{"id":2030,"date":"2020-03-24T09:35:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T09:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=2030"},"modified":"2020-03-24T09:39:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T09:39:02","slug":"2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=2030","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Cameroonian Musician, Manu Dibango dies of coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Legendary Afro jazz star ,Manu Dibango died on Tuesday after contracting the new coronavirus, his music publisher told AFP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 86-year-old Cameroonian, best known for the 1972 hit \u201cSoul Makossa\u201d, is one of the first worldwide stars to die as a result of COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe died early this morning in a hospital in the Paris region,\u201d his music publisher Thierry Durepaire said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A message on his official Facebook page confirmed that his death had come after he contracted COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHis funeral service will be held in strict privacy, and a tribute to his memory will be organized when possible,\u201d the message said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary Afro jazz star ,Manu Dibango died on Tuesday after contracting the new coronavirus, his music publisher told AFP. The 86-year-old Cameroonian, best known for the 1972 hit \u201cSoul Makossa\u201d, is one of the first worldwide stars to die as a result of COVID-19. \u201cHe died early this morning in a hospital in the Paris &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[235,234],"class_list":["post-2030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-dibango","tag-makosa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2030"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2036,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions\/2036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}