Just as James Brown is the crucial figure in the development of most R and B and Rap, the Congolese guitarist Franco is THE key musical source for the modern music of most of sub-Saharan Africa. Born Francois Luambo Makiadi, Franco was a melodic and fluent guitarist who emerged as a teenager from the rumba craze that was still sweeping the Congo during the 1950s. He swiftly rose to head his own band, TPOK Jazz. Their slogan was; "On Entre OK on sort KO" (you enter OK and leave KOed.

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