Usually means: Congolese dance music with guitars.
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  1. soukous: Merriam-Webster
  2. soukous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. soukous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. soukous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. soukous: Wordnik
  6. soukous: Wiktionary
  7. soukous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. soukous: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. soukous: Dictionary.com
  10. Soukous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. soukous: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  (music) A genre of African popular music, resembling rumba, that originated in the Congo region in the 1930s.

Similar:
zouk, kuduro, kizomba, zouk love, songo, kaseko, sokah, soca, ndombolo, songo-salsa, more...

Opposite:
classical, jazz, blues, hip-hop.

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Similar:
zouk, kuduro, kizomba, zouk love, songo, kaseko, sokah, soca, ndombolo, songo-salsa, more...

Opposite:
classical, jazz, blues, hip-hop.



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