One of Africa's biggest hitmakers, Tabu Ley Rochereau, a star with a honeyed voice who went on to become one of the continent's most successful music impresarios, died Saturday. He never truly ...

Long before Fally Ipupa, one man dominated the soukous music scene. Tabu Ley Rochereau was his name. He died on Saturday, November 30. Out in the open yard, sometime in the 1990s, a couple of naughty ...

State funeral planned in Kinshasha for Tabu Ley, much-loved Congolese singer-songwriter African superstar and king of Congolese rumba Tabu Ley Rochereau died on Saturday aged 76 in a hospital in ...

The Congolese songwriter, singer and bandleader Tabu Ley Rochereau, who has died aged 76, was one of Africa's most popular entertainers – his work had an appeal that crossed ethnic, linguistic and ...

Legendary Congolese musician Tabu Ley Rochereau passed on last weekend 30 November 2013, aged 76, at Saint-Luc hospital in Brussels, Belgium where he had been undergoing treatment for a stroke he ...

Tabu Ley Rochereau is a household name for everyone and anyone who loved music, especially rhumba. Born Pascal-Emmnuael Sinamoyi Tabu in Bagata, Congo Kinshasa (now DRC), he was not only a prolific ...

He is widely known for his invention of ‘soukous’, but his contribution to Africa’s first technological revolution – analogue music – was more transformational, writes Prof Calestous Juma The passing ...

Tabu Ley Rochereau, a giant in the rarified world of Congolese rumba, has, in the words of Hamlet, shuffled off this mortal coil. He was 73. Born 1940 in Banningville, a small village in the western ...

Thousands of people in the Democratic Republic of Congo have attended the state funeral of rumba star Tabu Ley Rochereau in the capital, Kinshasa. The day has been declared a national holiday and the ...

Tabu Ley Rochereau, who has died aged 73, was a Congolese singer, band leader and sometime politician, and became a respected figure throughout Africa as one of the creators of the great pan-African ...