Mario - Franco & T.P. O.K. Jazz

Franco, leader of T.P. O.K. Jazz and the giant of Congolese rumba, had one of his biggest hits with Mario, a mocking story of a young man living off an older woman. The song is long, and its shape is the lesson: a conversational sung story first, then a sebene in which the guitars, Franco's own sharp, stinging lines among them, take over and circle each other. Choose it for the classic rumba at its most confident.