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LOVE SONGS
There's nothing like love to trigger lyrical passion as many of the musicians featured on World on your Street have shown. Click below to hear their love songs
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1 Flores
2 Sonja
3 Agapi mou
4 Ambaroodka
5 罢辞蝉丑茅
6 Laner Velibesamim
7 Kabakani
8 We
9 Zavtra
10 Aae ho meri
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Contributor
LINO ROCHA
T脡A HODZIC
MODESTE HUGUES
HUDEYDI
TARA JAFFE
DANNY SHINE
KOKO KANYINDA MUKALA
JOSEPHINE ONIYAMA
LEN LIGGINS
BEENA VALEMBIA
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Track: Kabakani
Artist: Koko Kanyinda Mukala
Music: Congolese
Chosen by: Koko (Bristol)
 听听Listen to Koko and his band, Soukous Koumbele, perform 'Kabakani'
'Kabakani' is a love song in praise of a beautiful woman called Kabakani. The singer admires Kabakani's dark skin which he says is the beauty of our century, the beauty of our ancestors. So he asks her to go out with him. It's a rumba which is the most popular music of the Congo. It started in the 1950's when our first guitarist, Wendo So, took a guitar from the Belgian guitarists and evolved the rumba. The traditional beat of my tribe is also related to the rumba which ended up in Cuba and came back to us. We sing our music in Lingala which comes from my tribe, Bangala but it was the language used by the military originally. When I'm performing this song I feel very happy because when you play a love song you've got to be happy to make it work!
Click here to read Koko's story in full.
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