Loningisa was made famous by the emergence the African rumba band OK Jazz, whose music became popular, and a big influence on African and Congolese popular music.

August - Edmundo Ros forms his own rumba band.

He worked as a street photographer, assisted a French roller-skating team and was drummer and assistant road manager of a rumba band.

In 1940, he formed his own five-piece rumba band, performing at London's most popular clubs and restaurants, including the Bagatelle restaurant, frequented by high society and the Royal Family.

His first gig was in a rumba band of five musicians optimistically called the Siboney Septet.

And Kelvis, a Cuban guitarist and singer who now lives in Spain, turned himself into a one-man rumba band, one more promising merger of Latin roots and alternative ambitions.

They had a harder sound than most rumba bands and were almost unchallenged in that area in Kenya due to the closing of the Tanzanian border in 1977.

Alabina, rumba band.

They are similar to the band Los Chichos, a rumba band from Spain, popular in the 1970s.