Manu Dibango

Emmanuel Djoké Dibango , known as Manu Dibango , was born in a medium Protesting the December 12th 1933 with Douala with the Cameroun.

Biography

Student with Chartres in the Years 1950, it discovers the jazz there and learns the piano there but it is with Rheims where it prepares the baccalaureat which it initiates with the Saxophone and starts to occur in the boxes to the great displeasure of his father who cuts the vivres in 1956 to him.

Various contracts lead it to Brussels where it meets Coco, his wife, Antwerp and Charleroi where its Jazz Africanizes in contact with the Congolese medium in the environment of the accession of the Belgian Congo with independence in 1960. Joseph Kabasélé engages it in its orchestra and they record several discs which gain success in Africa and bring them to Léopoldville where Manu launches the Twist in 1962. On the other hand, the return to Cameroun in 1963 is difficult and it regains France.

Dick Rivers then Nino To shoe, large high-speed motorboats of the time, engages it before in 1969 it does not record personal compositions which make him join again with African success. In 1972, the Face B of a 45 turns, Drunk Makossa , makes the conquest of the United States and are worth to him to make a round there. Its African accents impassion the black musicians of America.

In 1992, Yves Bigot (FNAC Music) proposes to him to record " Wakafrica" , an album of resumptions of the largest African tubes with the cream of the African artists and the international musicians. The album, whose George Acogny assured the realization and Philippe Poustis the executive production, will appear in the whole world. Ambitious project of musical reunification of Africa, Manu revisited the inheritance of the song by inviting the Youssou tenors dour on Soul Makossa, King Sunny Ade on Hi-Life, Salif Keita on Emma, Angélique Kidjo and Papa Wemba on the very beautiful Friend Oh! without forgetting Peter Gabriel, Sinéad O' Connor, Dominic Miller (guitarist of Sting) and Manu Katché (inter alia)…

Manu Dibango is the official godfather of the twentieth edition of the Panafrican Festival of the cinema and the television of Ouagadougou (Fespaco) from February 24th to March 3rd, 2007.

Partial discography

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