# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/manu-dibango
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:12:30.293Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/manu-dibango"
name: "Manu Dibango"
slug: "manu-dibango"
description: "Emmanuel N'Djoké \"Manu\" Dibango was a Cameroonian musician and songwriter who played saxophone and vibraphone. He developed a musical style fusing jazz, funk, and traditional Cameroonian music. His father was a member of the Yabassi ethnic group, while his mother was a Duala. He was best known for his 1972 single \"Soul Makossa\". The song has been referred to as the most sampled African song in addition Dibango, himself, as the most sampled African musician in history. He died from COVID-19 on 24 March 2020."
tagline: "Cameroonian musician and songwriter, recording artist (1933–2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LesEscales2019ManuDibango_03_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1933-12-12"
deathDate: "2020-03-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             15
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  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 22300
platforms:
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    handle:    "ManuDibangoOfficiel"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump