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The African Dance Troupe

Enjoy Danny doing his thing

These girls from Togo in West Africa doing the Soukous Dancing. wat a bunch of exy dancers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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FOR MORE VIDEOS LIKE THIS JOIN THE YOUTUBE GROUP NAMED "AFRICAN MUSIC AND DANCE VIDEOS!" http://youtube.com/soukous Our videos are often long which means you have to be patient: It takes longer for them to load into your computer and start playing. Press 'pause' to let more video build up before pressing 'play.' On this recording, Jonal sings (he sang with O.K. Jazz shortly before and after the death of Franco). Shiko Mawatu on guitar. Shiko told me the other night that his first professional guitar playing job was touring with...DOCTOR NICO! Wow!! This video: In Kenya this song is known as "Sina Makossa." According to sources at Africambiance.org this tune was originally recorded by a Kenyan/Tanzanian group called Les Wanyika -- it can be purchased on a CD called 'Kenya Dance Mania', which has some other great East African music on it. Lokassa ya Mbongo does a nice job playing Professor Omari's original rhythm riffs from that recording, while lead guitarist Shiko Mawatu follows the lead of Les Wanyika guitarist Ngereza's original but brings a lot more skill to the playing. Listen to Shiko to hear what Ngereza really wanted to do. You can follow discussions like this among the savants at africambiance.org. I'm grateful to "antony" and "adoyo" there for their insights on SINA MAKOSSA.

Lokassa Ya Mbongo from soukous stars. Classic song

Choc a Distance. RIP Jean Baron who died 2005

Old School Awilo

Last portion of Wapi Yo

VINTAGE SOUKOUS! Malage de Lugendo's most famous song, performed in Newark with Soukous Stars, February 4th, 2006. Malage has an amazing vocal range -- it's demonstrated at the tail end of the song when he is singing in a high register, and then reverts to his usual voice to say "thank you" to the crowd...what a voice... (sorry about the jump in the middle -- videotape cassette change caused me to miss about 10-seconds of Shiko's solo guitar...shucks...)

Kanda opens the show, Malage sings, Lokassa solo, Cleopatra dances, Ngouma Lokito on bass, Shiko Mawatu sets the spirit on lead. What a night as soukous enjoys an enormous success, completely PACKING S.O.B.'s in Manhattan's Greenwich Village!

Diblo from Congo.Special Dance(2007)

A demonstration of the two main lead parts in the "Les Wanyika" version of Sina Makosa See the band play it at http://youtube.com/watch?v=qnXslttpPPs

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Young Boys displaying dance skills

In this video I go over the rhythmic basics of Soukous.

Soukous-Generation Wachiwa

Soukous Guitar demonstration of 4 guitar parts and how they go together.

Tribute to Jean Baron

Sipe/Simon Muisc presents..Jb Mpiana with his album T.H (Toujours Humble/Always Humble) one of his best albums. Best Soukous,Rumba+Zouk+Rap+Salsa.

Alternating Rhythm and Lead in Soukous guitar sytle..

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"Altered tuning" Rhythm guitar a la "mi compose" form and style.

Congo Fun

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