Manu Chau ... Multicultural Musician


	Manu Chau ... Multicultural Musician
NonStatQuo
4-24-2008 4:21 PM
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I found this guy in my travels love the free track.
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/03acb881-06a3-43ad-a9a0-3e69b25ede07/633E56E2-C140-4D6E-B3AA-4F8B0762D75C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.manuchao.net/" href="http://www.manuchao.net/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.manuchao.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.manuchao.net/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.manuchao.net/img/9C662118-2DB0-4CE3-8D23-24BC161ED239" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Manu_Chao&oldid=207212372" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Manu_Chao&oldid=207212372" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Manu_Chao&oldid=207212372"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/en.wikipedia.org/img/039D4480-A28A-4A05-A514-3E10D90184AE" alt="Manu Chao performs live" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Manu_Chao&oldid=207212372"><P><B>Manu Chao</B> (born <B>José-Manuel Thomas Arthur Chao</B> on <A title="June 21" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_21">June 21</A>, <A title="1961" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961">1961</A> in <A title="Paris" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris">Paris</A>, <A title="France" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France">France</A>) is a <A title="France" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France">French</A>-born <A title="Singing" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singing">singer</A> and political <A title="Activism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activism">activist</A> of <A title="Spanish people" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_people">Spanish</A> origin. He sings mainly in <A title="French language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language">French</A>, <A title="Spanish language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language">Spanish</A> and <A title="English language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language">English</A> and occasionally in a number of other languages. Chao began his musical career with <A title="Hot Pants (French band)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Pants_%28French_band%29">Hot Pants</A>, a French band that combined several musical styles and languages. The musician then founded the interracial band <A title="Mano Negra" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mano_Negra">Mano Negra</A> with several friends in 1987, becoming a solo artist after it disbanded.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Manu_Chao&oldid=207212372">Manu Chao sings in the <A title="English language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language">English</A>, <A title="Spanish language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language">Spanish</A>, <A title="Galician language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galician_language">Galician</A>, <A title="Portuguese language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_language">Portuguese</A>, French, <A title="Arabic language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_language">Arabic</A> and <A title="Wolof language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolof_language">Wolof</A> languages, often mixing them in the same song. His music has many influences: <A title="Rock and roll" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_and_roll">rock</A>, French <I><A title="Chanson" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanson">chanson</A></I>, Iberoamerican <A title="Salsa (music)" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salsa_%28music%29">salsa</A>, <A title="Reggae" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggae">reggae</A>, <A title="Ska" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ska">ska</A>, and Algerian <A title="Raï" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%AF">raï</A>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Manu_Chao&oldid=207212372">Many of Chao's <A title="Lyrics" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyrics">lyrics</A> are about <A title="Love" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love">love</A>, living in <A title="Ghetto" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghetto">ghettos</A>, <A title="Immigration" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration">immigration</A>, and often carry a <A title="Left-wing politics" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_politics">left-wing</A> message. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Manu_Chao&oldid=207212372">Though Manu Chao is one of the world's best selling artists, he is less well-known in the English-speaking world.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Manu_Chao&oldid=207212372"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A rel="nofollow" title="http://www.manuchao.net/" class="external text" href="http://www.manuchao.net/">Official site</A></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Manu_Chao&oldid=207212372"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A rel="nofollow" title="http://www.myspace.com/manuchao" class="external text" href="http://www.myspace.com/manuchao">Manu Chao</A> at <A title="MySpace" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySpace">MySpace</A></LI></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/633E56E2-C140-4D6E-B3AA-4F8B0762D75C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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