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Staff Benda Bilili
Staff Benda Bilili are a group of Congolese street musicians. They live around the grounds of the zoo in Kinshasa, and play music which is rooted in rumba, with elements of old-school rhythm'n'blues and reggae. The core of the band consists of four senior singers/guitarist, who are all disabled (they suffered from poliomyelitis when they were young) and move around in spectacularly customized...
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| Hometown: | Kinshasa |
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| Musical Genre: | Rumba, Reggae , Rhythm and blues |
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