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Koffi Olomide
First coming to prominence as a romantic crooner in the 1980s, Koffi Olomide
founded the influential world music group Quartiers Latin and became one of
Africa's leading modern pop kings with his own genre known as 'tcha-tcho'.
Growing up in a middle class family in the Congolese capital Kinshasha, Antoine
Mumba started singing nursery rhymes and making up his own songs at a very young
age. Then, in his teens, a neighbour began teaching him guitar and encouraged
his songwriting. His family urged him to pursue his academic studies though and
he earned a degree in Business and Econ...
