[Afropop] Jupiter Bokondji and his group Okwess have been shaking up our notions about Congolese music since their debut album Hotel Univers dropped in 2013. The band actually formed in Kinshasa in 1990 when Bokondji recruited a team of young musicians to present a broader spectrum of Congo music than we hear in Kinshasa's rumba, soukous, ndombolo, etc. But it took awhile before the world took notice.
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