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  RFI Musique - - Manu DIBANGO
Dibango is at least as much a journalist, an anthropologist or a philosopher as he is a musician.
Emmanuel N'Djoké Dibango was born on December 12, 1933 in Douala, Cameroon.
Manu went to the temple in the evening and his mother was in charge of the choir.
www.rfimusique.com /siteEn/biographie/biographie_6095.asp   (2931 words)

  
 Manu Dibango - Music Downloads - Online
Bio: Dibango is Cameroon's, and perhaps Africa's, best-known jazz saxophonist.
In 1960, Dibango was one of the founding members of the Zairean band African Jazz, with whom he spent five years.
World attention came to Dibango with the release in 1972 of Soul Makossa, a work that actually had precious little of the makossa sound in it, and scored later hits with Seventies and Ibida.
musicstore.connect.com /artist/300/131/75/30013175.html   (175 words)

  
 Manu Dibango (The Leopard Man's African Music Guide)
Saxophonist, pianist and composer, Manu Dibango is one of the veterans in African music and the creator of the gripping "Soul Makossa", that’s also the title of his biggest hit from 1973.
Manu Dibango was born in Cameroon, but left his homeland in 1949 when he was sent to France to complete his education.
Manu Dibango is a typical international musician who means more to European and American jazz than for African music as such.
www.leopardmannen.no /d/dibango.manu.asp?lang=gb   (571 words)

  
 World Music Features Manu Dibango World Music at Global Rhythm - The Destination for World Music
With his bald head and dark glasses, Manu Dibango is the epitome of cool.
Dibango was invited to return to the Congo with Kasabele and join African Jazz for a marathon recording session: 40 songs in just two weeks.
Dibango managed to get the Cameroon government to pay for a record in praise of the national soccer team, competing in the African Nations Cup, and Dibango duly recorded and released “Mouvement Ewondo.” The flip side, “Soul Makossa,” was almost a throwaway, based on a local version of the traditional
www.globalrhythm.net /WorldMusicFeatures/ManuDibango.cfm   (1072 words)

  
 Manu Dibango - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Manu Dibango (Emmanuel N'Djoké Dibango, born December 12, 1933 in Douala, Cameroon) is a Cameroonian saxophonist and vibraphone player.
He developed a musical style fusing jazz and traditional Cameroonian music.
Biography of Manu Dibango, from Radio France Internationale
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Manu_Dibango   (154 words)

  
 The Sun News On-line | Blocbuster   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Although there was the octogenerian Andy Hamilton and Mama Africa Miriam Makeba, Manu Dibango was undeniably one of the oldest stars on parade at the 7th edition of the annual jazz showcase.
But with Manu Dibango, as the crowd at the Kippies Stage at the International Conference Centre venue would attest to, age was more of an advantage than a disadvantage.
Dibango who was listed among top100 gays in a magazine article insists that the article must have been engineered by his multiple enemies to smear his image.
www.sunnewsonline.com /webpages/features/blockbuster/2006/may/06/blockbuster-6-05-2006-001.htm   (863 words)

  
 Manu Dibango
Manu Dibango is extraordinarily versatile, having played almost every style of music you care to mention: soul, reggae, jazz, spirituals, blues...
Manu's first album was recorded in 1969 and in 1970 he accompanied Franklin Boukaka on a classic 12-track album (see CDs).
Manu performed alongside Cuban Clave Y Guaguanco at the Barbican in London in 1999 and played there again in April 2001 with the spectacular Afro-Funk Big Band including Richard Bona, Claude Deppa and Tony Allen.
www.africanmusiciansprofiles.com /manudibango.htm   (425 words)

  
 African Music Encyclopedia: Manu Dibango   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Manu Dibango, born Emmanuel Dibango N'Djocke in 1933 in Douala, Cameroon, is a true African international superstar.
Though his parents were both Protestant, Manu was considered to be the child of a mixed marriage (his father is of the Yabassi people, his mother of the Douala), Manu always felt that he was a divided man.
Soon Manu met Francis Bebey, another African expatriate, and together the two began to explore the jazz scene in Calais.
africanmusic.org /artists/dibango.html   (310 words)

  
 Manu Dibango The Very Best Of Manu Dibango CD
Manu Dibango is the man who gave soul music its Afro transfusion back at the start of the 1970s with Soul Makossa, (track 1).
Emmanuel Dibango was born in 1933 in Douala, Cameroon, where he began singing as part of his mother’s church choir.
Manu stayed a lot longer than originally planned, soon becoming a star in his own right and forming a band called African Soul, in which he played organ and/or sax on his interpretations of American music, releasing 45rpm singles such as Ekedi (Track 2).
www.unionsquaremusic.co.uk /title.php?ALBUM_ID=123&LABEL_ID=2   (999 words)

