PARIS: Congolese music legend Aurlus Mabele has died in Paris of the Covid-19 coronavirus, his family and friends said on Friday. “My father died this morning from the coronavirus, please honour his memory,” his daughter rapper Liza Monet, said on Twitter. Claudy Siar, the presenter of Radio France International’s “Couleurs Tropicales” Afro music programme, also paid tribute to the 67-year-old singer known as the “King of Soukous“, a high-tempo modern variant of Congolese rumba. It is understood the singer died on Thursday shortly after being admitted to hospital. Mabele’s death comes as Afro jazz star Manu Dibango is also being treated for the virus in a French hospital.

Source: New Strait Times March 20, 2020 19:30 UTC