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quarta-feira, 15 de março de 2006

RECENTEMENTE MORREU ALI FARKA TOURE, PERDEMOS UN XIGANTE


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We’ve lost a giant.  Immodest, brilliant, inscrutable, and luminous, Ali Farka Toure has died in Mali, after a long battle with cancer.  Born in Kanau, Mali, Ali always remained loyal to the desert north, its peoples, traditions, music and mysteries.  Music entranced him from youth, but his noble bloodline never allowed him to embrace it as a profession without misgivings.  In discussing his recent collaboration with kora player and griot Toumani Diabate, Ali always pointed out that Toumani was a real musician, as if somehow, he was just hanging in there.  That didn’t stop the CD, In the Heart of the Moon, from winning a Grammy Award this year, Ali’s second in a long, remarkable career.  Read more

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