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Manu Chao is a French Latin folk singer with French and Spanish (Basque/Galician) origin. Manu Chao was a well-known member of the Parisian alternative music scene, in bands such as Hot Pants and Los Carayos. In 1987, Chao, his brother Antoine Chao and their cousin Santiago Casariego founded the band Mano Negra. Mano Negra met with success in France first with the hit single Mala Vida, then toured South America. The band split in 1995. |
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News in english
about Manu Chao
(July / 2009)
Album: Amadou & Mariam, The Magic Couple (Wrasse) (Independent)
Date: 16 Jul 2009
It was their collaboration with Manu Chao on 2005's Dimanche ā Bamako that propelled Amadou & Mariam to star status outside the Francophone African diaspora.
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Amadou And Mariam, Roundhouse, London Date: 29 Jul 2009
Independent -
This is a strikingly, inherently visual and rock-infused show, turning what you might expect from a duo once bluntly dubbed "the blind couple from Mali" upside-down. Amadou and Mariam work with Manu Chao and Damon Albarn these days, of course, and have just supported Coldplay in the US, and Blur at Hyde Park. They have been ever-present at Albarn's culture-mashing, night-long Africa Express ...
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Amadou and Mariam: The Magic Couple Date: 29 Jul 2009
All About Jazz -
Amadou and Mariam The Magic Couple Wrasse Records 2009 For most people outside Mali, and maybe France, Amadou and Mariam came out of nowhere in 2005 with Dimanche a Bamako (Nonesuch). But the duo had released three other, Paris-recorded CDs before their Manu Chao-produced breakthrough, which were themselves preceded by a series of cassette-only albums recorded in Cote d'Ivoire. The excellent ...
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News in Brief: Manu Chao, Asthmatic Kitty, Pere Ubu, Fucking Awesome Fest Date: 30 Jul 2009
Pitchfork -
-- One-world genre-buster Manu Chao has produced La Colifata , an album created by patients in a psychiatric hospital in Buenos Aires. Chao has been working with the hospital's radio station, also called La Colifata, for five years.
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