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Pandemic stops music as top artistes bow out

Manu Dibango. [File]

Coronavirus has sent ripples across the global art, music and showbiz fraternity.

In a span of one week, the pandemic snuffed out the lives of Africa’s globally acclaimed artistes, including Cameroonian saxophonist Manu Dibango, 86, and prolific Congolese composer and singer, Aurlus Mabélé, aged 67.

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