  
 Manu Dibango (1933 - )
Manu Dibango (born December 12, 1933) is a Cameroonian saxophonist and vibraphone player.
Dibango is Cameroon's, and perhaps Africa's, best-known jazz saxophonist.
No review of a Manu Dibango album is complete without the now clichéd reference to "Soul Makossa." Dibango fused jazz and African rhythms, with his funky saxophone to produce a single that launched his career worldwide.
www.jahsonic.com /ManuDibango.html   (331 words)

  
 'Soul Makosa' Man For Ghana - Manu Dibango
Manu’s first album was recorded in 1969 and in 1970 he accompanied Franklin Boukaka on a classic 12-track album.
There are Rough Guides to the music of whole countries but Manu warrants one all to himself: the 13-track album The Rough Guide to Manu Dibango (2004) has the full range of his songs, classics and rarities.
Manu’s autobiography was originally published in French in 1989 with the English translation,Three Kilos of Coffee, published in 1994.
afgen.com /manu_dimango.html   (414 words)

  
 Funky16Corners: Manu Dibango - Weya (45 edit)
Dibango’s 1972 ‘Soul Makossa’ was a huge international hit, spawning cover versions and rip offs all over the world (it hit the US top 20 in the summer of 1973).
When he hit with ‘Soul Makossa’, Manu Dibango had already been performing since the mid 1950’s, in France and Cameroon, originally as a jazz musician, and eventually fusing jazz, pop and African sounds.
A tune like ‘Soul Makossa’, with Dibango’s driving sax and chanting was as hard, funky, and danceable as anything coming out of the US during the same period.
funky16corners.blogspot.com /2005/08/manu-dibango-weya-45-edit.html   (1131 words)

  
 6moons.com - world music: Manu Dibango "Sax Makossa: Afro Avantgarde"
Manu's effortless mixing of cultures has origins in his childhood.
Just as Manu Dibango learned from his fellow musicians, they learned from him.
On the Rough Guide to Manu Dibango, it is Manu who personally selected the songs from his large musical archive to cover his creative period of 1966 to 1992.
www.6moons.com /worldmusic/manudibango.html   (547 words)

  
 World Music Legends Manu Dibango World Music at Global Rhythm - The Destination for World Music
By then Dibango’s parents had sent him to France to further his education, with the intent of turning him into a professional man. But all began to be lost when he started studying piano.
Cameroon lost in the final, and the single was forgotten by most people, except Dibango, who saw something in “Soul Makossa.” Back in Paris, he recut the song.
Since 1985, Dibango has been established as the elder statesman of African music, feted all over the globe, collaborating with any number of artists, and continuing to release his own albums.
www.globalrhythm.net /WorldMusicLegends/ManuDibango.cfm   (804 words)

  
 BBC - Radio 3 - WOMAD 2003 - Manu Dibango and Ray Lema profile
Manu Dibango left his homeland of Cameroon to cut his teeth in the steamy jazz world of 1950s Brussels and Paris, following the trail scouted by his musical heroes Duke Ellington, Lester Young and Charlie Parker.
Pursuing a burning hunch that African jazz could be taken to a higher level, Dibango went solo and recorded the classic "Soul Makossa" in 1972 which went stratospheric and became the first Francophone single ever to hit the upper reaches of US charts.
Since then Dibango has released seminal Afro-jazz albums like "Negropolitaines" Vols 1 & 2 and "Wakafrica", performed with stars too numerous to mention, written an autobiography and generally mellowed into the role of an elder statesman of African music.
www.bbc.co.uk /radio3/world/womad2003/profiles_manudibango.shtml   (813 words)

  
 Recording review: Manu Dibango   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
On Mboa' Su, the 67-year-old Manu Dibango returns to his musical roots, back to the night clubs of Cameroon, returning to the youthful energy that lives timelessly on his older recordings.
Although Dibango crosses nicely to Afro-Cuban style, as on "Maya Ma Bobe," or American gospel, like "Sango Yesu Cristo," he feels right at home with Franklin Boukaka's "Aye Africa," or "Weya Mouna." His tribute to the late Fela Kuti, "Big Blow," is respectful, accurate, and fun.
While Dibango could easily rest on the success of his past works, he continues to earn respect by re-launching his career in new directions.
www.rootsworld.com /reviews/dibango2000.html   (256 words)

