"Indépendance Cha Cha" was a song performed by Joseph Kabasele (Le Grand Kallé) from the group African Jazz in the popular African Rumba style in 1960 (the so-called "Year of Africa") to celebrate the imminent independence of the Belgian Congo. The song was written on the January 20, 1960 and first played at the Hotel Plaza in Brussels on January 27, 1960, when Le Grand Kallé was in Belgium at the "Round Table Conference" on Congolese Independence.

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