PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Staff Benda Bilili's Congolese Rhythms Hit Global Scale

With shows at Cannes and other stops and the documentary 'Benda Bilili!' due out, the Kinshasa band of mostly disabled musicians is riding a life-changing wave of popularity. In the long history of music, there have been improbable success stories. But even in such company, as a drunk man in the French documentary "Benda Bilili!" argues, there has never been anything like the Congolese "street-orchestra" Staff Benda Bilili...

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