lost in the grand Babylon.” The song is not just autobiographical, but is also about the hypocrisy of Western countries who try to ban immigrant workers while at the same time benefitting from their ...

Most mainstream music listeners in the U.S. know Manu Chao as the artist behind 1999’s catchy novelty hit ”Bongo Bong”, if at all. In much of the rest of the world, however, the Barcelona-based singer ...

Though he is a musician who strives to keep it real, Manu Chao often seems to be a fictional character himself. A sort of musical Peter Pan, he is the quintessential star for a globalized world — one ...

Manu Chao, known for his gift for blending genres and languages into infectious songs, is back 17 years after his hit song "Me Gustas Tu" with a fresh single, "Tu Te Vas," featuring Laeti, from his ...

And suddenly there he stood: Leprechaun in his regulation Sandinista green shirt and hat bent down low, 45 kilos soaking wet, materialized out of the air as if a Mayan alux (ah-louche) – sprite, ...

The legendary French-Spanish performer and songwriter Manu Chao releases 'La Radiolina' - his first new studio album in six years - on Monday 3rd September 2007. The hotly anticipated new album, ...

This week on Alt.Latino, Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras talk about an exciting new album from Manu Chao on the way — his first in 17 years — and their favorite recent songs from artists like the ...

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It only makes sense that a singer who, in the course of one song, might switch from Spanish to English to French to Portuguese to Arabic and back to Spanish would eventually invent a word. That's ...

Comparing Manu Chao’s current quartet to the Clash might constitute punk rock heresy to the mohawk set, but a trawl through the Chronicle archives reveals the comparison time and again (and again) ...

It’s been over 20 years since the French-Spanish luminary, Manu Chao, first released his multilingual, landmark debut, Clandestino. A prescient meditation on the neither-here-nor-there, limbo state of ...

Four songs into La Radiolina, an onslaught of beefy, staccato guitar chords chop like butcher knives into a mix of vertigo-inducing electronics and air-raid sirens. Amid the chaos, a tiny voice ...