Manu Katché

Manu Katché born 27 October 1958 is a French drummer and songwriter of Ivorian descent He has worked extensively as a session musician notably with Sting and Peter Gabriel and his solo albums as a bandleader are largely in the jazz fusion style Katché was born on 27 October 1958 in SaintMaurdesFossés in the southeastern suburbs of Paris France He performed on several successful albums in the mid1980s such as Peter Gabriels 1986 album So and Stings Nothing Like the Sun 1987 and The Soul Cages 1991 Since then he has been featured in the pop rock and world music scenes playing with numerous artists and bands including Afro Celt Sound System Jeff Beck Al Di Meola Tears for Fears Eurythmics Simple Minds Dire Straits Laurent Voulzy Jeanne Mas Joni Mitchell Mike Lindup Jan Garbarek Claudio Baglioni Mango Manu Chao Loreena McKennitt Youssou NDour Robbie Robertson Joan Armatrading Joe Satriani Tori Amos Richard Wright Kyle Eastwood the Christians Ryuichi Sakamoto Tracy Chapman Dominic Miller and the aforementioned Peter Gabriel and Sting with whom he has also toured extensively Manu has also worked with Zlatan Stipiši? Gibonni a Croatian singer on his albums Mirakul 2001 and Unca Fibre 2006 and has toured with Gibonni supporting the two albums From 1985 to 1988 he was in the band Preface with guitar player Kamil Rustam and keyboardist JeanYves DAngelo In 1991 Katché released his first solo album Its About Time largely in the rock genre with guest musicians like Daniel Lanois David Rhodes Peter Gabriel David Sancious Branford Marsalis and Sting His subsequent solo releases have all been jazz He released his second solo album on 12 September 2005 entitled Neighbourhood which features Jan Garbarek on saxophone Tomasz Sta?ko on trumpet Marcin Wasilewski on piano and Slawomir Kurkiewicz on double bass His second ECM album Playground was released in September 2007 In March 2010 Katché released Third Round again on ECM From 2003 to 2007 along with producer Dove Attia composer André Manoukian and singer Marianne James he was one of the four judges in the TVshow Nouvelle Star the French version of the Idol series He was the most feared judge for his wit and his severe judgment about the groove rhythm and tempo of the singing contestants Since January 2008 Katché has hosted the monthly program One Shot Not on Arte In 2010 Katché composed the instrumental music for the six themed lands of the Belgian theme park Bellewaerde An album with the twelve compositions for the park including music for the Mexican western Indian and Canadian areas was sold in souvenir shops at the park In August 2011 the album Rock the Tabla was released featuring Manu Katché Billy Cobham AR Rahman Hossam Ramzy and Omar Faruk Tekbilek Source Article Manu Katché from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30