In 1953, disillusioned with the lack of modernisation at OTC, he formed l'African Jazz which thought to be the most important Congolese band.

In a neon-lit cafe, elderly Africans in hats were watching a Congolese band playing its heart out on an industrial-sized plasma television screen.

Neither Michelle nor her parents wanted to join me on my next expedition, to a downtown hotel whose nightclub was reputed to have the best Congolese band outside Kinshasa.

The rival Congolese bands, Afrisa International, Orchestre Veve and African Jazz could not keep up with the competition.

Orchestre Virunga was perhaps the most popular and long-running of the Congolese bands.

African guitar styles began with Congolese bands doing Cuban "cover" songs.

He began his career in Zaiko Langa Langa, one of the biggest Congolese soukous bands, in 1969.

To Africans Cuban popular music sounded familiar and Congolese bands started doing Cuban covers, singing the lyrics phonetically.

As one of Zimbabwe's first resident Congolese bands, OK Success recruited top Zimbabwean musicians and produced a string of hits in the 1960s and 1970s.

He requested the support of Karlito Lassa, a member of the successful Congolese band, Choc Stars.