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Manu Dibango is a Afrobeat and Jazz act. Their catalogue also touches World music. Their sound grew out of Eliades Ochoa, Fania All Stars, Fela Kuti, Herbie Hancock and Bernie Worrell. Those roots explain a lot about how Manu Dibango arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Ebo Taylor, The Souljazz Orchestra, Fela Kuti, Tony Allen and Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Yolanda Be Cool, Tabu Ley Rochereau, Coco Argentée, Angelique Kidjo and Michael Jackson, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 56 connections around Manu Dibango, reaching back through Eliades Ochoa and forward to Yolanda Be Cool. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Manu Dibango connections
Manu Dibango grew out of Eliades Ochoa, Fania All Stars, Fela Kuti and Herbie Hancock, shares an orbit with Ebo Taylor, The Souljazz Orchestra, Fela Kuti and Tony Allen, went on to shape Yolanda Be Cool, Tabu Ley Rochereau, Coco Argentée and Angelique Kidjo. 56 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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- Johnny Hammondartist
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