With nearly 54 billion CFA revenues in 2014, the famous creator of Soul Makossa, Manu Dibango emerged as the best paid musician in the world for the current year.

At 80 years, it seemed he was nearing his retirement as his artistic career was virtually at a standstill. But by dint of insight and determination he managed to reverse this trend to dominate the classification and emerged in 2014 as best-paid musician with estimated revenues of nearly EUR 82 million, approximately 54 billion CFA.

Yet, this does not seem to have made him complacent, even if everyone agrees that his spectacular return to the Summit was fuelled by "the world's best-paid musicians, according to the American economic magazine.