Staff Benda Bilili are a group of paraplegic street musicians who live around the grounds of the zoo in Kinshasa, Congo. Four senior singers/guitarists on makeshift wheelchairs are supported by a young, all-acoustic rhythm section, plus a 17 year-old prodigy performing infectious guitar-like solos on a one-string electric lute he designed and built himself out of a tin can.

Recorded and produced by Vincent Kenis, their debut album Très Très Fort will be released on Crammed Discs in late February 2009.

A feature film about Staff Benda Bilili (trailer above) is about to be completed by film producers Renaud Barrett and Florent de la Tullaye.