Afro-jazz great Manu Dibango dies after contracting coronavirus

Afro-jazz great Manu Dibango dies after contracting coronavirus
# 24 March 2020 14:49 (UTC +04:00)

Veteran Afro-jazz star Manu Dibango died on Tuesday after contracting the coronavirus, his music publisher said, APA reports citing France 24.

The 86-year-old Cameroonian, best known for the 1972 hit "Soul Makossa", is one of the first worldwide stars to die as a result of COVID-19.

"He died early this morning in a hospital in the Paris region," his music publisher Thierry Durepaire said.

Dibango arrived in Marseilles in 1949 as a teenager and was made Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 2010.

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