Manu Dibango, the African jazz great whose deliriously catchy 'Soul Makossa' was sampled by Michael Jackson and dozen of hip-hop producers, has died at 86 from the coronavirus
‘s “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin'” From there, the chant would become a hip-hop staple, appearing in tracks likes Kanye West’s “Lost in the World,” Will Smith’s “Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It,” A Tribe Called Quest’s “Rhythm ” and Jay-Z’s “Face-Off.” Rihanna would also famously sample the track for her 2002 hit “Don’t Stop the Music.”
Dibango was prolific throughout his career, touring regularly and often releasing multiple albums in a single year. He was still recording as recently as 2017, when he teamed with one of his musical progeny, Mozambican jazz saxophonist Moreira Chonguiça, for the collaborative album,. Over the course of his career, Dibango also collaborated with an array of artists like Peter Gabriel, Herbie Hancock, Fela Kuti and Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
Dibango was a pivotal part of the wave that helped bring African music to the world. In a 1995 interview with, he spoke about watching the African scene’s old foothold in France disappear and become a global phenomenon as both the African diaspora spread and the continent began to shake off its colonial past.
“Now the African scene is no longer strictly Francophonic,” Dibango said. “The new ‘zero immigration’ policy makes it harder for the musicians to come to France to study and work. They go to London and New York, where the money is in any case. You can find African restaurants all over the United States now. What’s going to happen to the spirituality of African music remains to be seen, but it’s no longer France first. The artistic migration is going elsewhere.
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