Tabu Ley Rochereau

Person · Open Library

Died

2013

Works

1

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Active from

1940-11-13

Active to

2013-11-30

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

50,211

Total plays

294,570

Tabu Ley Rochereau (Pascal-Emmanuel Sinamoyi Tabu, 13 November 1937 or 1940 – 30 November 2013) was a leading African rumba singer-songwriter from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He was the leader of Orchestre Afrisa International, as well as one of Africa's most influential vocalists and prolific songwriters. Along with guitarist Docteur Nico Kasanda, Tabu Ley pioneered soukous (African rumba) and internationalised his music by fusing elements of Congolese folk music with Cuban, Caribbean

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

   · 2010 · cited 30,946x

2. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,879x

3. An obesity-associated gut microbiome with increased capacity for energy harvest

   · 2006 · cited 10,647x

4. Human gut microbes associated with obesity

   · 2006 · cited 7,699x

5. A core gut microbiome in obese and lean twins

   · 2008 · cited 6,752x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Pascal

Gender

male

Citizenship

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Place of birth

Bandundu Province

Place of death

Saint-Luc University Hospital

Occupation

singer-songwriter

Political party

Rally for Congolese Democracy

Languages spoken

French

Genre

Congolese rumba

Instrument

voice

Image

Press photo of Tabu Ley Rochereau in San Francisco (1980).jpg

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