Welcome to my tributepage to
the unique and talented Manu Katché.

I'd like to start this page sitating his former employer; Peter Gabriel:
...Before that first night in the studio, I hadn't heard a note Manu played,
but he just sat down and blew me away. I remember him really getting into the music...eyes looking heavenward,
a big smile on his face. It was magic...
...He's a tremendously stylish individual. He makes the rest of us look like scarecrows.
Perhaps the other members of the band would resent that remark.
Well, certainly he makes me look like a scarecrow...

Manu Katché, born in the City of Light (Paris). The year was 1958.
Manu started his musical career playing piano when he was seven years old.
He stayed with that instrument for three years.
He also took dance-lessons during this time. Classical ballet! Though he preffered playing football or whatever....

His grandmother played classical violin, his grandfather accordion,
his mother did some opera before he was born and his father (beeing from the Ivory Coast) played drums.
(His father left when he was two years old.)
Manu felt that the drumming were just in him. Sort of a gift.
He started off drumming on boxes and stuff at the age of thirteen. Started studying drums at fifteen.
He studied both at a school of classical music outside Paris and at the classical conservatory in Paris.
Years of band-playing was soon to come!

Before joining the "Brightest Stars" on the U.S. of A.'s Heaven of Stars
he had played with the biggest name's in France.
After getting tired of different styles of works back home, he went overseas.

His first big thing to do in America was the Peter Gabriel gig. Kickstart so to speak.
This again lead to work with Sting, Joni Mitchell and others!

Manu's contribution-list is tremendous. For the full list, click here.

I bring you a shorter one:

Peter Gabriel     Secret World Live       
                  US
                  SO
Sting             Nothing like the sun
                  The soul cages
                  Brand new day
Jan Garbarek      I took up the runes
                  Visible world
                  Twelve moons
                  Ragas and sagas
Joni Mitchell     Chalk marks in a rainstorm
                  Misses
Tori Amos         Boys for Pele
Al DiMeola        Orange and blue
Dire Straits      On every street
Gipsy Kings       Tierra Gitana
                  Compas
Simple Minds      Street fighting years

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Manu Katché       Stick Around
                  It's about time
                  Quiet Passion

LINKS 2 RELATED MANU KATCHÉ-PAGES:

A much better site on M.K.....
His drumcompany (Yamaha).
Manu plays Zildjian too.
Lyrics by Manu a.o.

THIS PAGE IS MADE BY ANDERS DAMAAS!

Thanks to Modern Drummer for having interviews with him.

Another "Brand" called Manu...

Email: adamaas@hotmail.com