NEW YORK — A corner apartment in Harlem: air conditioning on high against the blazing heat outside, African art objects and concert posters on the walls, incense wafting through the living room. This ...

Few musicians are as synonymous with their genre as guitarist Diblo Dibala is with soukous, the rippling, heavily melodic Congolese rumba. The late bandleader Franco, one of Dibala’s early bosses, ...

168 168 people viewed this event. Late night concert as part of the Habari Africa Festival featuring the soukous music guitarist. 10:30 pm-2 am. $15. In the Brigantine Room.

Easily globalFEST 2011's hottest guitar player, Congolese musician Diblo Dibala has kept audiences all over the world dancing since his early teens. Growing from his early work in soukous, a type of ...

Lokassa and the Soukous Stars. That is what the name of the group would have been. It was a textbook; Franco and TP OK Jazz, Tabu Ley and Afrisa Internationale, Verckys and Veve, Aurlus Mabele and ...