Kanda Bongo Man

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

CD

Active from

1955

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

34,201

Total plays

197,082

Kanda Bongo Man (born 1955), from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is a prominent soukous musician. He is most famous for the structural changes he implemented to soukous music. The previous approach was to sing several verses and have one guitar solo at the end of the song. Kanda Bongo Man revolutionized soukous by encouraging guitar solos after every verse and even sometimes at the beginning of the song. His form of soukous gave birth to the <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Kanda+Bongo+

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Investigation of the freely available easy-to-use software ‘EZR’ for medical statistics

   · 2012 · cited 16,970x

2. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,355x

3. Early Transmission Dynamics in Wuhan, China, of Novel Coronavirus–Infected Pneumonia

   · 2020 · cited 11,530x

4. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

   · 2016 · cited 11,429x

5. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

   · 2018 · cited 10,795x

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Wikidata facts

Official website

www.africanmusicagency.co.uk/kbm_200

Image

Malanga and Kanda Bongo Man.jpg

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