Mario (1985) Franco’s biggest hit, it tells of an educated man who prefers to wallow in aging wealthy women. This gigolo doesn’t want to apply for jobs. Mario is the story of a Portuguese man. Mamou ...

Gaborone — Today marks the release of Franco alias Frank Lesokwane's ninth music album since his smash debut Ke Lela LeLona in 2001. The new album titled Baesekele, or bicycle, appears to have been ...

I’ll always have plenty of reasons to be grateful for the friendship of Jenny Graf Sheppard, a sound artist best known around these parts for her roles in Metalux and Bride of No No, but today I feel ...

Yves Emongo was very clear. No one, he told this writer, can wear the OK Jazz brand better than Franco did. The son of L’Okanga La Ndju Pene Luambo Makiadi, better known simply as Franco, was trying ...

The death of the undisputed king of rumba was a shock to millions of people not just in his home country, but across Africa. In his 40-year music career, Franco, as he was commonly known, had more ...

Fresh from launching his DVD for the new album, Baesekele, rumba star Franco Lesokwane says he is due to unleash his new sounds as early as next month, describing his new music as a fusion of samba ...

It’s just after 8pm on a warm Saturday night and the heavy sound of guitars lightens up the atmosphere inside the serene setting of the Tamambo Restaurant in Karen. The pulsating beat of “Tres Impoli” ...

African music traveled to the New World with slavery, only to return to Africa in the 1930’s and 40’s via 78 rpm phonograph records, broadcast by Radio Congo Belge in Léopoldville (now Kinshasha), ...