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The guitarist who made Herbie go bananas

As a teenager Lionel Loueke used to breakdance to his favourite hip-hop tune, Cantaloupe Island. He wasn�t to know that one day he tour the world with the man who wrote it, Herbie Hancock.

As a teenager Lionel Loueke used to breakdance to his favourite hip-hop tune, Cantaloupe Island. He wasn't to know then that this was a re-worked jazz classic any more than he would expect to one day tour the world with the man who wrote it, Herbie Hancock.