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Biography
peacock|date=June 2011BLP sources|date=June 2011Infobox musical artist | name = Manu Katché| image = Manu Katche by Stuart Mentiply.jpg| image_size =| caption =| background = solo_singer| birth_name =| alias =| origin = Saint-Maur-des-Fossés , France | birth_date = Birth date and age|1958|10|27|df=y| Died| instrument = Drum kit|Drums , percussion ist| genre = Jazz | occupation = Musician , songwriter , television host | years_active =| label =| associated_acts = Peter Gabriel , Sting (musician)|Sting | website = URL| http://www.manu-katche.com/| notable_instruments = Manu Katché (27 October 1958, Saint-Maur-des-Fossés ) is a French musician of Côte d'Ivoire|Ivorian origin. He is a drummer and songwriter.
Career
;Session musician He became known by some in the music world in the mid-1980s mostly thanks to the huge success of Peter Gabriel 's 1986 album So (album)|So and his subsequent work with Sting (musician)|Sting on the albums …Nothing Like the Sun and The Soul Cages . Since then he has been prominently featured in the pop, rock and world music scenes playing with numerous bands and artists, including Afro Celt Sound System , Jeff Beck , Al Di Meola , Tears For Fears , Eurythmics , Simple Minds , Dire Straits , Jan Garbarek , Manu Chao , Loreena McKennitt , Youssou N'Dour , Robbie Robertson , Joan Armatrading , Joe Satriani , Tori Amos , Richard Wright (musician)|Richard Wright , Kyle Eastwood , Ryuichi Sakamoto and the aforementioned Peter Gabriel and Sting, with whom he has also toured extensively. Manu has also worked with Zlatan Stipišic Gibonni , a popular Croatian singer, on his albums "Mirakul" (2001) and "Unca Fibre" (2006), he has also toured with Gibonni supporting the two albums. He also played drums on all tracks except one on Tracy Chapman's 1992 release "Matters of the Heart".
;Band Preface Main|Preface (band)From 1985 to 1988 Manu Katche formed the band Preface (band)|Preface , with guitar player Kamil Rustam .
;Solo career In 1992, Katche released his first solo Album, '' It's About Time (Manu Katché album)|It's About Time , largely in the Rock genre. His subsequent solo releases have all been jazz. He released his second solo album on September 12, 2005 entitled Neighbourhood (album)|Neighbourhood , which has contribution from such talents as the aforementioned Jan Garbarek on saxophone , Tomasz Stanko on trumpet, Marcin Wasilewski (musician)|Marcin Wasilewski on piano and Slawomir Kurkiewicz on double bass . His second ECM release, Playground was released in September 2007 (see below). In March 2010, Katche released Third Round, 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 TV-show " Nouvelle Star ", the French version of American Idol . He was the most feared of them for his wit and his severe judgement about the groove and the rhythm of the singing contestants.
Since January 2008, Katché hosts the monthly program http://www.arte.tv/osn One Shot Not on Arte .
In August 2011 the album "Rocka the TablA" was released, featuring Manu Katché, Billy Cobham , A.R. Rahman, Hossam Ramzy & Omar Faruk Tekbilek. http://www.rockthetabla.com Rock The Tabla website
Discography
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As leader http://www.manu-katche.com/discographie.htm
'' It's About Time (Manu Katché album)|It's About Time (1992)
http://www.home.zonnet.nl/j.chong/index.html An information page
http://trovar.com/ECM/ECM.php? artist=katch Manu Katché on ECM Records
Joe Satriani
Preface (band)
Jean Yves d'Angelo
Discography
Studio Album s: http:/ / www.bide-et-musique.com/ song/ 982.html Palace Hotel
soundtrack s: http:/ / www.imdb.com/ title/ tt0094751/ Black Mic Mac 2
Nouvelle Star Persondata | NAME =Katche, Manu | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH =27 October 1958 | PLACE OF BIRTH = | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Katche, Manu Category:1957 births Category:Living people Category:People from Saint-Maur-des-Fossés Category:Jazz drummers Category:French drummers Category:French songwriters Category:French musicians Category:Idol series judges Category:People of Ivorian descent Category:French people of Ivorian descent
