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Zé Manel

Zé Manel has been played on NTS shows including Floating Points, with S'Cudjo first played on 14 May 2018.

Singer and multi-instrumentalist, Zé Manel is the most famous and influential contemporary musician to emerge from the West African country of Guinea-Bissau. By the age of seven, Zé, playing drums and acoustic guitar, had become the main attraction of Super Mama Djombo band. During the 1970's, this seminal orchestra played a major role in the liberation struggle of this former Portuguese colony.

In 1982, Zé released his first solo album "Tustumunhos di Aonti" (Yesterday's Testimony), which sounded the alarm over the formation of a new repressive ruling…

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Bardade Dentro Di Bardade
Zé Manel, 2M G-B
Cobiana1982
Bardade Dentro Di Bardade
Zé Manel, 2M G-BCobiana1982
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S'Cudjo
Zé Manel, 2M G-B
Cobiana1982
S'Cudjo
Zé Manel, 2M G-BCobiana1982
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