Role Musician Name Manu Katche | Website www.manu-katche.com | |
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Born 27 October 1958 (age 66) ( 1958-10-27 ) Origin Saint-Maur-des-Fosses, France Occupation(s) Musician, songwriter, television host Spouse Sophie Duez (m. 1980–1990), Laurence Katche Children Rose Katche, Lucille Katche Albums Neighbourhood, Touchstone for Manu, Live in Concert, Playground, It\'s About Time Profiles | ||
Manu katch clubbing from the album manu katch live in concert act music 2014
Manu Katché (born 27 October 1958, in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés) is a French musician of Ivorian origin. He is a drummer and songwriter.
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- Manu katch clubbing from the album manu katch live in concert act music 2014
- Manu katch drum solo from the album manu katch live in concert act music 2014
- Session musician
- With Preface
- Solo
- As leader
- As sideman
- Songs
- References

Manu katch drum solo from the album manu katch live in concert act music 2014
Session musician

He became known by some in the music world in the mid-1980s mostly thanks to the success of Peter Gabriel's 1986 album So and his subsequent work with Sting on the albums …Nothing Like the Sun and The Soul Cages. Since then he has 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, Mango, Manu Chao, Loreena McKennitt, Youssou N'Dour, Robbie Robertson, Joan Armatrading, Joe Satriani, Tori Amos, Richard Wright, Kyle Eastwood, the Christians, Ryuichi Sakamoto and the aforementioned Peter Gabriel and Sting, with whom he has also toured extensively. Manu has also worked with Zlatan Stipišić Gibonni, a Croatian singer, on his albums Mirakul (2001) and Unca Fibre (2006), and has toured with Gibonni supporting the two albums.
He played drums on all tracks except one on Tracy Chapman's 1992 release Matters of the Heart.
With Preface
From 1985 to 1988 he was in the band Preface, with guitar player Kamil Rustam.
Solo
In 1992, Katché released his first solo 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, which features Jan Garbarek on saxophone, Tomasz Stanko on trumpet, Marcin Wasilewski on piano and Slawomir Kurkiewicz on double bass. His second ECM album, Playground was released in September 2007. In March 2010, Katché released Third Round, again 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 Idol series. He was the most feared of them for his wit and his severe judgment about the groove and the rhythm of the singing contestants.
Since January 2008, Katché has hosted the monthly program One Shot Not on Arte.

In 2010 Katché composed the instrumental music for the six themed lands of the Belgian theme park Bellewaerde. An album, with the twelve compositions for the park, including music for the Mexican, western, Indian and Canadian areas, was sold in souvenir shops at the park.

In August 2011 the album Rock the Tabla was released, featuring Manu Katché, Billy Cobham, A.R. Rahman, Hossam Ramzy and Omar Faruk Tekbilek.
As leader
As sideman
With Jeff Beck
With Tracy Chapman
With Dire Straits
With Peter Gabriel
With Jan Garbarek
With Herbie Hancock
With Nigel Kennedy
With Tony Levin
With Loreena McKennitt
With Joni Mitchell
With Joe Satriani
With Sting
With Louis Bertignac
With Richard Wright
With Robbie Robertson
With Tori Amos
Songs
Song for HerPlayground · 2007
UnstaticUnstatic · 2016
Keep On Trippin'Third Round · 2010