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Les Bantous de la Capitale, a Congolese rumba group from the Republic of the Congo, is one of the oldest and most influential bands from that country.

Summary

OriginsTo modify

Succeeding orchestras such as Mélo Congo by Emmanuel Damongo-Dadet created at the end of the 1940s, Les Bantous de la capital was one of the first orchestras in the country [ 1 ].

Inapril 1959in Léopoldville (current Kinshasa ), a meeting of Congolese musicians from Brazzaville is held. They are co-founders and former members of the TP OK Jazz and Rock A Mambo [ 2 ] orchestras. The six present are: Jean-Serge Essous (leader of TP OK Jazz in 1956), singer Édouard Nganga known as “Ganga Édo”, Célestin Kouka known as “Célio”, Daniel Loubelo known as “De la Lune” (OK Jazz), Nino Dieudonné Malapet (founder in 1957 of Rock A Mambo) and Saturnin Pandi (Rock A Mambo) [ 2 ]. Very quickly, the idea of ​​creating the Bantou orchestra took hold.

theAugust 15, 1959, a concert organized at the bar-dancing “Chez Faignond” in Poto-Poto marks the birth of the orchestra. Clarinetist Essous directs his eight other classmates

Discography

 * Bakolo Mboka (2007)