Compilation showcases Congolese pop pioneer
Bandleader, songwriter and singer Joseph Kabasele, known by his nickname “Le Grand Kalle”, was one of the pioneers of Congolese popular music. He certainly blazed a trail for Congolese rumba, the most popular style in Central and East Africa during the 1960s and 1970s, which he, and a few others, developed from the marriage between local tribal rhythms and Cuban music (which came originally from…