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# Niwel Tsumbu
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/my-music-rhiannon-giddens/episode/niwel-tsumbu-dkan23/
- Published: 2025-05-21T16:00:58.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-21T11:23:35.000Z
- Description: Rhiannon visits guitarist Niwel Tsumbu on his family farm near Kinsale in County Cork.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: My Music with Rhiannon Giddens, Season 3, Episode 5, #ZZZ_Episode_b9863bb9-93c8-4d59-9210-b3ace166c9eb, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_abf9b76e-336a-4363-9407-727b111ad940, #geo-us, #v1.16

Niwel Tsumbu is a guitarist and singer who grew up in Kinshasa with the traditional Soukous music of the Congo. He studied classical guitar at a prestigious music school in Central Africa before moving to Ireland, where he married and is raising his family. Rhiannon visits Niwel at his and his wife’s family farm near Kinsale in County Cork.