AFH118 - Jupiter & Okwess International

Jupiter Bokondji (born 1965) is a musician from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. He and his band, Okwess International, released their first album, Hotel Univers, in May 2013 in the United Kingdom. The band was created in 1990, and they toured the African continent. However, at the same time that their popularity grew, a civil war broke out in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Some band members fled to Europe to escape violence, but Jupiter stayed in Kinshasa. As the war died down, his popularity gre