Staff Benda Bilili
Staff Benda Bilili are a group of street musicians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They used to live around the grounds of the zoo in the country's capital city, Kinshasa, and play music which is rooted in soukous, with elements of old-school rhythm and blues and reggae. The core of the band consists of four senior singers/guitarists, who are paraplegic (they had poliomyelitis when they were young) and move around in spectacularly customized tricycles. They are backed by a younger rhythm section consisting of abandoned street children who were taken under the protection of the older members of the band. The soloist is an 18-year-old boy (2009) who plays guitar-like solos on an electrified one-stringed lute he designed and built himself out of a tin can. The group's name translates
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Staff Benda Bilili
Staff Benda Bilili are a group of street musicians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They used to live around the grounds of the zoo in the country's capital city, Kinshasa, and play music which is rooted in soukous, with elements of old-school rhythm and blues and reggae. The core of the band consists of four senior singers/guitarists, who are paraplegic (they had poliomyelitis when they were young) and move around in spectacularly customized tricycles. They are backed by a younger rhythm section consisting of abandoned street children who were taken under the protection of the older members of the band. The soloist is an 18-year-old boy (2009) who plays guitar-like solos on an electrified one-stringed lute he designed and built himself out of a tin can. The group's name translates
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Staff Benda Bilili are a group ...... se Hope for Congo compilation.
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Staff Benda Bilili est un orch ...... ment de personnes handicapées.
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Staff Benda Bilili is een band ...... o in Amsterdam werd aangedaan.
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Staff Benda Bilili ist eine Ba ...... eprojekt Mbongwana Star tätig.
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スタッフ・ベンダ・ビリリ (Staff Benda Bili ...... として公開された。これはカンヌ映画祭の監督週間に出品された。
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Staff Benda Bilili est un orch ...... ment de personnes handicapées.
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Staff Benda Bilili is een band ...... variant van een Washtub bass.
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Staff Benda Bilili ist eine Ba ...... tionale Bekanntheit erlangten.
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スタッフ・ベンダ・ビリリ (Staff Benda Bili ...... rt) でのクラムドディスクからのレコードデビューに至った。
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