Staff Benda Bilili top the bill at pre-Olympics free festival

Ricky Likabu leads Congolese band of disabled musicians and former street children on Africa Stage of BT River of MusicLess than three years ago, in autumn 2009, Ricky Likabu packed up the little cigarette stall outside the central market in Kinshasa that he ran from his wheelchair as he prepared to leave the Democrtaic Republic of the Congo for his first-ever British concert, at the Barbican. He is back in London again this weekend, with his band Staff Benda Bilili, now surely the most celebrat...

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