A sweaty Sunday evening on the beach in Luanda in April last year, an incredibly swinging saxophone on stage...
Manu Dibango's concert under the Angolan starry skie came to mind when I heard of the news that the 75 year-old Cameroonian was taking on
Michael Jackson. At stake is a phrase out of a 'little nothing' of a song called
Soul Makossa, the B-track of a 1972 single. Jackson 'borrowed' the sentence 'Mama Ko, Mamassa, Mamakossa' for his 'Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'. Dibango was not amused, but settled the matter with Jackson out of court. Recently however Jackson produced a remix of his song ánd he gave another artist - Barbadian
Rihanna - permission to use the fragment. That to Dibango was the bloody limit. He is suing them both for plagiary.
Soul Makossa (Makossa means 'dance' in Duala) on YouTube
A sweaty Sunday evening on the beach in Luanda in April last year, an incredibly swinging saxophone on stage... Manu Dibango's concert under the Angolan starry skie came to mind when I heard of the news that the 75 year-old Cameroonian was taking on Michael Jackson. At stake is a phrase out of a 'little nothing' of a song called Soul Makossa, the B-track of a 1972 single. Jackson 'borrowed' the sentence 'Mama Ko, Mamassa, Mamakossa' for his 'Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'. Dibango was not amused, but settled the matter with Jackson out of court. Recently however Jackson produced a remix of his song ánd he gave another artist - Barbadian Rihanna - permission to use the fragment. That to Dibango was the bloody limit. He is suing them both for plagiary.