  
 Manu Dibango : Waku Juju - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
In 1982 Dibango was pretty far from both Cameroon's traditional music and his modern version of it, in which he used rock organs and a heavy beat.
This is a style that Dibango masters well, and the result is a record more suited for the lounge than for the dancefloor.
This is a good work of world fusion, with fusion seen as both a generic and a cultural term, but it is not one of Dibango's most interesting albums, or the album to buy if you're looking for dance tracks.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,76059,00.html   (251 words)

  
 Dibango, Manu: Three Kilos of Coffee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Dibango, Manu and Danielle Rouard Three Kilos of Coffee: An Autobiography.
In 1948, at the age of fifteen, Manu Dibango left Africa for France, bearing three kilos of coffee for his adopted family and little else.
This book chronicles Manu Dibango's remarkable rise from his birth in Douala, Cameroon, to his worldwide success—with Soul Makossa in 1972—as the first African musician ever to record a top 40s hit.
www.press.uchicago.edu /cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/12616.ctl   (323 words)

  
 Manu Dibango : Afrovision - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
Dibango displays his virtuosity on vocals, saxophone, percussions, and keyboards in a set that attempts to pick up commercially where Soul Makossa ended.
Most recording artists releasing albums in the late '70s included a disco tune, and Dibango is no exception; "Big Blow," a mighty slab of African funk, is his contribution to the style.
The title cut "Afrovision" is the most unusual cut; the rhythms are different, complex, and indigenous to Dibango's West African roots.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,76055,00.html   (178 words)

  
 Manu Dibango News
News about Manu Dibango continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
News from the grapevine have it that a popular Ghanaian promoter is preparing the grounds for African soul master, Manu Dibango to perform in Ghana.
With over thirty music albums under his belt, Emmanuel N'Djok popularly known as Manu Dibango is no doubt one of the continent's most prolific musicians.
www.topix.net /who/manu-dibango   (222 words)

  
 Dibango, Manu
Sax-Player, composer, singer, pianist and arranger, Manu Dibango is Cameroon's musical superstar.
Always ahead of his time, Dibango was always on the look out for new influences and sounds.
Mixing Stax, Tamla, with that unrelenting African percussion, with riffs ala Parker, Junior Walker and King Curtis this collection begins in 1967, exposing some rare cuts from Dibango and focusing on the period creative heights of this master musician and finishes with the brand new storming dance floor filler DJ Flex mix of “Soul Makossa”.
www.wrasserecords.com /artists/info/56.html   (134 words)

  
 JR.com: Manu Dibango - Wakafrika in Music: Cameroonian:
Raised in Cameroon, torn between the divisive ethnic groups of his mother's and father's families, Manu Dibango was easily distracted from the traditions of his homeland.
As a world traveler and alto saxophonist, he soaked up diverse influences, including funk, jazz, various African musical styles, and ultimately hip-hop and rap, and collaborated with a variety of global musicians.
II The Rough Guide to Manu Dibango Negropolitaines Vol.
www.jr.com /xs-manu-dibango-wakafrika-in-music-cameroonian--pi!3820983.html   (392 words)

  
 MTV | Manu Dibango - CD's, Albums, Tracks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
He has worked with musicians as diverse as Fela Kuti, Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare, Don Cherry, and...
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 Big Blow by Manu Dibango: Song Music Downloads   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Sorry, at this time no downloads have been found for "Big Blow" on album Soul Makossa.
Check the albums tab for other downloads from Manu Dibango.
Sorry, at this time no streams have been found for "Big Blow" on album Soul Makossa.
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 Barnes & Noble.com - Music: Soul Makossa, Manu Dibango, CD
Buy it for all the other great stuff, like "Dangwa," a tropical funk workout in which Malekani Gerry sloshes pungent guitar juice all over Dibango's bouncy arrangement.
Or the smoky, reverb-drenched "Nights in Zeralda" where the bassist known only as Long Manfred carries Dibango's serpentine sax lines along like cargo on a Congo River night boat.
Or "Lili," which starts off on a nostalgic rumba slow-grind that sets you up for a quick Congolese-style soukous shift, only to deliver a kickin' New Orleans rhythm that would not be lost on the Meters.
music.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?z=y&EAN=68381704528&ITM=1   (178 words)

  
 Manu Dibango - The "Soul Makossa" Man   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
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 Manu Dibango Tabs: 12 Tabs Total @ 911Tabs - Tabs Search Engine
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Among American audiences, Manu Dibango is best known for "Soul Makossa," a highly infectious blend of African music, soul/funk and jazz that became a major pop hit in the early 1970s
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 Shock Records - MANU DIBANGO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
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