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Chao, Manu
Singer, songwriter
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Manu Chao won critical respect and public adulation for his music that combines Latin and Third World rhythms with a decidedly leftist political viewpoint and has drawn numerous comparisons to the English punk band the Clash during the era of that band’s highly successful album Sandinista! In his music, such Caribbean forms of music as ska, reggae, calypso, and dub are blended with punk rock, Spanish, North African, and Tex-Mex musical influences and multilingual lyrics to create a style that Chao has labeled patchanka, a word adapted from a Mexican slang term that denotes a wild party. Chao honed his blend of the political and musical with the punk band Mano Negra for eight years in the 1980s and early 1990s. He proceeded to record as a solo artist and as leader of Radio Bemba Sound System; the words “radio bemba” are slang for “word-of-mouth.”
Born Oscar Tramor on June 26, 1961, in France, Chao originally spoke Spanish, the language spoken by his parent
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Manu Chao
Spanish musician (born 1961)
Musical artist
Manu Chao (Spanish pronunciation:[ˈmanuˈtʃao]; born José Manuel Tomás Arturo Chao Ortega on 21 June 1961) is a French-born Spanish musician. He sings in French, Spanish, English, Italian, Arabic, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese, Greek, and occasionally in other languages. Chao began his musical career in Paris, busking and playing with groups such as Hot Pants and Los Carayos, which combined a variety of languages and musical styles. With friends and his brother Antoine Chao, he founded the band Mano Negra in 1987, achieving considerable success, particularly in Europe. He became a solo artist after its breakup in 1995 and since then has toured regularly with his live band, Radio Bemba Sound System.
Early life
Chao's mother, Felisa Ortega, is from Bilbao, Basque Country, and his father, writer and journalist Ramón Chao, is from Vilalba, Galicia. They emigrated to Paris to avoid Francisco Franco's dictatorship—Manu's grandfather had been sentenced to death.[1] Shortly after Manu's birth, the C
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Manu Chao
Manu Chao is a French singer and activist of Spanish (Galician-Basque) origin. He sings mainly in Spanish, French, English and Portuguese although occasionally in a number of other languages as well. Chao began his musical career with Hot Pants, a French band that combined several musical styles and languages. He then founded the band Mano Negra with his brother Antoine and several friends in 1987. The band became famous in Europe and Latin America but split in 1995. Manu embarked on to a solo artist career after the separation and released the album "Clandestino" in 1998, who sold over 3 million copies and changed the path of his musical career. Clandestino was supposed to mix electronic music with traditional tracks and vocals but a computer bug crashed all the electronic tracks and revealed the real essence of the album.
How we met:
It was a rainy day in Barcelona along the waterfront as 10 or more musicians gathered under a large umbrella to jam. While shooting and recording we noticed a man standing just beyond the musicians. Within minutes, that man had pic
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