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The music industry and copyright in the Democratic Republic of the Congo trace their origins to the late 1940s, when Léopoldville became the central hub of phonographic production in Central Africa. Beginning in 1947 with the establishment of the first record labels such as Olympia, Ngoma, Opika, Loningisa, CEFA, and Editions Esengo, the city attracted musicians from across the Congo and neighboring territories who recorded songs later pressed in Brussels. These early years saw the emergence of modern Congolese music from its folkloric roots, with pioneering figures such as Antoine Kasongo Kitenge, Antoine Wendo Kolosoy, Henri Bowane, Jean Bosco Mwenda, and Joseph Athanase Tshamala Kabasele, who laid the groundwork for Congolese rumba and the country's urban popular music.
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