Manu Dibango

Dibango is Cameroon’s, as well as perhaps Africa’s, best-known jazz saxophonist. Beginning in the 1950s, he became a globe-trotting musician, living and carrying out in France, Belgium, Jamaica, Zaire, and Cote d’Ivoire, in addition to in Cameroon. In 1960, Dibango was among the founding users from the Zairean music group African Jazz, with whom he spent five years. Globe attention found Dibango using the launch in 1972 of Spirit Makossa, a function that actually experienced precious little from the makossa sound inside it, and obtained later strikes with Seventies and Ibida. Dibango’s result continues to be prodigious and multi-faceted. He spent some time working with music artists as varied as Fela Kuti, Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare, Don Cherry, as well as the Fania All-Stars. Not only is it among the leading jazz saxophonists of his era, Dibango in addition has run nightclubs, aimed orchestras, and began among the 1st African musical publications. A later launch, Polysonik — offering British rapper MC Mello, Cameroonian vocalist Charlotte M’Bango leading a choral section, and sampled pygmy flutes — demonstrates Dibango is carrying on to flourish and increase in challenging fresh directions.