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The Congolese musicians who dominated radio stations ... Yet they had been teaching her to sing in Lingala and French, and to dance rumba. Arriving in Ivory Coast's main city Abidjan in 1981 ...

The 45-year-old is a master of Congolese rumba, a mesmerising form of traditional dance music based around melodic and repetitive guitar motifs with a large dollop of Cuban swagger. Here ...

Whether it was Congolese rumba in the 1950s ... Soul Makossa, meaning "I will dance" in the Douala language, was a seminal track in the vanguard of the disco era, filling dance floors across ...