Jean-Paul 'Bluey' Maunick
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Mauritius
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) is a British
United Kingdom
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guitarist
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, bandleader
Bandleader
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, composer
Composer
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and record producer
Record producer
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. He has led the British
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acid jazz
Acid jazz
Acid jazz is a musical genre that combines elements of jazz, funk and hip-hop, particularly looped beats. It developed in the UK over the 1980s and 1990s and could be seen as tacking the sound of jazz-funk onto electronic dance: jazz-funk musicians such as Roy Ayers, Donald Byrd and Grant Green are...
band
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Incognito
Incognito (band)
Incognito is a British band, as well as one of the members of the United Kingdom's acid jazz movement. Their debut album, Jazz Funk, was released in 1981, with thirteen more albums following, the last of which, Transatlantic RPM, was released in 2010....
since its formation in 1979. With Incognito, he has released fourteen studio albums as well as a number of live albums, remix albums and compilation albums. Prior to forming Incognito, Bluey was a founder member of the group Light of the World.
His record production credits include artists such as Paul Weller, George Benson
George Benson
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, Maxi Priest
Maxi Priest
Max Alfred "Maxi" Priest is a British reggae vocalist of Jamaican descent. He is best known for singing reggae music with a R&B influence, otherwise known as reggae fusion, and became one of the first international successes who regularly dabbled in the genre as well as being one of the most...
and Terry Callier
Terry Callier
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, and has also collaborated with Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder
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.
Personal life
He is the son of the Mauritian poetPoet
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Edouard Maunick
Edouard Maunick
Edouard Joseph Marc Maunick is a Mauritian, African poet, critic, and translator.Maunick is a métis or mulatto, and as such was the subject of discrimination from both blacks and whites. He worked briefly as a librarian in Port-Louis before going to Paris in 1960, where he wrote, lectured, and...
and Armande Mallet. He was born in Mauritius, and moved to the United Kingdom when he was nine years old.