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Bumba Massa

Bumba Massa has been played on NTS in shows including The Do!! You!!! Breakfast Show w/ Charlie Bones, featured first on 8 April 2015. Songs played include L'Argent Et La Femme, Corps A Corps and Sous-Marin.

Best-known for his work with the super-group Kékélé, the honey-voiced Bumba Massa is one of the great unsung heroes of '80s Congo/Zaïre music. Born in Kinshasa in 1945, in 1963 he founded Orchestre Cubana Jazz with Empopo Loway and Siongo Bavon Marie-Marie, the younger brother of Luambo Makiadi Franco. He then progressed to work alongside Johnny Bokelo in Conga '68 and with Vicky Longomba in Lovy du Zaïre, before…

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MOST PLAYED TRACKS
L'Argent Et La Femme
Bumba Massa
Disco Stock1982
L'Argent Et La Femme
Bumba MassaDisco Stock1982
Discogs
Corps A Corps
Bumba Massa, Les Redoutables
Africa New Sound1985
Corps A Corps
Bumba Massa, Les RedoutablesAfrica New Sound1985
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Sous-Marin
Bumba Massa
Syllart Production0
Sous-Marin
Bumba MassaSyllart Production0
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