Manu Dibango

saxophone, vibraphone · 1933–2020 · Douala

Born in Douala in 1933, Manu Dibango married in Brussels in 1957 and played in Joseph Kabasele's African Jazz, at the heart of the Congolese musical revolution. His "Soul Makossa" (1972), often cited as the most sampled African track, brought him a worldwide audience; he died of Covid-19 in Melun, near Paris, in 2020.

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Styles

• Afrobeat, makossa, highlife-jazz
• Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk

Landmark tracks

• Soul Makossa (1971)

Sources

• Source

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