Lagos — The Makossa fever that gripped Nigeria last year is far from over, pushing Nigeria's indigenous music to the background. Last year, Paris based techno-soukous star, Awilo Longomba, evidently ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andrea Bossi is a New York-based contributing reporter covering music. Manu Dibango passed away today in France at the age of 86 ...

Manu Dibango, the acclaimed Cameroonian saxophonist whose 1972 hit, “Soul Makossa,” would later be sampled by Michael Jackson, Kanye West, and dozens of other musicians, died Tuesday due to ...

I was always deeply influenced by Afro-Rock music. This is because of the great artistic fingerprint of my first band, Kongas, in which I spent four years before starting my solo career with Love in C ...

As a style, makossa predated Dibango’s single. Born in Cameroon, it fused musical genres from the region and further afield. The liner notes of Pop Makossa explain “If makossa could be expressed as a ...

The 1972 track was a favourite at David Mancuso's Loft and sampled by the pop giants like Michael Jackson and Rihanna Saxophonist Manu Dibango, who died on March 25 of COVID-19, was an early champion ...

Having blazed so many trails, he seems content to enjoy their warm glow through the rear view mirror on the evidence of last night’s pleasant but slightly underwhelming performance. Though the ...

Afro-jazz giant Manu Dibango celebrated his 80th birthday with RFI on Thursday, appearing throughout the day on our French-language broadcasts. The French-based Cameroon-born musician, whose Soul ...

Nicknamed "Pappy Grove", Manu Dibango was a musical innovator whose work over six decades inspired some of the greatest artists of our time. The Cameroonian saxophonist, who died at 86 this week after ...

One of the pioneers of Afro-funk music, the saxophonist Manu Dibango, has died of COVID-19. He was 86 years old, and died in Paris. Internationally, he was best known for his 1972 song "Soul Makossa," ...

Released just days before the death of pioneering mandolin maestro U. Srinivas, Bombay Makossa assumes an added poignancy as one of his last recorded ventures in a career that began as a child prodigy ...