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• Name: Manu Chao
• Genre: world
• Location: Paris, France
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  Manu Chao is a French Latin folk singer of Galician origin.
  
  Manu Chao was a well-known member of the Parisian alternative music scene, in bands such as Hot Pants and Los Carayos. In 1987, Chao, his brother Antoine Chao and their cousin Santiago Casariego founded the band Mano Negra. Mano Negra met with success in France first with the hit single Mala Vida, then toured South America. The band split in 1995.
  
  He sings in French, Spanish, Arabic, Galician, Portuguese, English, Italian, and Wolof, often mixing them in the same song. He is one of the world's largest selling artists, but is less known in the English-speaking world.
  
  His music has many influences: rock, French chanson, Spanish-American salsa, reggae, ska and Algerian rai. These influences were obtained from immigrants in France, his Iberian relations, and foremost his travels in Mesoamerica as a wandering nomad following the disbanding of Mano Negra. Many of Chao's lyrics are about love, lifestyles in different parts of the world, and immigration, which is hopeful for the future and at the same time dramatic.
  
  Manu Chao's music reaches out to the unconventional, follows no logical textual sense but in its messy construction he makes a deeper understanding than being literal. Because he blends with comuners, the people of the streets, the provinces, the marginated, the forgotten, the uncounted for he gets a chance to speak about the fragility of the human kind. His music is about common grounds and understanding that above all of the cultural diversity there is a similarity among all of us.
  
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