Ali Farka Toure, the Grammy Award-winning musical legend from Mali, has died after a long illness. He was 66. The singer-guitarist gained international fame from his 1994 collaboration with Ry Cooder ...

Vieux Farka Touré’s father had other plans for him. The elder Touré, the late, legendary Malian musician Ali Farka Touré, wanted his son to be a soldier. “I come from a family that is traditionally a ...

These days the genre of desert blues boasts one of the most vibrant music movements around the world. The bands and musicians that are part of this genre come from an area that is spread across ...

Two-time Grammy Award-winning African musical giant Ali Farka Toure of Mali died Tuesday after a long illness, Mali's Culture Ministry announced. He was in his late 60s. Two-time Grammy Award winner ...

NOVATO, CALIF. — The lush, affluent hills of Marin County provide a stark counterpoint to the dry expanse of Mali, the landlocked West African nation as rich in music as it is poor in resources. But ...

Since he’s now retired from professional music, we have to take what we can get of famed Malian blues musician Ali Farka Toure. On the double-disc Red & Green, Nonesuch—the label that generously ...

I like Ali Farka Touré‘s (RIP) 2006 album “Savane“. I first listened to it when I realized it was, according to Metacritic, the most critically acclaimed album of 2006. It’s a nice gift too – it even ...

Ali Farka Toure, a giant among African musicians and known for drawing a connection between American blues and indigenous guitar music of Mali, died at his home in Mali Tuesday. He was 66. Toure had ...

On Monday, October 21, 2013, LEAF Festival and LEAF Schools & Streets invite the community to an Educational Informance by Vieux Farka Touré at The Orange Peel. The show will include a musical ...

When Malian guitarist and singer Ali Farka Touré won a Grammy for his 1994 collaboration with Ry Cooder, Talking Timbuktu, his reputation as the “African John Lee Hooker” spread worldwide. But Touré ...

Before the blues arrived in the Mississippi Delta, it lived in the desert of Mali, West Africa, and was known by a different name. The sound of Ali Farka Toure was like the DNA that proved the ...

African multi-instrumentalist Ali Farka Touré had become a legend by the time he died in 2006. His music was used in a song for “Black Panther,” and he was thought of as a pioneer of African desert ...