Editions Esengo
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Editions Esengo
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Editions Esengo was a record studio in the Congo, which is noted for assembling to their label Rock-a-Mambo, African Jazz, and Conga Jazz, three of the great powerhouse bands of Congolese rumba. Esengo is taken from the Lingala language, and is the word for "happiness" or "joy." In 1956, a Greek businessman, Dino Antonopoulos, sought to start a new music publishing firm in Leopoldville (Kinshasa). He established the enterprise by purchasing material from the recently defunct Opika record label a
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Record studio
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