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Biography
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Léon Bukasa
Real name: Bukasa Tsonza Léon
Effective period / Period of releases: 1955
b.: 1925 (Jadotville, Likasi, Congo)Congolese singer, guitarist and composer. His musical career begins in the end of the 1940's, when Henri Bowane presents him to Ngoma (2), where he quickly becomes a star. Bukasa is among the rare Congolese musician that used to sing in Swahili, Tshiluba and Lingala.