In the late 1930s and early 1940s in the Congos, musicians fused African rhythms with Afro-Cuban and other Caribbean and South American sounds-rhythms that were not entirely foreign to Congo, having been founded to varying degrees on musical traditions from the area.
In the late 1930s and early 1940s in the Congos, musicians developed a music uniquely Congolese. This music was based on traditional Congolese music, West African highlife music, as well as Cuban and other Caribbean and South American sounds-rhythms that were not entirely foreign to Congo, having been founded to varying degrees on musical traditions from the area.