- Audience: 15.3K
- Video Views: 3.68M
- # videos: 25
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Category:
Music
Music of Latin America
Pop music
Rock music
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Date Created: 2009-03-04
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Date Updated: 2024-06-28
Audience activity: 240
Views per video: 147.24K
Keywords:
african
music
soukous
guitar
rumba
don
keller
Don Keller is a rare channeler of the rhythmic, tropical sounds of soukous and Congolese rumba music. The Seattle-based guitarist and composer first learned soukous music in his 20s without prior experience with African music. For more than a decade, Don has interwoven bright lead guitar lines with hypnotic drums, earthy bass, relentless rhythm guitar, and vocals reminiscent of Franco & le TPOK Jazz, Zaiko Langa Langa, Nyboma & Kamalé Dynamique, and Kanda Bongo Man. His passion is bringing back the joyous sounds of music that reigned in Zaire from the ‘60s through the ‘80s and has worked on projects with Nyboma, Malage De Lugendo and Jeannot Bel.