perspective, the two-way musical trade between each country was complicated in 1971 when ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been the beating heart of African rhumba, producing legendary orchestras whose melodies shaped the continent's musical landscape (Photo: Getty Images, Fally ...