Four rumba music players have teamed up to form an ensemble targeted at providing top Afro pop musos with a back-up live band. All the four have fallen out with the three top local rumba stars, Frank ...

One of the up and coming rumba artistes, Onkagetse Phetlhu, better known by his stage-name Dedcoh, says he is happy with the way the last Botswana Musicians Union (MOMU) awards were run. Dedcoh, who ...

Nairobi — When Congolese musician Papa Wemba performed at the Carnivore in Nairobi at the weekend and introduced his show with hip-hop and rock-fused rumba, most of the fans were not amused. A section ...

Fresh from launching his DVD for the new album, Baesekele, rumba star Franco Lesokwane says he is due to unleash his new sounds as early as next month, describing his new music as a fusion of samba ...

Gabarone — Over fifteen local artistes joined Alfred Mosimanegape, popularly known as Alfredo Mos in his tenth anniversary celebration at Chez Ntemba on Saturday. The event, marked the launch of the ...

Two of the country's leading musicians appear set to give their music a new flavour this year. Traditional music icon, Captain Dira, and rumba king, Franco, are understood to be re-inventing ...

Gaborone — Today marks the release of Franco alias Frank Lesokwane's ninth music album since his smash debut Ke Lela LeLona in 2001. The new album titled Baesekele, or bicycle, appears to have been ...

Washington, DC — This 40-track, multi-artist compilation takes us to the origins of African rumba, a musical genre that was developed during the 1930s-40 and later gained continent-wide acceptance.