Manu Dibango

Manu Dibango

Nascimento : 1933-12-12, Douala, Cameroon

Morte : 2020-03-24

História

Emmanuel N'Djoké "Manu" Dibango (12 December 1933 – 24 March 2020) was a Cameroonian musician and songwriter who played saxophone and vibraphone. He developed a musical style fusing jazz, funk, and traditional Cameroonian music. His father was a member of the Yabassi ethnic group, while his mother was a Duala. He was best known for his 1972 single "Soul Makossa". He died from COVID-19 on 24 March 2020. Emmanuel "Manu" Dibango was born in Douala, Cameroon in 1933. His father, Michel Manfred N'Djoké Dibango, was a civil servant. Son of a farmer, he met his wife travelling by pirogue to her residence, Douala. Emmanuel's mother was a fashion designer, running her own small business. Both her ethnic group, the Douala, and his, the Yabassi, viewed this union of different ethnic groups with some disdain. Dibango had only a stepbrother from his father's previous marriage, who was four years older than him. In Cameroon, one's ethnicity is dictated by one's father, though Dibango wrote in his autobiography, Three Kilos of Coffee, that he had "never been able to identify completely with either of [his] parents". Dibango's uncle was the leader of his extended family. Upon his death, Dibango's father refused to take over, as he never fully initiated his son into the Yabassi's customs. Throughout his childhood, Dibango slowly forgot the Yabassi language in favour of the Douala. However, his family did live in the Yabassi encampment on the Yabassi plateau, close to the Wouri River in central Douala. While a child, Dibango attended Protestant church every night for religious education, or nkouaida. He enjoyed studying music there, and reportedly was a fast learner. In 1941, after being educated at his village school, Dibango was accepted into a colonial school, near his home, where he learned French. He admired the teacher, whom he described as "an extraordinary draftsman and painter". In 1944, French president Charles de Gaulle chose this school to perform the welcoming ceremonies upon his arrival in Cameroon. In 1949, at age 15, Dibango was sent to college in Saint-Calais, France. After that he attended the lycée de Chartres where he learned the piano. He was a member of the seminal Congolese rumba group African Jazz and has collaborated with many other musicians, including Fania All Stars, Fela Kuti, Herbie Hancock, Bill Laswell, Bernie Worrell, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, King Sunny Adé, Don Cherry, and Sly and Robbie. He achieved a considerable following in the UK with a disco hit called "Big Blow", originally released in 1976 and re-mixed as a 12″ single in 1978 on Island Records. In 1998, he recorded the album CubAfrica with Cuban artist Eliades Ochoa. At the 16th Annual Grammy Awards in 1974, he was nominated in the categories Best R&B Instrumental Performance and Best Instrumental Composition for "Soul Makossa". The lyrics of the song "Soul Makossa" on the record of the same name contain the word "makossa", which refers to a style of Cameroonian urban music and means "(I) dance" in Dibango's native tongue, the Cameroonian language Duala. The song has influenced popular music hits, including Kool and the Gang's "Jungle Boogie". ... Source: Article "Manu Dibango" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Perfil

