Manu Katché

Emmanuel (Manu) Katché is a Batteur French born the October 27th 1958 with Saint-Maur-of-Ditches. It is also Auteur-compositeur, Parolier and interprets.

Biography

Of traditional formation , it started to study the Piano during its childhood, before working the battery and the percussions with the Conservatoire Higher National of Music of Paris. He knew the celebrity starting from 1986 while playing on the album So of Peter Gabriel.

It is one of the beaters more for these 20 last years. He played sides of a multitude of musicians of international repute, including inter alia: Al Di Meola, the Bee Gees, Daniel Lévi, To say Straits, Francis Cabrel, the Gipsy Kings, Jan Garbarek, Jean-Jacques Goldman, Joe Satriani, Laurent Voulzy, Loreena McKennitt, Michel Jonasz, Paul Young, Peter Gabriel, Stephan Eicher, Sting, Simple Minds, Tears For Fears, Tori Amos, Tracy Chapman, Youssou Dour, Joni Mitchell…

Year 1985 to 1988 Manu Katche belongs to the " group; Préface". who, apart from Katché (which was the principal singer), was composed of Jean-Yves D' Angelo (keyboards and songs) and Kamil Rustam (song and guitars). With the members of " Preface" It is then put to write arrangements for a great number of French artists what was worth to him, in 1985, the price of best arrangement to the Victoires of the music for the album of Michel Jonasz, Unis Towards Plain the .

Manu Katché devotes part of its work to the jazz. It particularly pays to be impressed at the fifteen years age by a disc of the guitarist John Abercrombie, like by the play with the piano of Keith Jarrett.

It carries out since 1989 a profitable collaboration with the saxophonist Jan Garbarek. Their first collaboration took the shape of a trio with the Indian violonist L. Shankar in 1989 with the theater the Cicada. Since, Manu Katché appears regularly in the group of the Norwegian saxophonist (5 discs). In 2005, at the time of its first disc as a leader for the German label ECM, It is Manu Katché which calls upon Garbarek for the album Neighborhood . In 2007, it leaves a new album as a leader at ECM, with the young Polish musicians Marcin Wasilewski and Slawomir Kurkiewicz, and Norwegian Trygve Seim and Mathias Eick.

Of 2004 with 2007, it takes part in the jury of the emission the Nouvelle Star on M6 with dimensions of Marianne James, Dove Attia and André Manoukian.

As from the Friday, April 13, 2007, Manu Katché presents One shot not, a musical program on Arte.

Price and rewards

1985 Victoire of the Music for “Better arrangements”
1987 Victoire of the Music for “Better musician of studio”
1987 “Best coming up drummer off the year” by the magazine Modern Drummer
1996 Victoire of the music for the Original soundtrack of the film an Indian in the city
2004 Knight of Arts and the Letters

Discography

It' S Butt Time BMG France (1992)
Neighborhood ECM (2005)
Playground ECM (2007)

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