Niwel Tsumbu

Niwel Tsumbu (guitar and voice) is a guitarist and singer who grew up with the swinging soukous music from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Strongly influenced by guitarists such as Paco de Lucía, Luambo Makiadi, Baden Powell, and Joe Pass, he has combined these different styles and blurred the boundaries of African, classical, and jazz music with his amazingly virtuosic, passionate, and graceful guitar playing.