Multi-instrumentalist Georges Mateta Kiamuangana became a teen star in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) with his Kinshasa band OK Jazz in the late 1960s, when Congolese music was ...
The saxophonist and bandleader “Verckys” Kiamuangana Mateta is, as the title of this crate-digging compilation suggests, a one-man encyclopedia of Congolese music. But his influence spreads wider: ...
When James Brown arrived in Kinshasa for Mohamed Ali and George Foreman’s rumble in the jungle fight, the world was ready to tune in. The Godfather of Soul was joining BB King, Miriam Makeba, Bill ...
Verckys is the nickname of bandleader/multi-instrumentalist Georges Kiamuangana Mateta, one of the Congo's most popular musicians of the '70s. He cut his teeth in Franco Luambo's legendary OK Jazz, ...
Such was Africa’s love of Latin music in the 1960s that the Congo, in particular, created a new genre from the rumba template, one packed with sweet vocals, sinuous melodies and frantic, dancing ...
Verckys is the nickname of bandleader/multi-instrumentalist Georges Kiamuangana Mateta, one of the Congo's most popular musicians of the '7 ...
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