Dad Wemba, one of Africa's most prominent music stars, has kicked the bucket subsequent to giving way in front of an audience amid a celebration in the Ivory Coast, the occasion coordinators said Sunday.
Dad Wemba, who was known as the "lord of Congolese rumba" for conveying the exceptionally famous sound to a global group of onlookers, was 66.
The showy vocalist passed on not long after subsequent to performing three tunes at the Urban Musical Festival Anoumabo (FEMUA) in Abidjan, the coordinators said.
The FEMUA administration communicated its "profound distress" at the passing of a man who has been at the front line of African music for over four decades.
Dad Wemba was conceived Jules Shungu Wembadio Pene Kikumba in June 1949 in what was then Belgian Congo.
He started his singing profession in religious choirs in which he built up his trademark high range voice, making his presentation in the capital Kinshasa toward the end of the 1960s.
He acquired his adoration for tune from his mom, who was an expert "wailing lady" at funerals.
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