TPOK Jazz legend Josky Kiambukuta dead
Legendary TPOK Jazz crooner Josky Kiambukuta is dead. The
Chandra singer died in a Kinshasa hospital on Sunday, March 7, to be yet another dark addition to fallen TPOK greats such as the band’s founder Luambo Luanzo Makiadi better known as Franco. The colossus died in 1989.
Other departed TPOK heavyweights include Madilu System who sang
Pesa Position and is a household name with Kenya’s Rhumba lovers. Also gone is Simaro 'The Poet' Lutumba, he of
Testament ya Bowule fame. He died in March 2019.
Simaro 'The Poet' Lutumba [Photo: Courtesy]
Others are Papa Ndombe Opetum, who died of cardiac arrest on May 24, 2012, and Mose Fan Fan, whose hit