Ngoma (record label)
Ngoma | |
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Founded | 1948 |
Founder | Nicolas Jéronimidis |
Status | Defunct |
Genre | African music |
Country of origin | Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) |
Location | Léopoldville (now Kinshasa) |
Ngoma was one of the first record labels intended to provide local African music to the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The name Ngoma came from the Kikongo word for drum.[1] The label was created in 1948 by the Greek businessman Nicolas Jéronimidis, and was active until 1968. Its catalog included many known artists at that time including , who is said to have popularized rumba during the 1930s, Antoine Wendo Kolosoy, one of the biggest names of all-time in Congolese music, the Angolan , , , Paul Mwanga and , the guitarist who is said to have taught the famous Congolese musician François Luambo Makiadi (Franco) his first guitar chords.
Notes[]
- ^ Stewart, p. 26
References[]
- Gary Stewart (2000). Rumba on the River: A History of the Popular Music of the Two Congos. Verso. ISBN 978-1-85984-368-0.
See also[]
- List of record labels
Categories:
- African record labels
- Defunct record labels
- 1948 establishments in the Belgian Congo
- Democratic Republic of the Congo music
- History of Kinshasa