DRC: Kin'Gongolo Kiniata group records its first album

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For their first concert outside the DRC, the musicians of Kin'Gongolo kiniata bewitched the Transmusicales audience in Rennes 2022. © Guillaume Thibault/RFI

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They will be talked about in 2023. Originally from the working-class neighborhoods of Kinshasa, the four members of the Kin'Gongolo Kiniata group are resourceful geniuses.

They manufacture their instruments with recycled materials and, for the first time, they came to play in France in mid-December and their music delighted the public.

Before returning to the DRC where they recorded their first album, RFI had the chance to meet them.

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