Three is a magic number for rumba singer-percussionist Pedrito Martinez. Saturday night at the Kennedy Center Jazz Club, he played an electrifying solo on a trio of bata drums, the goblet-shaped ...

Rhumba artist Energy Mutodi will release his second album next week. Titled Kumasese, the album has six tracks that appear to be a cut above the previous ones. The album, which this reporter had the ...

"Why aren't you more well-known?" It's a question independent musician Alexz Johnson hears all too often and is quite aware that the well-meaning inquirer actually means, "Why aren't you more famous?" ...

For more than a century Cuban sugar fueled the global rum industry. The refined cane made its way from the small island nation to bustling trading ports in U.S. cities like Salem, Massachusetts. Now, ...

Internationally acclaimed Congolese rumba artist Koffi Olomide has drawn criticism in Zimbabwe for chanting President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s name in a song released on Wednesday. The artist, born ...

When the first notes of the band’s guitars warm up the stage on a Thursday night, the atmosphere inside a popular rhumba club on Nairobi’s Riverside Drive turns electric. It doesn’t take long before ...

Popular Congolese rhumba artist Koffi Olomide is in the eye of a storm in Zimbabwe for chanting President Emmerson Mnangagwa's name in his latest song. Olomide, born Antoine Christophe Agbepa Mumba ...

For decades, Kenya, in particular Nairobi, witnessed an influx of renowned Congolese artists performing in various popular entertainment joints shortly before they experienced turbulence times ...

• He was scheduled to give a private concert before he died. • Officials said several hours before the show, he was seized with uneasiness in his room, his family and friends said.