Staff Benda Bilili | World music

Brighton DomeStaff Benda Bilili's story makes them sound like something Richard Littlejohn invented to work his readership into a fury about arts funding: severely disabled African musicians and street children, discovered living in poverty in Kinshasa performing songs about the polio that afflicted them, and about life on the streets using, among other things, an instrument made out of rubbish.But, as tonight's show proves, Staff Benda Bilili would be a remarkable band regardless of their backg...

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