With its easy melody and universal rhythm Me Llaman Calle walks proudly in the shadow of Bob Marley, the last guy who made world music this disarmingly simple.Manu Chao was featured on the album "True Love" by Toots and the Maytals, which won the Grammy Award in 2004 for Best Reggae Album, and showcased many notable musicians including Willie Nelson, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Trey Anastasio, Gwen Stefani / No Doubt, Ben Harper, Bonnie Raitt, The Roots, Ryan Adams, Keith Richards, Toots Hibbert, Paul Douglas, Jackie Jackson, Ken Boothe, and The Skatalites. His song "La Vida Tómbola" was featured in the documentary film "Maradona" by Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica. The song "La Trampa", recorded with Tonino Carotone for the compilation album "Fuerza!" was used as the theme song for the short-lived improvisational comedy "Drew Carey's Green Screen Show". The songs "Bongo Bong" and "Je ne t'aime plus", which appear back-to-back on "Clandestino", were covered by British singers Robbie Williams and Lily Allen, who recorded them as a single track, "Bongo Bong and Je Ne T'aime Plus" and released it as a single from the album "Rudebox". Manu Chao sings in Spanish, French, English, Portuguese, Galician, Arabic and Wolof, often mixing several languages in the same song. His music has many influences, such as punk, rock, French "chanson", Iberoamerican salsa, reggae, ska, and Algerian raï. These influences were obtained from immigrants in France, his Iberian connections, and foremost his travels in Mesoamerica as a nomad following the disbanding of Mano Negra. While Mano Negra called their style "patchanka" (literally "patchwork"), Manu Chao speaks of "música mestiza" (), a musical style which may also incorporate elements of rap, flamenco, Afro-Cuban music, samba and cumbia. In many of his pieces he layers lyrics, music, and sound recordings over each other. In the short documentary film "Infinita tristeza" (essentially a video travelogue of Chao's 2001 tour of South America), included within the bonus section of his 2002 live DVD release "Babylonia en Guagua", Chao explained that his only recording tool is a small IBM (later Lenovo) ThinkPad laptop computer, which he carries with him wherever he goes; he has occasionally used conventional recording studios, such as Europa Sonor in Paris, to overdub instruments such as drums, electric guitars and brass, but the vast majority of his material (including all sorts of spoken-word samples from radio stations, TV, films, old vinyl records and, on "", announcements from the Madrid Metro) has been recorded by Chao himself exclusively on his laptop.