Congolese songstress Mbilia Bel during a press conference at Meladen Club in Nairobi’s Upper Hill on June 27, 2017. Apart from performances, she will have charity engagements that will see her visit Lang’ata Women’s Prison. PHOTO | WILLIAM OERI | NATION MEDIA GROUP
Mbilia has been part of exciting performances during visits to Kenya over the last 30 years or so, the first being as part of her mentor Tabu Ley Rochereau’s Afrisa International Band.
Despite expressing a desire to go slow on live performances, Mbilia is still as agile as ever and, to prove this, she did a captivating jig on her arrival in Nairobi on Monday.
Mbilia will on July 7 perform at Kisumu’s Victoria Railway Club.
Congolese musician Mbilia Bel, who flew into Nairobi on Monday evening to a rousing welcome at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, dropped a hint about slowing down and retiring from staging live concerts.
The songstress was upbeat about her concert tour that will see her reunite with her Kenyan fans and win over new ones during her two shows in Nairobi and Kisumu, and charity engagements that will see her visit Lang’ata Women’s Prison.
