Franco Luambo Makiadi (1938-1989) was arguably the most influential six-stringer on the way guitar music developed across Africa during the 20th century. From the mid 50s onwards, Franco's slick mix ...

Brain's film depicts how the development of Congolese rumba—basically a mixture of Cuban son and traditional Congolese music, with a big accent on electric guitar—became something like a call ...

But in Congo, the guitar-driven local variant ... where it joins Cuban rumba, the Central African Republic’s polyphonic pygmy music and the drums of Burundi. DRC President Felix Tshisekedi ...

Traditional rumba came from Cuban solares: working-class neighborhoods where the African influence on Cuban music was most evident ... a six-stringed Cuban guitar) sing with jazz inflections.

On this recording, the light finger plucking of the guitar by Román Lajara over the syncopated ... which permeates much of Cuban music. Tears and Rumba is a passionate vocal production stripped down ...

Just a week later Niwel's cousin Papy Makaya (who taught Niwel his first piece on the guitar) was amazed with the sixteen year old's ability to learn and play the music of his ancestors - soukous and ...

the new project is self-written and produced by the artist himself who also played guitar, bass and mastered the music himself. “That big band setting of the traditional rumba bands is dying a ...

"Couldn't be more excited about it," said Fernandez, who plays guitar ... into his music. Tesoro, too, incorporates other rhythms and genres in its version of flamenco rumba.