Known as the King of Sokous -- a robust genre of rhumba music style that originated from the Congo in the 1980s -- Mabele took dance halls by storm across Kenya with his dazzling dance style.
His fans called him the king of soukous - a high-tempo Congolese dance music popular across Africa. His daughter, French singer Liza Monet, tweeted on Thursday that her father had died of coronavirus.