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    Soukous (from French secousse, "shock, jolt, jerk") is a genre of dance music originating from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) and...
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    Outside Africa, most music from the Democratic Republic of Congo is called Soukous, which most accurately refers instead to a dance popular in the late 1960s...
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  • List of prominent Soukous musicians and musical groups: Antoine Kolosoy, a.k.a. Papa Wendo Aurlus Mabele Awilo Longomba Bozi Boziana Diblo Dibala Dindo...
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  • mainly associated with the soukous genre of music and the kwassa kwassa dance. She is often referred to as "the queen of soukous" or "the queen of rumba"...
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    the Congo. The Democratic Republic of the Congo's homegrown pop music, soukous, is popular across the border, and musicians from both countries have fluidly...
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    soukous style. Soukous contributed to the development of Congolese rumba by infusing social and political themes into its lyrics. Meanwhile, soukous bands...
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  • Kanda Bongo Man (category Soukous musicians)
    Kanda Bongo Man (born Bongo Kanda; 1955) is a Congolese soukous musician born in Inongo, Democratic Republic of the Congo. He became the singer for Orchestra...
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  • Babeti Soukous is a 1989 studio/live album by DR Congolese soukous musician and pioneer Tabu Ley Rochereau (using the longer name of Tabu Ley Seigneur...
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  • Oliver N'Goma (23 March 1959 – 7 June 2010) was a Gabonese afro-zouk and soukous singer and guitarist. He was born in Mayumba in south-west Gabon in 1959...
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  • or simply dansi, is a Tanzanian music genre, derivative of Congolese soukous and Congolese rumba. It is sometimes called Swahili jazz because most dansi...
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