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Dibango – best understood for his 1972 struck Soul Makossa – is one of the first worldwide stars to die from Covid-19
The 86- year-old fused jazz and funk music with conventional sounds from his house nation, Cameroon.
The Cameroonian artist filed a claim in 2009 stating Michael Jackson had taken a hook from his tune, Soul Makossa, for two tracks on the world’s best-selling album, Thriller.
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” It is with deep unhappiness that we announce you the loss of Manu Dibango, our Papy Groove,” a declaration on his official Facebook page read.
His funeral service will occur in “stringent privacy”, the statement read, asking instead for individuals to send acknowledgements by email and adding that a homage will be set up “when possible”.
Top African artists Angelique Kidjo and Youssou Ndour have led the tributes.
‘ Giant of African music’
On Twitter, Kidjo shared a video, tape-recorded two months earlier, of her rehearsing the end of Soul Makossa with Dibango.
” You’re the initial giant of African music and a gorgeous human being,” the Beninois performer wrote.
Both Ndour and Kidjo, along with other stars such as Salif Keita, Papa Wemba and King Sunny Ade, worked on Dibango’s 1994 album Wakafrika.
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Manu Dibango, seen here in 1970, drew on a vast array of musical impacts.
‘ Raised in the Hallelujah’
He grew up in a religious Protestant household, the AFP news firm reports, and his first musical impacts came from the church.
” I play various kinds of music prior to playing my own.
” As you are African they anticipate you constantly to play African.
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Dibango failed his high school exams after being distracted by music.
He was sent out to high school in France, which is where he found out to play the saxophone.
The first tune he carried out, in front of fellow trainees, was When the Saints Go Marching In, he informed the BBC.
To the dissatisfaction of his daddy, Dibango failed his high school exams and used up music performing in nightclubs in Belgium instead, AFP reports.
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