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Sun Followerr (Lèa Mondo) is a London-based singer/songwriter and guitar player of Congolese origins. Her influences range from Bob Marley to Franco Luambo and Fatoumata Diawara to Oumour Sangare and are fully embodied in her soulful Afro-fusion sound. Lea is currently working on her debut EP, Mwana Mboka,...
Eastern African music wouldn’t be the same without Les Mangelepa. The ‘Orchestre’, which originated in East-Congo in the mid-1970s and moved to Nairobi afterwards, helped to shape and give a decisive boost to the Golden Age of Kenyan music, becoming a protagonist of the lingala scene. Their captivating and easily...