Lagos — He represents different things to different people in the same way as everything about him; his lifestyle, dress sense, his music, affected not just his followers but the majority of youths on ...

Awilo Longomba was born in Kinshasa (formally, Léopoldville). His father was from the Mongo region of the Ecuador and his mother was also from the Ecuador region of Ngombe and Congo Brazzaville. His ...

Louis Albert William Longomba is a Congolese singer, drummer, and record producer born on May 5, 1962. He is famous for pioneering the music genre known as techno-soukous, derived from ‘Rumba,' a ...

Congolese musician Awilo Longomba is famous for his Soukous songs and calls his particular style of music 'technosoukous'. One of his most well known hits from 2001 is Coupe Bibamba. Awilo told the ...

SUPERSTAR Congolese music exponent Awilo Longomba whose blazed across Africa and beyond in the late 90s and early 2000s as Makossa and Soukouss music took Nigeria by storm is back to the limelight.

Awilo Longomba is billed as the most sought-after Congolese artist in Africa and Europe. His father was a famous rumba singer and Awilo himself drummed with Papa Wemba in the 1980s, a WOMAD staple and ...