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to the people of the

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. The name Ngoma came from the Kikongo word for drum.Stewart, p. 26 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

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, 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

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n Manuel d'Oliveira, Léon Bukasa, Antoine Mundanda,

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and Albert Luampasi, the guitarist who is said to have taught the famous Congolese musician François Luambo Makiadi (Franco) his first guitar chords.

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*{{cite book, title=Rumba on the River: A History of the Popular Music of the Two Congos, year=2000, publisher=Verso, isbn=978-1-85984-368-0, author=Gary Stewart

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