DIBLO DIBALA

August 04, 2010 - 09:00 PM

Price: 15 $

Club Balattou

4372 boul St-Laurent (corner Marie-Anne) Montréal,QC H2W 1Z5

514-845-5447

www.balattou.com

Description of the concert:

“Move, move…. Move, move, move.” A star of soukouss, a musical genre that has rocked Congolese rumba and changed its look to produce a mix of traditional African and Caribbean beats, this accomplished musician has done the rounds of the planet’s world music clubs. With his legendary guitar solos and fingers that pluck the strings at hallucinating speed, he has helped popularize African music in the West

Diblo Dibala (DR Congo)

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Biography of the artist:

 It could be argued that Diblo Dibala was born with a guitar in his hands. This was almost the case. Diblo was born in 1954 in the city of Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of Congo (then the Belgian Congo. At age 6, he moved to Kinshasa and, nine years later, joined the TPOK Jazz group. He played alongside local groups such as Vox Africa and Bella Bella, later to become Orchestre ...