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In his quarter-century of music-making, soukous master Pepe Kalle has moved from dense, rumba-based arrangements, with guitar filling in for the piano parts, to sinewy, stripped-down party music ...
Nairobi — He died eight years ago but Pepe Kalle's (Kabasele Yampanya) baritone lives on among Lingala fans. East Africa will remember him for some of his Kiswahili songs (Karibu and Shikamoo ...