The Incredible Lightness of Being Tabu Ley Rochereau

By Richard Gehr, eMusic Contributor

Tabu Ley Rochereau is more than just one of the greatest singers and composers in African popular music. He's also the master politician of the Congolese dance-band nation, which has splintered, fractured, revolted, imploded and rebuilt itself more or less continuously over the course of three generations while producing some of the world's most beautiful and sophisticated music along the way. Born Pascal Emmanuel Sinamoyi Tabou in 1940 in Banningville, a port town in the Banandu… more »