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Daby Toure

As a youngster, Daby Toure would get together with friends to bang out rhythms on old tins, canisters and cardboard boxes and entertain his village in Mauritania.  Eventually he taught himself to play his father’s guitars and began discovering the exotic joys of western pop music, thanks to radio, pirated cassettes and the occasional TV broadcast.  The Police, Dire Straights, Bob Marley, Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson were powerful formative influences. Later, when his father received an invitation from his younger brothers to join their group Toure Kunda in Paris, he took the eighteen-year-old Daby with him.  Music began to take over Daby Toure’s life at that time.

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Daby Toure 7/21/05: Daby Toure

Daby Toure of Mauritania writes his own material, and is a virtual one-man band, layering his own guitar, bass and percussion parts, with his wide-ranging vocals. First U.S. tour

Daby Toure

Daby Toure of Mauritania writes his own material, and is a virtual one-man band, layering his own guitar, bass and percussion parts, with his wide-ranging vocals. First U.S. tour

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