Manu Dibango

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Sax-Player, composer, singer, pianist and arranger, Manu Dibango is Cameroon's musical superstar. He is arguably Africa’s best known jazz saxophonist, but he has also carried makossa to a world audience .
Beginning his musical career in the 1950s, he travelled the world learning his art. However, it was the release of the worldwide hit “Soul Makossa” which propelled him to the World’s attention
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”.

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