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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+
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Place of birth
- Inongo
- Occupation
- singer-songwriter
- Genre
- soukous
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- www.africanmusicagency.co.uk/kbm_200
- Image
- Malanga and Kanda Bongo Man.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1955-06-08
- start of work period
- 1980-00-00
- pseudonym
- Kanda Bongo Man
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