Members : Loko Massengo, Wuta Mayi, Nyboma Mwan Dido, Syran Mbenza, Bumba Massa
Kekele - aka the roving ambassadors of authentic Congolese rumba - are a group of five singers from the D.R.C. and Congo Brazzaville. The five rumba veterans have revived the flagging fortunes of a sound which, without them, may well have disappeared from the face of the earth altogether.
The group Kekele was the brainchild of Ibrahima Sylla, a Senegalese producer who has been responsible for overseeing the careers of numerous African artists over the last three decades. Around the year 2000, Sylla came up with the idea of reviving Congolese rumba, a sound which had once packed out dancefloors across Africa, but in later years had been superseded by new crazes such as
soukouss and
ndombolo. Sylla who, a few years earlier, had revived the fortunes of African salsa creating the group Africando, started casting about for artists to form a rumba group based in Paris. He started out auditioning over twenty singers and musicians and finally whittled his original list down to five to form Kékélé (the group’s name means "tropical creeper" in Lingala). ...
Kekele Bio
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