For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. A huge bronze statue of a smiling Franco Luambo Makiadi, a guitar strapped to his burly ...
Nairobi — Thousands of Rhumba fans get together today to pay tribute to one of Africa's most illustrious musicians, Franco Luambo Luambo Makiadi (aka Le Grand Maitre-Lokanga La Ndju Pene). It is ...
This Saturday marks the 24th death anniversary of Congolese music legend Luambo Lwanzo Makiadi, popularly known as Franco. His ghost continues to hover over African music, an enduring testimony of his ...
Yves Emongo was very clear. No one, he told this writer, can wear the OK Jazz brand better than Franco did. The son of L’Okanga La Ndju Pene Luambo Makiadi, better known simply as Franco, was trying ...
A huge bronze statue of a smiling Franco Luambo Makiadi, a guitar strapped to his burly self, towers above Kinshasa; a fitting tribute to arguably the most significant cultural icons that Africa has ...
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