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Congolese musician (born )

Musical artist

Pascal Lokua Kanza (born 21 April ), known professionally as Lokua Kanza, is a Congolese singer, songwriter, arranger, producer, philanthropist, and multi-instrumentalist.

He is known for his soulful, folksy sound, which is atypical of the dancefloor-friendly African rumba music.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} He sings in French, Swahili, Lingala, Portuguese, English, and Wolof.

He was a member of the coaching panel of the Voice Afrique Francophone from to ^[6][7]

Kanza began his career as a guitarist in Abeti Masikini's band Les Redoutables in and later moved to Ivory Coast, where he worked with Best Orchestra.^[8][9][10] In , Kanza relocated to Paris, where he emerged as a significant figure within the French world music scene.^[11][12] His eponymous debut solo album, Lokua Kanza, released in , catapulted him to st