Manu Dibango
Tribute page — Manu Dibango's positive and verified news: concerts, outputs, distinctions and projects.
The positive and verified news of Manu Dibango: concerts, outputs, distinctions and projects — the writing of Festival TV only retains confirmed information, in a spirit of celebration.
2025-04 — "Dibango 82": a new concert from Marseille restored. On April 4, 2025, the label Wewantsounds released Dibango 82, a new concert recorded in December 1982 at the Théâtre La Criée de Marseille, in partnership with the INA and the label Soul Makossa. Remastered from the original bands, the album shows Manu Dibango at the top of his art, between funk, jazz and African rhythms, with titles like "Africa Boogie" and "Waka Juju".
2020 — Tributes from around the world for the father of "Soul Makossa". When he disappeared on 24 March 2020, the tributes flocked from all over the world to greet one of the fathers of modern African music. OkayAfrica, PAN M 360 and many media have devoted files to his work, recalling that "Soul Makossa" (1972) had made him the first number one African artist in the United States.