Papa Noel

About Papa Noel

Papa Noel (whose stage name comes from the fact he was born Antoine Nedule Monswet on Christmas day 1940) was a veteran of the golden age of Congolese music. He died on 11 November 2024. In the 1940s and 50s Congolese rumba, until then performed traditionally on lokole log drum and sanza thumb piano was modernised by a group of pioneers. They transformed it by playing it on electric guitar, Latin congas and brass instruments. There was certain influence from commercial Cuban music - including rumba

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