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Sidi Touré (born 1959, Gao, Northern Mali) is a singer/songwriter from Bamako, Mali. His music is a type of songhaï blues. He started his carrier in the Sonhaï Stars, a regional orchestra. In 1984 he won the Award of best singer with a song of his own hand at a Mali National Bienale. He won the same price again in 1986.In 1992 he collaborated with Kassemady Diabaté.
Sidi Touré is outside Mali mainly known for his appearance in the Take-Away Shows serie of Vincent Moon. Moon filmed the Malian musician during his trip in Mali.
Ten years after his first album, Sidi Touré has just recorded his next album “Koïma”. For this album, Sidi played with great musicians as one master of the so kou (violin) Zumana Tereta, Oumar Konaté a twenty years old guitar virtuoso, Charles Oldman, bassist and more in M.A.N, The Floating Roots Orchestra,….
Through this 10 songs, this 10 pearls, Sidi Touré revisit Songhaï Folklore and give us a masterly album in which you can hear blues, folk, pop, jazz, holley (songhaï “voodoo”),…
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