"Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" by Michael Jackson - as well as Rihanna's "Don't Stop the Music" and more - salute a song credited as a MAJOR influence on Disco (one of the first "Disco records", as a matter of fact) as well as Funk and R&B tunes during the 1970s and 80s. It's Manu Dibango's "Soul Makossa," released in 1972. Since I talked about it, here it is!
I wanted to be in radio since I was four - and four decades later I still haven't grown out of it...Full Bio