We leave you with one of the biggest dance numbers ever to hit the Democratic Republic of Congo. The tune “Mario” by the late great Congolese rumba singer and guitarist Franco. Except this version that came out several years after his death got a straight-on mambo treatment by the Senegalese band Africando.
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