Staff Benda Bilili on the summer stage in Detmold

Staff Benda Bilili is a music group from Congo. Their concert in Detmold as part of the 2011 Summer Stage events was a resounding success.

"Staff Benda Bilili is a band from the center of the Congolese capital Kinshasa, which emerged from a street musician project involving physically disabled people who, as polio victims, lived in the area around Kinshasa Zoo in their homemade wheelchairs, some of them homeless. They were the subject of a French documentary film called “Benda Bilili!” (Lingala for “Open your consciousness!” or “Make the hidden visible!”). They managed to get a record deal and record a debut album, which enabled them to escape homelessness and gain international fame."
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