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to represent Mali internationally. It was during this trip that he bought his first guitar, and it was also the first time that he heard the music that was being produced by
African Americans in the United States during the 1960s, of which Touré instantly became a fan. He was particularly fond of the
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in 1940. He was the tenth son of his mother but the only one to survive past infancy. "The name I was given was Ali
Ibrahim, but it's a custom in Africa to give a child a strange nickname if you have had other children who have died", Touré was quoted as saying in a biography on his record label,
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It was this that grasped the attention of Anne Hunt of 'World
Circuit Records'. In the mid-1980s, Hunt travelled to Mali to track down Ali Farka Touré, she eventually found him by broadcasting a message on Radio Mali seeking information about his whereabouts. World Circuit records brought him to
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Documenta 14 in Kassel in 2017, Igo Diarra and La Medina paid tribute to the life and artistic work of Ali Farka Touré with the contribution "Studio Ali Farka Touré - Proud and Well". Photographs, record covers, objects and his music were presented. The program also included a workshop and a
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and eventually ended up releasing a series of albums simply titled ‘Ali Farka Touré’ in the late 70s and early 80s. in 1986 Touré captured the attention of the
British market when tracks from one of his albums referred to as ‘the red album’ was played on British radio.
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looking for albums that were difficult to find in the UK. He recalls how he purchased the album at random amongst a pile of others as the album cover had stood out to him. Upon listening to the album after he had returned home to North
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Musicians playing in his style played as the Ali Farka Touré Allstars at the last
Festival au Désert in Timbuktu in 2012. In 2017, the Ali Farka Touré Band (which had formed in 2014) played as part of the
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after their long separation. The cover of the album "Djitoumou" from which this title comes seems to have inspired the scene of the film in which we can hear "Bèrèbèrè", in the heart of a lively market.
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features the song "Bèrèbèrè". The title "Bèrèbèrè" – meaning "to help each other" in
Bambara – Malian guitarist and singer Idrissa Soumaoro illustrates the moment when T'Challa and Nakia walk in the
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and has stated that, “The first time I heard John Lee Hooker, I heard his music but I said ‘I don’t understand this, where did they come up with this culture? This is something that belongs to us.”
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Records. His nickname, "Farka", chosen by his parents, means "donkey", an animal admired for its tenacity and stubbornness: "Let me make one thing clear. I'm the donkey that nobody climbs on!"
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in the category "Best
Contemporary World Music Album". The panel of experts from the World Music Chart Europe (WMCE), a chart voted by the leading World Music specialists around Europe, chose
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of Mali. He said that he had always wanted to bring people home, but did not know how to do that, and that now that this festival had been organised, he would support it; he would be their "
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as their Album of the Year 2006, with the album topping the chart for three consecutive months (September to
November 2006). The album has also been listed as No. 1 in the influential
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Some years after his death, a group of musicians playing in his style performed as the Ali Farka Touré Allstars (2012), and later the Ali Farka Touré Band (formed 2014).
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In 2022 the Texan trio Khruangbin have teamed up with Malian singer and guitarist Vieux Farka Touré for 'Ali', a semi-improvised tribute to his father Ali Farka Touré.
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Some of Touré's songs and tunes have been used in different programmes, films and documentaries. For instance, his guitar riff on the song "Diaraby", from the album
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in 1956 that would influence Touré to pursue a career in music. It was the guitar playing during this performance that made Ali determined to learn the instrument.
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program, and was retained by popular demand when put to a vote of the listeners. This song is likewise used in 1998 as a soundtrack for the film
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1241:"Ali Farka Touré, Grammy-Winning Musician of West Africa, Dies"
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it provoked an extraordinary reaction from his listeners.
2007:. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi.
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Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey
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1361:"100 Greatest Guitarists: David Fricke's Picks"
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1525:"Obituary: Ali Farka Toure"
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1799:30 November
1588:26 November
1563:26 November
1535:26 November
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1485:26 November
1041:Marc Huraux
1030:Filmography
829:Discography
798:Niger River
785:Greenlights
708:to "Ai Du".
692:Rob Stewart
588:bone cancer
550:BBC Radio 3
473:Afel Bocoum
395:British DJ
376:community.
374:world music
266:French Army
246:Niger River
197:singer and
183:Ali Ibrahim
140:World music
128:Malian Folk
2109:Categories
1937:19 October
1690:1 December
1402:9 November
1346:3 February
1226:References
1176:Nominated
1128:Nominated
943:Radio Mali
917:The Source
714:Unfaithful
706:air guitar
688:Sharkwater
670:The Source
546:Metacritic
418:Seán Keane
381:Radio Mali
254:Tombouctou
240:Early life
75:1939-10-31
60:Birth name
2070:NPR Music
1749:Bbc.co.uk
1583:Songlines
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1428:Biography
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922:Taj Mahal
908:The River
822:Hawa Dolo
818:Kadi Kadi
747:Ry Cooder
738:The World
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645:L'Assedio
632:The World
515:godfather
459:Ry Cooder
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350:, mostly
327:music of
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187:Ali Farka
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1955:Archived
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1322:Archived
1278:Archived
1209:See also
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1023:Voyageur
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324:Bulgaria
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195:Malian
168:Labels
162:Njarka
158:Cabasa
154:Guitar
150:Vocals
120:Genres
115:, Mali
113:Bamako
98:, Mali
92:Origin
1082:Ref.
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191:Touré
124:Blues
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