The Congolese songwriter, singer and bandleader Tabu Ley Rochereau, who has died aged 76, was one of Africa's most popular entertainers – his work had an appeal that crossed ethnic, linguistic and ...

If Franco was the greatest instrumentalist in the golden era of Congolese music, the 1960s and 70s, then the man who variously called himself Pascal Tabu, Rochereau and Tabu Ley was surely the finest ...

Long before Fally Ipupa, one man dominated the soukous music scene. Tabu Ley Rochereau was his name. He died on Saturday, November 30. Out in the open yard, sometime in the 1990s, a couple of naughty ...

For millions of his fans, he was “the messenger,” “the baobab of Congolese rumba,” or “Prince Rochereau”. A day after legendary Congolese singer-songwriter Tabu Ley Rochereau died aged 76 in a Belgian ...

Tabu Ley Rochereau, who has died aged 73, was a Congolese singer, band leader and sometime politician, and became a respected figure throughout Africa as one of the creators of the great pan-African ...