He was the great singer of rhythm’n’blues of France. In sixties, while France was connected to pop new wave (les yéyés), Nino Ferrer transposes the spirit of the black-american music, helped by the Cameroonian Manu Dibango, his band director. Check this song, “I Got A Woman”…
you might be interested in this recent italian cover of Mizra, Nino Ferrer 1965:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3TYlV9WEnA