Music of the Democratic Republic of the Congo information
Overview of musical traditions in Congo-Kinshasa
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Papa Wemba and Koffi Olomide, major figures in Soukous music, performing in 1988.
Music of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
General topics
Kisanji
Lokole
Genres
Folk music
Rumba
Soukous
Cavacha
Kwassa kwassa
Madiaba
Mutuashi
Ndombolo
Pop music
Media and performance
Music festivals
Zaire 74
Music media
Benda Bilili!
Congotronics series
Kinshasa Symphony
Nationalistic and patriotic songs
National anthem
"Debout Congolais"
Regional music
Related areas
Tanzania
Other regions
Francophone Africa
Algeria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Comoros
Congo-Brazzaville
Djibouti
Ivory Coast
Madagascar
Mali
Mauritius
Morocco
Niger
Rwanda
Senegal
Seychelles
Togo
Tunisia
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Congolese music is one of the most influential music forms of the African continent. Since the 1930s, Congolese musicians have had a huge impact on the African musical scene and elsewhere. Many contemporary genres of music, such as Kenyan Benga and Colombian Champeta, have been heavily influenced by Congolese music. In 2021, Congolese rumba joined other living traditions such as Jamaican reggae music and Cuban rumba on UNESCO's "intangible cultural heritage of humanity" list.[1][2]
Music of the Democratic Republic of the Congo varies in its different forms. Outside Africa, most music from the Democratic Republic of Congo is called Soukous, which most accurately refers instead to a dance popular in the late 1960s. The term rumba or rock-rumba is also used generically to refer to Congolese music, though neither is precise nor accurately descriptive.
People from the Congo have no single term for their own music per se, although muziki na biso ("our music") was used until the late 1970s, and now the most common name is ndule, which simply means music in the Lingala language; most songs from the Democratic Republic of the Congo are sung in Lingala.
^Haugerud, Angelique; Stone, Margaret Priscilla; Little, Peter D., eds. (2000). Commodities and Globalization: Anthropological Perspectives. Lanham, Maryland, United States: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 34–49.
^"Beneath the rhythm, Congolese rumba is a link to the past". The Economist. January 22, 2022. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2023-08-22.
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