At the epitome of his musical career with Orchestra Virunga in the 1990s, band leader Samba Mapangala never dreamt of relocating from Kenya to any part of the world in pursuit of greener pastures. It ...

Samba Mapangala learned about the band from his de facto manager, CC Smith, a longtime radio DJ and former editor of the defunct world-music and reggae magazine The Beat. Smith, who’s been working ...

When US-based Congolese musician Samba Mapangala performed in Nairobi in March, after attending the Sauti Za Busara Festival in Zanzibar, his entourage included Komba Bellow, one of the most famous ...

Nairobi — US-based Congolese musician, once based in Kenya with his Orchestre Virunga band. He is mostly remembered here for hits like Malako, Vunja Mifupa and Dunia Tunapita. Mapangala was recently ...

He has been on the music scene for over forty years and made more than a dozen albums. The musician Samba Mapangala was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo but became an established name across ...

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Nairobi — Though little is heard of him on the local Lingala music scene, US-based Congolese musician Samba Omar Mapangala remains a force to reckon with. Mapangala, who moved to the US more than six ...