Daby toure biography of martin

          The hall may be empty, but Daby Touré fills the space with his magnetic presence.!

          Daby Touré’s story goes back two generations and has a fairy tale beginning.

          Daby Touré, Mauretanian singer, at Cines del Sur Date, Source.

        1. Daby Touré, Mauretanian singer, at Cines del Sur Date, Source.
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        3. The hall may be empty, but Daby Touré fills the space with his magnetic presence.
        4. Daby joined Peter on stage for a couple of the Back to Front shows in , including the second night in London in October , where this picture was taken.
        5. Mauritanian musician Daby Toure plays guitar as he leads his band during the Apollo Theater / World Music Institute's fifth annual 'Africa Now!'.

          6. Once upon a time, there were four brothers who lived in a village near Kayes, in what is now the modern state of Mali. They were all shoemakers and leather workers and they strived to sustain the old traditional family trade by turning the skins of crocodiles from the nearby river into shoes, bags, pouches and wallets.

          But for some reason, perhaps drought or excessive hunting, the crocodile population began to fall dramatically and the family were no longer able to live from their craft.

          The brothers decided to disperse to the four winds and they never saw each other again.

          One of them, Daby Touré, went to live near Zinguinchor in Casamance, the southernmost province of Senegal, where he married four wives and produced a large brood of children. For reasons that no one has ever been able to really explain, this new Toure generation was touched by a deep love and gift for music.

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