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Mourners packed the streets (Photo: Françis Wambole)

Thousands of fans have taken to the streets of the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital to mourn Madilu System, known as "Congo's King of Rumba".

Police controlled the crowds as they accompanied the singer's coffin from Kinshasa's main stadium, where it had lain for three days, to the cemetery.

Madilu played with the famous TP OK Jazz band led by the late Franco Luambo Makiadi in the 1980s.

Congolese music is world renowned and has an important place in life there.

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Since his death at the age of 57, the country's radio stations have been playing Madilu's music for hours on end in tribute to him.

'Congo's greatest composer'

The BBC's Arnaud Zajtman in Kinshasa says many thousands turned out to pay their respects at the stadium in one of the country's best attended funerals in many years.

Madilu was one of DR Congo's most popular musicians

"Since you are gone, we do not live, we do not eat,"