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Orchestra Super Mazembe under the leadership of Didos Longwa Mutonkole became the kings of the Kenya dance floor from 1976 but it took a long ladder to reach up there. The originals were Longwa, Dodo Doris, Kilame Katele, and Kassongo Songoley, who, as teenagers, formed themselves into a little band called Oshi Jazz. Their parents…
In 1969, the small mining township of Shituru situated alongside the copper mine of Lukasi four young lads set up a brand-new teenagers’ band Oshi Jazz (Orchestre De Shirutu Jazz). These teenage boys Didos Longwa, Mutonkole Kilambe, Katele, Kassongo Songo Ley, Loboko Mangala, Dodo Doris were soon quite the local rage, but as inspired to…