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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...