Franco Cordeo

Franco & Le TPOK Jazz - Francophonic. Africa's Greatest: A Retrospective Vol.1 & 2 1953-1989 (2009) [2+2CD] {Sterns Music}
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© 2008, 2009 Sterns Music / Sterns Africa | STCD3041~42 / STCD3046~47
Jazz / World Music / African Traditions / Afro Pop

From his first recordings in 1953 to his death in 1989, Franco Luambo (to use one of the many possible extensions of his name) dominated the music of sub-Saharan Africa in a way that is difficult to over-estimate. And the fact that he is still comparatively unknown in the world of ‘world music’ is a travesty of justice that these 2CDs, with their rare photos, thoroughly reasearched and eloquent notes, sets out to redress.

Franco - Francophonic, Vol 2, 1980-1988 (2009) {2CD Set, Stern's Music STCD 3046-47}
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© 1980-88, 2009 Sterns Music / Sterns Africa | STCD3046~47
Jazz / World Music / African Traditions / Afro Pop

The Congolese guitarist, singer, bandleader and composer Francois Luambo Makiadi—most commonly known as Franco but with a raft of other nicknames including The Grand Master and The Sorcerer of The Guitar—had by the time of his death in 1989 dominated the elegant but gutsy genre of Congolese rumba for over two decades. Born in 1938, he had been the biggest African music phenomenon of his age.