Kanda Bongo Man (born 1955), from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is a prominent soukous musician. He is most famous for the structural changes he implemented to soukous music. The previous approach was to sing several verses and have one guitar solo at the end of the song. Kanda Bongo Man revolutionized soukous by encouraging guitar solos after every verse and even sometimes at the beginning of the song. Wikipedia
Kanda Bongo Man , born in 1955 in Inongo in the Belgian Congo (now Zaire) of the Bandundu people, left school at the age of 18 to join a local Kinshasa band, playing the hot rhumba sound of the time. africanmusic.org/artists/kanda.html
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