@MBILIA BEL...M'bilia Bel is a Congolese soukous singer, known as the Queen of Congolese rumba. She was born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1959. M'bilia Bel became successful in the early 1980s when she recorded and toured with Tabu Ley Rochereau, and made her own solo albums. She became the first female musician from Africa who could claim popularity all over the entire continent and beyond.