Michel Boyibanda (22 February 1940 – 9 October 2024) was a Congolese soukous recording artist, composer, and vocalist.
[1][2] Boyibanda was born on 22 February 1940 in Mokouangou, in the Republic of the Congo.
He was a member of the Negro Band in Brazzaville, before he crossed the Congo River in 1964 to join the TPOK Jazz band in Leopoldville (now Kinshasa) in neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo.
He is also reported to have performed with other groups including Les Trios Freres, Rumbaya and Cercul Jazz.
[3] In 2015 he suffered the first of three Cardio Vascular Accidents (CVAs), commonly called "strokes".