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Article: Go ask Manu Dibango
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 3, 1995
- Author:
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If a man nicknamed Fax gives you your showbusiness break
nowadays, the chances are he'll be an accountant or a marketing
executive. In 1957 the connotation was jazz, and Fax Clark, a Louis
Armstrong fan, ran a black night-club in Brussels, where his house
band needed a saxophonist. The 24-year-old Manu Dibango, in spite
of almost a decade's picaresque studenthood around the lyces and
colleges of northern France, was primarily that, and, introduced by
Cameroonian friends, he got the job.
The ensuing four decades of zig-zag progress, along with two
months' unemployment, have made him Africa's musical ambassador par
excellence. Africa 95, this year's ambitious UK African arts
jamboree, needs ...
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