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Travelling Man.(Manu Chao)

The New Yorker

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Toward the end of a live show, weary musicians often appeal to the audience with a stock phrase intended to invigorate the proceedings: "How is everyone feeling tonight?" "I can't hear you!" "Cleveland, make some noise!" Manu Chao, a wiry forty-six-year-old of Spanish extraction who grew up in Paris, used a different tactic when he played the first of two sold-out shows in Brooklyn's Prospect Park in June. He shouted out the names of countries, and people cheered, often in reverse proportion to the nation's population: "Uruguay!" Some whoops. "Costa Rica!" Roars. "Macedonia!" Total mayhem.

Few pop performers take the idea of being a global musician so literally. ...

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