Manu Dibango

Filmes

Soul Makossa Manu Dibango jazz Open Stuttgart - 1995
sax/vocals
The Rumba Kings
Self - Musician
Nos anos 50, quando a futura República Democrática do Congo ainda era uma colônia belga, uma geração inteira de músicos fundiu as músicas tradicionais africanas com a música afro-cubana para criar a eletrizante rumba congolesa, um estilo que conquistou todo o continente graças a um ritmo contagiante, sons de guitarra cativantes e vocais suaves.
Africa Rising
Self - Musician (archive footage)
How African artists have spread African culture all over the world, especially music, since the harsh years of decolonization, trying to offer a nicer portrait of this amazing continent, historically known for tragic subjects, such as slavery, famine, war and political chaos.
Manu Dibango fête ses 80 ans à l'Olympia de Paris
O Poder do Soul
Himself
Soul Power is a 2008 documentary film about the Zaire 74 music festival in Kinshasa which accompanied the Rumble in the Jungle heavyweight boxing championship match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in October 1974. The film was made from archival footage; other footage shot at the time focusing on the fight was edited to form the film When We Were Kings.
Kiriku – Os Animais Selvagens
Original Music Composer
No filme Kiriku 2 – Os Animais Selvagens, O avô de Kiriku (Pierre-Ndoffé Sarr) conta as desventuras do garoto, cuja altura não alcança nem o joelho de uma pessoa normal. Entre elas o avô conta como Kiriku aprendeu a ser jardineiro, detetive, artesão, doutor, comerciante e viajante, percorrendo os diversos recantos da África.
On dirait Nino Ferrer
Self
Nino Ferrer has had several lives: hits that made him famous; a dark but artistically fruitful period; a hidden life -of his own making- breaking away from showbiz. All these facets are concentrated in a brilliant, complex, skinned character. "It looks like Nino Ferrer" is a film rich in international archives (TSR, RTSI, Rai...), rare documents (Super 8 films of the Ferrer family) and even unpublished films (Nino Ferrer as an actor in an advertisement for Italian cheese). The film is also punctuated by the memories of famous musicians such as Manu Dibango as well as by the singer's successes and his live performances (L'Olympia, L'Arche de Noé).
Kounandi
Music
A dwarf born into an intolerant village meets a farmer who teaches her about love, friendship and sacrifice.
11'09''01 September 11
Original Music Composer
Filmmakers from all over the world provide short films – each of which is eleven minutes, nine seconds, and one frame of film in length – that offer differing perspectives on the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Nha fala
Original Music Composer
Antes de partir para a Europa para estudar, Vita, uma jovem africana, promete à sua mãe que jamais cantará, pois uma maldição que se abate sobre a sua família determina que qualquer mulher que ouse cantar, morrerá amaldiçoada. Em Paris Vita conhece Pierre, um jovem e talentoso músico por quem se apaixona. Transbordando de alegria, Vita liberta-se finalmente e canta, deixando-se convencer por Pierre a gravar um disco que se torna um imediato sucesso de vendas. Temendo que a mãe descubra que quebrou a promessa, Vita decide voltar a casa... para morrer! Com a ajuda de Pierre e de Yano, Vita encena a sua própria morte e ressurreição, para mostrar à família e amigos que tudo é possível se tiverem a coragem de ousar.
Black Dju
This standard slice-of-life drama is about Dju Dibonga (Richard Courcet), a young man who leaves his home on Cabo Verde, an island of Portuguese dependency off the coast of Africa, to go to Luxembourg and search for his father. Far from his home village and unfamiliar with the large city, the young black man forms an unlikely friendship with a down-and-out white policeman whose only consolation in life is found at the bottom of a bottle. Their developing companionship forms the main focus of this movie directed by Pol Cruchten.
Black Light
Music
When a man's best friend is shot in cold blood by two corrupt policemen, he must track down the only eyewitnesses, who have deported to Mali.
Changa Changa, rythmes en noirs et blancs
Himself
A rare documentary made in Brussels in the early nineties collecting witnesses on how local and Congolese musicians enriched each other including internationally known stars such as Manu Dibango, Toots Tielemans, Vaya Con Dios, Phillippe Catherine, Victor Laszlo, Zap Mama...
Forty Deuce
Original Music Composer
A young hustler tries to get drug money by selling a boy to a middle-aged man; his plans are disrupted when the kid dies.
Ceddo
Original Music Composer
Este filme documenta através de uma personagem feminina as incursões colonizadoras do Islão e da Europa na sociedade africana. Ceddo, talvez o filme mais ousado de toda a filmografia de Sembene, retrata a luta pela resistência da cultura e das tradições africanas.
Countdown at Kusini
Music
An American musician working in Nigeria becomes involved with a patriot hunted by a mercenary in Africa.
The Tam Tams Are Silent
Original Music Composer
Abraham is a young sculptor who does not quite understand the changing world in which he lives. During a visit to the village, he falls for the youngest wife of his uncle. They form a relationship but are discovered and Abraham flees to the city.