Latest Release
- NOV 17, 2023
- 4 Songs
- Cafe Mundo - An Electro World Experience · 1973
- The Very Best of Manu Dibango: Afro Soul Jazz from the Original Makossa Man · 1972
- Ramblin' Sax · 2013
- Midnight In Paris · 2010
- World Psychedelic Classics 3: Love's a Real Thing - The Funky Fuzzy Sounds of West Africa · 2005
- Plays Sidney Bechet: Hommage à la Nouvelle-Orléans (feat. Dany Doriz) · 2007
- Plays Sidney Bechet: Hommage à la Nouvelle-Orléans (feat. Dany Doriz) · 2007
- O Boso · 1972
- Putumayo Presents Afro - Cubano · 2002
- O Boso · 1972
- 2017
- 2015
- 2013
- 2008
- 2001
Artist Playlists
- The Cameroonian sax legend helped mold disco, funk, and hip-hop.
Singles & EPs
- 2023
- 1977
Live Albums
- 1991
- 1988
- 1981
- 2020
- 2011
- 2003
- 2002
Appears On
- Black M, Christophe Willem & Inna Modja
About Manu Dibango
Manu Dibango was Cameroon's, and perhaps Africa's, best-known jazz saxophonist. Also a pianist and vibraphonist, his versatile amalgam of funk, jazz, and various African traditions enabled him to collaborate with an impressive range of musicians during his lengthy career, from Fela Kuti to Sly & Robbie and Herbie Hancock. He was already well into his prolific run when he scored a bona fide international hit with 1972's "Soul Makossa," a song that resonated in popular music for decades and inspired songs by Kool & the Gang, Michael Jackson, and Rihanna. A globe-trotting musician, Dibango lived and worked across the world. His influential career continued into the early 2010s as he wrote, recorded, toured, and challenged himself creatively nearly up until his death in 2020.
- HOMETOWN
- Cameroon
- BORN
- December 12, 1933
- GENRE
- African