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Nono Roland Rakotondrainibe

Composer, singer and multi-instumentist music player, Nono (Roland Rakotondrainibe) plays sax, guitar and piano since he was a teenager. Born and raised in Madagascar, a country where music is everywhere and people do sing and play at any circumstance, Nono has been one of the country's pop stars in the 80/90s, surely the #1 among large cities' young people While enjoying this pop star status, Nono has never let apart his love, jazz music; he has carried on playing at local jazz clubs in Antananarivo (Madagascar) and later on in Lyon and Paris (France) which is his hometown nowadays. Mid-90s, Nono decided not performing nor touring anymore with his pop/rock band for focusing definitively on jazz by playing only in jazz clubs and also by being a full-time jazz professor at "Conservatoire de musique" of Lyon (the 2nd largest city in France) Beginning of 2014, Nono has decided to come back on stage by setting up a newly jazz group, #NonoJazzQuartet, with an ambition to bring to the world of jazz an unique colorful style: a music based on a blend of malagasy soul music, brazilian bossa swing and the groovy way of playing saxophone 'à la' Michael Brecker. #NonoJazzQuartet plays great jazz standards such as All blues, Blue in green, 500 miles high, Goodbye pork pie hat, etc..