Biography
Manu Chao was born on June 21, 1961, in Paris to Spanish parents. Growing up bilingual, As a teen he played in several punk rock bands before he formed Mano Negra and recorded their first single, "Mala Vida". Multilingual and decidedly multicultural, with an edge heavily influenced by the punk rock of the Clash, Mano Negra seemed comfortably at home in their music anywhere in the world until 1994. Chao then explored South and Central America, sp...Read more