Video: Biko - Manu Dibango, Sinead O'Connor, Peter Gabriel, etc.

NICK DERISO: Dibango has a perfectly balanced feel for both the lithe American jazz form but also the murkier pleasures of traditional African music. What's almost criminal is that he couldn't elicit a second glance on your average U.S. sidewalk. That, despite the fact that Dibango, 60 at the time of this recording, scored his first international hit in 1972, the million-selling "Soul Makossa." "Wakafrika" kicked off, perhaps appropriately, with a nifty reworking of that cut, featuring the cryingly rapturous voice of Senegalise star Youssou N'Dour -- who many remember for his earlier turn on [...]