Manu Dibango: Last News

Will.i.am has teamed up with pioneering French world music producer James BKS on new track ‘Jungle Go Dumb’. Check it out below along with our interview with the pair.The track is taken from BKS’s latest album ‘Wolves Of Africa Part 1’, which also features contributions from his label boss Idris Elba, as well as Little Simz, Q-Tip, Royce 5’9 and James’s late father, the legendary Cameroonian saxophonist Manu Dibango.Having made his name as a hip-hop and pop producer in the US, placing tracks with P Diddy and Snoop Dogg and working closely with Ja Rule, James returned to his French homeland in 2012, only to learn from his mother that Dibango was his real biological father.Meeting Dibango for the first time shifted his musical perspective dramatically, and he began reinventing and modernising African culture on singles such as 2018’s ‘Kwele’, a collaboration with his father, and 2019’s ‘New Breed’.The will.i.am collaboration was the result of four years of James trying to forge links with the Black Eyed Peas lynchpin.

Mark Ronson took to Instagram on Friday (March 27) to pay tribute to legends who were taken too soon due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Cameroonian jazz musician Manu Dibango has died at the age of 86 from coronavirus.