CULTURETECHLENSEmpire Bakuba
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Combined Graph record U-01454 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-I-0098. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.
Empire Bakuba was a soukous band formed in Zaire (now DR Congo) in 1972 by Pepe Kalle, Papy Tex and Dilu Dilumona, ex-members of Lipua Lipua; infobox origin Kinshasa, DR Congo; one of the leading Kinshasa youth bands of the 1970s-80s soukous scene; activity scarce after Pepe Kalle's 1998 death.
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Empire Bakuba was a soukous band formed in Zaire (now DR Congo) in 1972 by Pepe Kalle, Papy Tex and Dilu Dilumona, ex-members of Lipua Lipua; infobox origin Kinshasa, DR Congo; one of the leading Kinshasa youth bands of the 1970s-80s soukous scene; activity scarce after Pepe Kalle's 1998 death.
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- City: Kinshasa
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- Kinshasa — located in
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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_Bakuba (verification source · master store)
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Empire Bakuba was a soukous band formed in Zaire (now DR Congo) in 1972 by Pepe Kalle, Papy Tex and Dilu Dilumona, ex-members of Lipua Lipua; infobox origin Kinshasa, DR Congo; one of the leading Kinshasa youth bands of the 1970s-80s soukous scene; activity scarce after Pepe Kalle's 1998 death.
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