From street to screen: the story of Staff Benda Bilili

Staff Benda Bilili's remarkable story is coming to UK cinemas. Robin Denselow talks to the men who made it all happen.It's an intriguing imponderable of the African music scene. If Renaud Barret, a Paris-based graphic designer, hadn't had a girlfriend who went to eastern Congo to write about child soldiers, then would the most successful African band of recent years still be busking on the streets of Kinshasa? It's quite possible. And it's certain that a most extraordinary music documentary woul...

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