An outstanding vibes and sax player known as "the lion of Cameroon", Manu
Dibango has had an incalculable influence on African music and its
popularisation in America and Europe. Amazingly versatile, his ability to play
numerous musical styles to a high standard made him a legend among his fellow
musicians, though he was most celebrated as an afrobeat innovator—fusing jazz,
funk and traditional Cameroonian music. His brilliant 1972 single “Soul Makossa”
is widely credited as inspiring the disco boom (makossa means "dance" in the
Cameroonian language Duala). Various artists, inclu...