Marc Minelli

b. France. Playing electric guitar and performing in rock groupings within the 80s, Minelli was initially a enthusiast of 60s United kingdom bands like the Beatles as well as the Moving Rocks. He was generally open to various other musical forms and he noticed and respected Fela Kuti and Ruler Sunny Ade in Paris in the first 80s. It had been not before past due 90s that he begun to pay attention significantly to jazz. However, his first affects were not music artists of his very own generation but had been John Coltrane, Mls Davis and Charles Mingus. In Morocco he performed electric guitar with Gnawas performers. Uninhibited by genre limitations, he was hence available to the encouragement of Paris-based producer-manager, Marc Antoine Moreau, to think about globe music. He was presented to Malian vocalist Mamani Keita, a previous backing vocalist for Salif Keita. Minelli utilized tapes that Keita acquired recorded using a Malian guitarist because the basis for a few original compositions inside a jazz design. The effect, 2002’s Electro Bamako, captivated a whole lot of favourable comment.